In Boston, it's not just enough to pay for a food-serving license - you actually have to serve food. And not just any food, but food you've cooked or prepared on your own premises.
The owner of Croke Park, 268 West Broadway, assured the Boston Licensing Board today he would put in a food-prep area and start serving simple sandwiches, such as BLTs, after police cited him for having a food-serving license but not having a kitchen or food-prep area on premises.
Croke Park patrons have long relied on "take-in" food from the neighboring Burger King or two nearby pizza places. The pickles and potato chips bartenders have at the ready were not enough to satisfy license requirements.
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Close it down and put in a fern bar
By downtown-anon
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 1:39pm
Those gentrifiers want everything. How long has it operated like this? Is this just the out come of new people coming in and dropping a dime on them? Or did they just recently apply for food-serving license?
They always had a food license...
By OFSouthie
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 1:49pm
But until now, a vending machine sufficed.
Fern Bar?
By anon
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 3:01pm
How quaint!
Do you have to wear dockers to get in?
Strict Dress Code for the Fern Bar
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 3:38pm
Izod shirt - collar pop optional
Madras shorts in summer or dockers in winter
Tretorn sneakers or Sperry Topsiders - NO SOCKS
Ralph Lauren Polo cologne for men, Estee Lauder White Linen for women.
Wayfarers or, if prescription glasses, horn rims
Sweaters must be tied around your neck.
What year is it in that bar?
By Fred Flintstone
Mon, 02/19/2018 - 2:15am
What year is it in that bar?
But Cheers?
By Parkwayne
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 4:57pm
But our greatest cultural touchstone*. Cheers. was a fern barn.
* this may be inaccurate.
Heggies
By Ari O
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 1:39pm
There's a law in Minnesota that bars have to serve food. Enter Heggies: they give you a little electric oven (maybe gas? who knows) and a bunch of frozen pizza, problem solved. Now it has a cult following.
The person I want to meet is the one who walks into Whitey's and
By MC Slim JB
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 1:57pm
thinks, "Yeah, this looks like a great place to get something to eat!"
That comment reminds me of Peter's Pizza and Fried Clams
By roadman
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 4:52pm
which used to be on the southbound side of Route 107 in Revere where it crosses the Rummey Marsh.
When they constructed the great sand pile that was supposed to carry I-95 across the Marsh (and imploded about 15 years later), the state bought up several businesses and demolished them. For years afterward, Peters was the only business on the west side of the Marsh that remained standing.
It was a not so well kept secret that Peter's was a front for less than legal activities, as evidenced by the lack of visible customers anytime you passed by it, despite it being brightly lit inside. One night, my brother's friends stopped there about 2 am, went inside, and asked for a pizza and a bucket of fried clams. The person behind the counter reportedly replied "Get the f@@k out of here."
Haha
By Will LaTulippe
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 4:38pm
I pass by Regal Pizza in Mattapan every time I cut through on my way to visit the place my buddy manages in Dorchester. Lit up, and not a human to be found.
Uh Oh
By Coyote137
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 2:07pm
Does this mean the Tam will have to start serving up BLTs and fries?
Bar Food
By Kate Sullivan
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 2:41pm
What was the name of the bar with the sandwich under glass which they wouldn't sell?
When I was a kid
By anon
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 3:26pm
Bars served pickled eggs and pistachio nuts. Yuppies today want everything.
I'm sure somebody has both those things
By Will LaTulippe
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 3:39pm
The eggs are $4 a pop and the nuts come in a tray with two other varieties of nut for $7.
I don't see pickled eggs much anymore, but
By MC Slim JB
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 4:06pm
there are plenty of retro-feeling bar snacks around. I think The Automatic does a nice job of it, and the place even has your grampa's basement rec-room wood paneling. Love that Frito Pie from Hell.
Holy crap
By Will LaTulippe
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 4:10pm
Those prices are legit for 2018. How have I never heard of this place?
Also, thank you for sticking the Pointer Sisters in my head.
I nominated its "messy" hot dog for The Improper's
By MC Slim JB
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 4:29pm
best-of issue's best hot dog last summer, and it won. Great team: Dave Cagle running the bar, Chris Schelsinger the kitchen.
(I don't get the Pointer Sisters reference.)
No way to control it
By Will LaTulippe
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 4:31pm
It's totally Automatic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qvTFnLwWOM
Oh Geez Lueeez
By anon
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 5:33pm
Now I'm having flashbacks to driving one of my parents' '76 Corollas on I-205 - the sedan had the FM radio.
Ooops
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 8:10pm
That was mine - I wondered why it didn't appear immediately.
Relax
By Yuppie
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 11:43pm
You're telling me yuppies are ruining the established south boston watering hole known as croke park? The premier dining and drinking experience on west broadway? Had yuppies known it was such a fantastic environment for cocktails I'm sure management wouldn't have to advertise 'Full Shots' on the side on the building.
I remember when d street, gin
By Fred Flintstone
Mon, 02/19/2018 - 2:25am
I remember when d street, gin mills and chronic alcoholics sleeping in the weeds of empty lots were the defining elements of West Broadway. Boston has lost all of it's texture, a shame really.
Does this apply to clubs also?
By redlinerider
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 10:44pm
Legitimately wondering, does this apply to clubs that serve alcohol too? If I'm at Royale or whatever other dance club, can I expect to order a sandwich or some other food? I somehow don't envision someone eating a chicken-salad sandwich when they're gettin down to Rihanna.
Not versed on the code, but I imagine there's a
By MC Slim JB
Wed, 02/14/2018 - 12:12am
difference between the typical "common victualer's license" and the one given to nightclubs and other venues just to serve alcohol. I do know that it takes a special entertainment license to allow dancing, because we all know what that leads to: the embarrassing spectacle of White-Guy Overbite, which should be tightly limited wherever possible.
They said it best
By David Day
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 8:21am
"Whether you like pizza, subs, or the sweet taste of Burger King, food tastes better in Whitey’s. "
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