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Sorry, gang, Boston bartenders are not allowed to pour booze right down your throat
By adamg on Tue, 10/02/2012 - 12:27pm
A woman with a penchant for Hennessey got a Financial District bar in trouble - and the bartender fired - when she grabbed a bottle of the stuff and stood there as the bartender poured some of its contents into her mouth.
The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday what action, if any, to take against Brandy Pete's, 267 Franklin St., for the Sept. 2 incident - in which the male bartender also went Coyote Ugly and danced on the bar.
As board members looked at a photocopy of a color photo showing a man's hand holding a Hennessey bottle over a woman's open mouth, BPD Sgt. Det. Robert Mulvey explained: "That is an improper method of dispensing alcohol to a patron."
Mark Berkowitz, assistant manager at the venerable bar, acknowledged the hand belonged to a bartender, and that said bartender is no longer employed at Brandy Pete's because of the incident.
Berkowitz and his lawyer said that what happened was that the woman went up to the bar and grabbed the bottle. Rather than just grabbing it back, they said, the bartender agreed to give her a more direct route to the liquid - as one of her friends snapped the photo presented to the board today.
In addition to this incident, the board will also decide whether to sanction the bar for a promoter's ads for "Sip Saturday" on EventBrite that promised bottle service. The bar does not have a license for bottle service, and Berkowitz said the bar has never offered bottle service and that the ad was in error.
The ads now state: "WE DO NOT OFFER BOTTLE SERVICE AT THIS VENUE."
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and you kids...
get off my lawn while you're at it!
Was her name "Humpty"?
Pronounced with a "-umpty"?
They draw the line
at belly shots.
bills bar
they used to have german beer garden type girls (busty blondes) with tanks on their backs filled with booze. for 5 bucks they would come over to the table and stradle you while they pumped a shot of jaggermeister down your throat. it was frickin awesome.
"stay classy (and
"stay classy (and distinguished) Brandy Petes."
You want classy...
I remember one night in NY at The Cock patrons were served shots out of the Columbian go-go boys foreskin; it was his birthday.
A good time to try something new?
A shot of this, perhaps:
Not in the foreskin, please
Not in the foreskin, please
Great image
Can't you just picture him clutching his pearls as he delivered that line?
Speaking of pictures, Adam, you're failing us. Badly. Specifically with regard to licensing hearings.
Yeah!
Definitely need pics.