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Downtown steakhouse coming out of pandemic slumber

By adamg on Tue, 10/11/2022 - 10:45am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Boston Chops on Temple Place, which closed at the onset of the pandemic, has started advertising for help

Neighborhoods: 
Downtown
Topics: 
Dining
Free tagging: 
Downtown Crossing
Temple Place
Steak


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Comments

By _Sean on Tue, 10/11/2022 - 11:28am.

I'm totally shocked that place is reopening. I went there once pre-pandemic and it's a bizarre space for a higher-end steakhouse. For one thing, there are ZERO windows so at best you feel like you're eating in some dance club and at worst it feels like a strip club. The neon lighting doesn't help, either. The seating is awful (tiny row tables packed way-too-close together for a steakhouse) and when I went on a Sat. night at 8pm, the place was only 60% full. In no way is this location like their original Sound End spot.

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By ScottB on Tue, 10/11/2022 - 4:28pm.

They're both in former bank lobbies.

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By anon on Tue, 10/11/2022 - 1:35pm.

Par for the course of all of DTX, Temple Place is a very scuzzy looking street nowadays. A far cry from the days of the original Stoddard's Cutlery (not the restaurant that now bears it's name), Windsor Button Shop, RH Stearns, Bailey's and even a big joke shop. I forget the name of it because they all had such similar names (Jacks Joke Shop, Little Jack Horner, etc). There was also a joke shop on Bromfield and one at Boylston and Tremont.

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By Scratchie on Wed, 10/12/2022 - 8:52am.

I think the joke shop on Temple was Jack & Jill's.

Whatever happened to the joke shop industry?

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By fungwah on Wed, 10/12/2022 - 8:57am.

n/t

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By GoSoxGo on Wed, 10/12/2022 - 11:32am.

would be my guess (I remember the joke shop on the corner of Charles St. and Boylston from when I was young, but remember both 'Jack' joke shops.)

One of the joke shops' signs was stored on Dot Ave. across from Gillette World Shaving HQ for many years.

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By Don't Panic on Wed, 10/12/2022 - 11:30pm.

Well that's good. Without a joke shop nearby we won't have to worry about any rubber steaks or dribble glasses. A steak house with no windows though; Now that's a different kind of joke.

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