Boston Bans Bottle Service
This kind of made me smirk. I personally think bottle service belongs where money, stupid, and ego intersect. Which in Boston, is at the few wanna-be NYC bars that hold needless lines and pound awful music for our North-Shore friends to grind to. So needless to say, I am not exactly shedding any tears over this.
The party is coming to an end for Grey Goose-swilling big shots as the city’s licensing czar says he’s banning “bottle service,” an expensive perk that draws high-rollers to Hub hotspots.
The service – a staple in exclusive nightclubs from Miami to Manhattan to Las Vegas – allows big spenders to have private VIP tables in exchange for purchasing a bottle of high-end booze, usually for $300 or more. Servers bring buckets of ice, tumblers and non-alcoholic mixers to make cocktails.
Although, I did get a kick out of this quote.
“We’re not New York and we’re not South Beach,” he said. “The city of Boston has a lot more to offer than just getting people inebriated. If all they can offer their clientele is just swilling down alcohol, then perhaps they shouldn’t be in the business.”
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