The owner of Red Face Jack’s Pub has hired a Boston lawyer who is an expert in the state’s liquor license law to represent him in an appeal of a suspension his restaurant served last summer. The appeal of a two-day license suspension with five days held in abeyance for overserving alcohol is scheduled for…
In dominating the city’s liquor license scene, the law firm of McDermott, Quilty & Miller has lots to celebrate. The rest of us? Not so much. On a Wednesday morning in September, attorney Dennis Quilty stepped before the three members of the Boston Licensing Board on behalf of Noche, a Latin-themed restaurant planned for the…
What could be obtained for free from the city of Boston several years ago and sold today for as much as $250,000? An all-alcohol pouring license in the Back Bay. That’s the high-water mark for licenses purchased by McCarthy’s Bar and Grill, Vinny Testa’s and Planet Hollywood (which has since dumped a Boston location), according…