An opening date for Stoddard's
Pushed back several times, the gastropub is now slated to open Nov. 17. Stoddard's Fine Food and Ale is on Temple Place in Downtown Crossing. The menu, developed by Mark Cina of Ivy, is meant to be booze-friendly. Dishes such as house-made charcuterie, oysters, burgers, chicken pot pie, and hanger steak complement an impressive list of beer (140 different brews!) and historic cocktails. Bartenders will mix the drinks with house-made block ice, a la Drink. (And with Sasha Petraske's role in the upcoming W Hotel bar, Boston's cocktail scene just keeps looking better.)
Stoddard's interior is historic, too. The building, which survived the fire of 1872, is decorated with original wooden clapboards and hammered tin, tricked out with a mahogany bar, an old safe, a shoe shine stand, and more.
Dinner is served Tues-Sun until 1 a.m., and there's a Sunday cask ale brunch for $24.
There's also an invitation-only gentlemen's club on Fridays on the lower level. Girls keep out! No ovaries allowed! Gents: Does this seem appealing, or juvenile? I'm under the impression that men sallying out for beverages on a Friday evening often prefer to have the company of women, but maybe I'm wrong about that.
At any rate, for those who expected the long-awaited Lord Hobo to be the area's next beer bar, think again. It looks like the long-awaited Stoddard's could qualify instead. It's a race to the finish.
This is a great idea, and nice to memorialize Stoddard's too (though they're quite active now in Nonantum).
Sounds like the ladies will be standing right outside that "gentleman's club"... and scheming to rewrite the weekly room scheduling to their advantage.
In 1868, a gentleman's club in Boston would have excluded women, Catholics, Jews, Irish, and anyone who wasn't white. So why not go all the way and re-create what would have been? Oh, it isn't acceptable to discriminate anymore... except in the case of women?
Disgusting.
There's nothing wrong w having a men only night, and it sounds like a cool idea. It's no different than having "ladies' night" where females pay less, etc, though I'm sure many will take offense the idea.
The Men's Night is put in place to block buzz-killers just like BelmontReader.
I agree with Area Man- with all of the Ladie's Nights in the city with reduced/no cover and/or free drinks for the ladies, why not have a Men's Night? Fair is Fair.
And I can't wait to get to Stoddard's to drink some Cask Ales!
YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!
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