New Pour House will be the same as the old Pour House, proposed new owner says

When the Pour House re-opens with a caller manager, it volition beryllium precisely the aforesaid arsenic patrons retrieve from the Before Times, an lawyer for the projected caller liquor-license holder told the Boston Licensing Board today.

"We're not reinventing the instrumentality here," lawyer Jon Aieta told the board, which has to determine whether to fto the erstwhile owners, who unopen the Boylston Street barroom astatine the commencement of the pandemic past year, merchantability their liquor licence to landlord Charles Talanian. Talanian successful crook would fundamentally lease the abstraction to a absorption radical headed by projected caller Pour House General Manager Charles Hitchcock, which would support the aforesaid hours, the aforesaid breakfast, luncheon and meal offerings and adjacent the aforesaid tables and chairs.

At a proceeding today, the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay asked the committee to defer immoderate ballot until aft Talanian meets with the radical connected Dec. 6.

Talanian was already a portion proprietor of the interest that had tally the Pour House for 34 years until it unopen successful March, 2020 and declared bankruptcy. According to bankruptcy-court records, a caller interest owned by Talanian volition acquisition the bar's liquor licence and its different assets - including each the worldly that was connected the walls close up until the time it closed - for $500,000.

Pour House was a portion of a enactment of longstanding Boylston Street bars, each of which unopen arsenic the pandemic worsened. Plans are present successful the enactment to re-open Lir, for which Talanian is buying the liquor licence from the shuttered Marliave downtown, and McGreevy's, which, however, volition re-open arsenic an upscale "scratch" kitchen.