Rachel Z.
Yelp
I was meeting 3 friends to attend a concert at MGM Music Hall. We don't go to Lansdowne St often. I looked at Google and randomly picked this place to meet because of it's proximity to MGM. I arrived at 6 PM. It was a Tuesday, no events at Fenway, but the general area was still crowded because of the concert. I walked inside to look for my friends but they weren't there yet, so I stepped outside again to look for them. When I went to go back inside, a rude bouncer suddenly appeared and stopped me, and asked for my ID (I am 45!). I said "Oh, sorry. You weren't here when I went in before so I didn't know you were checking IDs". He said "Yes I was". Obviously he wasn't because I was already inside. I should have known something was off about the place because there were only about 20 customers in there, all sitting at the bar. The place was extremely dark while the sun was still out. It was decorated for Halloween the day after Labor Day (early September). Someone else sitting at the bar pointed out that they still had Christmas wreaths hanging on the front walls. It was 90 degrees outside and even hotter inside. No air conditioning. There were two bartenders that I saw, and it took a long time and me waving frantically to finally get a drink. When my friends arrived, I paid for my drink and asked the bartender if it was OK to carry my drink outside to our patio table (where we were going to eat before the concert). He said yes, but then the rude bouncer stopped me again as if I was doing something wrong. He said I wasn't allowed to carry my drink around. I told him I asked the bartender and he said I could. The bouncer took my drink away and put it on a barrel that was in the foyer area and said my server would bring it to me after I was seated. So now I can't see my unattended drink in the doorway and that made me nervous. When a waitress came to our patio table I had to tell her that my drink was left in the doorway area. I didn't want it anymore, even though I had paid for it. We are not large people, but the high top chairs out front were tiny, metal, and had sloped backs so all of us were slipping off. We basically had to stand. Food was not great. The ladies room floors were sticky. I'm sure this place makes money on the college crowd, but as an adult with better options, I would not go back.