In the latest in a series of long-time Boston Institutions disappearing, Medieval Manor has announced that it will be shutting its doors at the end of the year. It’s been around for 40 years.
Just a month earlier, the former Weylu’s Chinese Palace, an enormous structure on a hillside just opposite the Dinosaur on Route 1 also got torn down. It has been three different restaurants, and they wanted to make a comedy club or something out of it:
This comes a year after the loss of Hilltop Steak House on Route 1, with its giant illuminated cactus. The restaurant’s gone, but the cactus is still there.
Now Medieval Manor is going. They had pseudo-Medieval feasts there with no utensils and an audience-participation bawdy show. Unlike similar venues elsewhere, Medieval Manor didn’t feature horseback jousting. The best you would get was audience members “jousting” with long loaves of french bread clasped suggestively between their legs.
Fortunately, we still have Kowloon’s giant Polynesian Hut, Prince Restaurant’s Leaning Tower of Pizza, and The Ship restaurant in the shape of – well – a ship, and the Christmas Tree shop next door built to look like a New England Fishing Village. So we still have 1950s-vintage idiosyncratically quirky buildings to keep us from becoming too generic, even if MacDonald’s did displace the Full of Bull restaurant and a WalMart went up not far away.
Sure, but a linked article from that page gives the good news!
*The former site of Copperfield’s Bar and Down Under Pub will become home to Boston’s first Tilted Kilt.
The Celtic-themed restaurant chain, which features waitresses in short kilts, will open at the Brookline Avenue location, according to a Boston Eater article. *
Celtic themed! No doubt you’ll be enjoying some hearty lamb stew and listening to harp music while regaled by tales from a woman dressed as Bouddica.
I’ve been to a Tilted Kilt. It ain’t good news. It’s just another chain, rather than a unique-to-the-place restaurant. Forget about Lamb Stew and Boudicca. You’ll get beef stew and sorta school girls in tartan.
I guess I should have added some emoticons in there to reflect my lack-of-seriousness. I was mainly amused by the phrase “Celtic themed” as a description of Hooters-in-Plaid.
Well, I for one feel grateful there is a restaurant chain devoted to some of my ethnicities,
*Tilted Kilt describes itself as “a modern American, Irish, Scottish, and English sports pub”
*Judging by the pictures on Google it looks a fine place indeed, indeed.