# Medieval Manor is Closing! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 20, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medieval-manor-is-closing/738075 "2015-11-20T14:26:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medieval-manor-is-closing/738075/1 "2015-11-20T14:26:33Z")
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. [http://www.boston.com/food-dining/2015/10/15/boston-medieval-manor-restaurant-will-close-the-end-the-year/hapIe1EEyvNi8bUjpOGvIJ/story.html](http://www.boston.com/food-dining/2015/10/15/boston-medieval-manor-restaurant-will-close-the-end-the-year/hapIe1EEyvNi8bUjpOGvIJ/story.html) It seems like the longstanding weird iconic institutions in the area are biting the dust lately. We just lost the miniature Golf Course with the Fluorescent Orange T. Rex (with fluorescent green eyes) at the end of last month after 57 years. [http://theorangedinosaur.com/](http://theorangedinosaur.com/) > **[Route 1 Orange Dinosaur Facing Extinction](https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/route-1-orange-dinosaur-mini-golf/)** > > The Route 1 Miniature Golf and Batting Cages has been sold to a developer, according to a report. 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: > **[Weylu's on Route 1 Is Being Torn Down Right Now](https://boston.eater.com/2015/9/16/9336657/weylus-route-1-saugus-demolished)** > > The grandiose palace of a Chinese restaurant is the latest iconic casualty in Saugus. 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. > **[Hilltop Steakhouse is gone, but the cactus is staying - The Boston Globe](https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2015/04/14/hilltop-steakhouse-gone-but-cactus-staying/MGGmX6oI4UawLIazbrB4dJ/story.html)** > > The giant cactus that greeted patrons at Hilltop Steakhouse is staying put. The developer “recognizes that the cactus is such an iconic item that he couldn’t do any better than to re-use it,” Saugus Historical Commission Chairman Stephen Carlson told... 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. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medieval-manor-is-closing/738075/2 "2015-11-20T14:31:29Z")
I’ve actually been there! It also had different food from the other places as well. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medieval-manor-is-closing/738075/3 "2015-11-20T15:15:44Z")
Holy cow - I’ve still got my souvenir glass from a visit 30 years ago. I had no idea they were still open. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medieval-manor-is-closing/738075/4 "2015-11-20T16:28:31Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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. > > [http://www.boston.com/food-dining/2015/10/15/boston-medieval-manor-restaurant-will-close-the-end-the-year/hapIe1EEyvNi8bUjpOGvIJ/story.html](http://www.boston.com/food-dining/2015/10/15/boston-medieval-manor-restaurant-will-close-the-end-the-year/hapIe1EEyvNi8bUjpOGvIJ/story.html) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medieval-manor-is-closing/738075/5 "2015-11-20T16:45:06Z")
I’m surprised. I would have thought that the rise of nerdy culture would have been good for MM. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medieval-manor-is-closing/738075/6 "2015-11-20T16:47:33Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medieval-manor-is-closing/738075/7 "2015-11-20T16:58:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medieval-manor-is-closing/738075/8 "2015-11-20T17:12:50Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > 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. Yeah, and Hooters is for people who love owls. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medieval-manor-is-closing/738075/9 "2015-11-21T16:14:18Z")
I had no idea Medieval Manor still existed. I think it used to be on Comm Ave. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medieval-manor-is-closing/738075/10 "2015-11-21T19:08:54Z")
Well, I for one feel grateful there is a restaurant chain devoted to some of my ethnicities, \*[Tilted Kilt describes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilted_Kilt_Pub_%26_Eatery) itself as “a modern American, Irish, Scottish, and English sports pub” \*Judging by the pictures on Google it looks a fine place indeed, indeed.