Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Hennessy's on Union Street has closed, but is not going gentle into that bad night:
Hibernation is a term that invokes a pleasantness, nothing about this decision is pleasant. Our wings have been clipped by new regulations put forth on our industry. Closing for the winter is our form of a tourniquet, slowing the bleed so that we can open again in the Spring.
WCVB reports a woman expecting a ride from a Union Street bar to her Allston home instead wound up kidnapped and taken someplace north of the city early this morning - she escaped when the guy stopped at a gas station for some snacks and she kicked out a window.
Live Boston reports manholes exploded on Union, North and Thacher streets and took out power in the North End early this morning. Read more.
UPDATE: Board rules no violation, but orders bar to file written plan to ensure something like this doesn't happen again.
A worker at the White Bull Tavern on Union Street today apologized to his boss and the Boston Licensing Board for an April incident in which he was only trying to do a woman a favor. Read more.
UPDATE: Found alive in Charlestown.
NBC Boston reports on the disappearance of Olivia Ambrose, 23, a new Jamaica Plain resident last seen outside Hennessy's on Union Street around 11 p.m., Saturday.
Police say they are continuing to look for three men for a savage beating at Paddy O's, 33 Union St., in August, that left a doorman with possible permanent scars. Read more.
Union Oyster smoke. Photo by Steph Giunta.
Around 8:30 p.m. at the nation's oldest restaurant, on Union Street. WBZ reports Boston firefighters quickly extinguished the fire.
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