A room too many
By Inside Track | Friday, June 19, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | The Inside Track
Photo by Matthew West
Boston bar baron John Hauck knows that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but the owner of The Living Room on Atlantic Avenue was none to happy to read about the new W hotel’s new lobby bar called - you guessed it - The Living Room!
“I was knocked off my chair,” Hauck told the Track . “Then I looked at their Web site and saw they were going to do signature cocktails and board games. I already do signature cocktails and board games!”
Hauck said he has penned a letter to Starwood Hotels asking them to change the name of the lobby bar in the Boston W, which is due to open in the Theater District in the fall, after reading about the plans in yesterday’s Boring Broadsheet.
“I’m hoping we can settle it like gentlemen, since I was here first,” said Hauck, who has had the waterfront-area Living Room since 2002, when he changed the name from Atlantic 101 .
W GM Bill Bunce was unavailable yesterday, however a spokesgal referred us to the W Web sites where we learned that every hotel in the chain calls its lobby bar The Living Room.
Do stay tuned . . . .
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