Locke-Ober, the 137-year-old genteel eatery that catered to Brahmins, royalty, presidents and even movie stars, closed its glossy black doors this weekend.
A sign posted outside the Winter Place restaurant said it is "closed for business, pending Locke-Ober's sale of its buildings." The note went on to thank our "loyal and valued customers" for years of service, and asked people to "remember the good times." Management could not be reached for comment.
Former Locke-Ober chef Lydia Shire, who stopped being involved in the management of the restaurant in 2009 but told the Herald yesterday she remained affiliated with Locke-Ober, declined to comment last night, telling a Herald reporter, "It's more than a quick answer."
"Psychologically, it's quite a blow," said Boston bartender Jackson Cannon, who owns The Hawthorne and runs Eastern Standard's bar program.
For Cannon and others, Locke-Ober, with its shiny mahogany bar and gleaming sterling silver platters, is a place where elegant waiters served filet mignon.
"We'd gather there to run a finger on the mahogany and emotionally connect," he said.
Launched in the late 1800s by an aspirational Frenchman named Luis Ober, the restaurant's boom times mirror the city's golden days.
Eben Jordan, a founder of the once-powerful Jordan Marsh Co., reportedly loaned Ober the money he needed to open his doors. There was always a table set aside for Jordan Marsh executives, according to the restaurant's website.
Ober's became Locke-Ober's after another entrepreneur opened Locke Wine Shop next door to Ober's eatery, and the two businesses merged. It was a place where the clubby and the discreet mingled. Whenever Harvard lost to Yale, a black sash went up. Stockbrokers were said to rub the toes of a statue for good luck.
Old-timers might remember a time when the dining room was off-limits to women. The old-school eatery finally let "the gentler sex" join the menfolk in the 1970s. Nearly 30 years later, when Shire took over the kitchen she was the first woman to do so.
The place hit the headlines again in 2009, when it stopped serving lunch. The following year, it abandoned its long-held dress code, which stipulated that men must wear jackets in the dining room.
And the rest, as of this weekend, is apparently history.
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