The Biggest Balls Award
by
MC Slim JB
| October 03, 2011
We're
pleased that Saint, the once-sizzling Copley Square Hotel nightclub
owned by Brian
Lesser,
got an overdue makeover. The new incarnation, Storyville
(90 Exeter Street, Boston, 617.236.1134), has fantastic atmosphere,
evoking a French Quarter bordello, and a powerhouse opening team:
former Sel de la Terre chef Louis DiBiccari and craft-cocktail maven
English Bill Codman (ex-Woodward). But Storyville is also the name of
Boston's most historic jazz club, which in this exact location in
the 1940s provided a stage for many of America's greatest jazz
luminaries. The new Storyville had better live up to that epic
history, or Lesser will have to answer to the ghosts of Louis
Armstrong, Charlie Parker, and Billie Holiday.