The Boston Licensing Board voted today for a three-day license suspension at the Silhouette Lounge, 200 Brighton Ave. in Allston, but to hold that in abeyance for six months, after BPD licensing cops found five people under 21 drinking – three of them just 19.
The vote means that should the bar get nabbed for something else over the next six months, it will have to shut for three days.
At a hearing Tuesday, police said that one of the five presented an older person’s valid license to get a drink. The other four used fake IDs with their names and photos on them, a detective said.
Board members agreed that while the current ownership, which took over the watering hole in 2021, had not previously had any problems, but said the number of people caught and the fact that, as board member Liam Curran said, they were not just a few weeks away from their 21st birthdays, but were “well under age” merited a sterner possible punishment than the written warning the bar might otherwise have gotten.