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| 416.1 | who's abusing whom ? | REGINA::OSMAN | and silos to fill before I feep, and silos to fill before I feep | Fri Dec 12 1986 10:52 | 15 |
| 416.2 | The only thing that's changed is the customers. | SWSNOD::RPGDOC | Dennis the Menace | Fri Dec 12 1986 16:02 | 22 |
| 416.3 | | NAC::MCCRORY | | Mon Dec 15 1986 17:37 | 30 |
| 416.4 | It would be different if I _was_ Obese | WITNES::MACONE | It's the story of a man named Brady | Fri Nov 18 1988 08:10 | 9 |
| 416.5 | Just my opinion | ACTVAX::SCHWINDT | KDF;LAKSDJ | Fri Nov 18 1988 09:40 | 8 |
| 416.6 | it's New England hospitality :-) | BUFFER::PCORMIER | No good deed goes unpunished | Fri Nov 18 1988 10:37 | 6 |
| 416.7 | All the atmosphere of an oil refinery | HOONOO::PESENTI | JP | Mon Nov 21 1988 08:27 | 18 |
| 416.8 | | WITNES::MACONE | It's the story of a man named Brady | Wed Nov 23 1988 08:24 | 13 |
| 416.9 | What's in a name | NEST::CESARIO | Vinyl Dinosaur | Fri Oct 02 1992 16:59 | 21 |
| 416.10 | | MILPND::J_TOMAO | | Mon Oct 05 1992 13:57 | 36 |
| 416.11 | Ancient history | PHONES::KOTOK | Alan Kotok, DTN 226-7681 | Mon Oct 05 1992 16:42 | 18 |
| 416.12 | | PEEVAX::QUODLING | OLIVER is the Solution! | Mon Oct 05 1992 22:58 | 18 |
| 416.13 | | TOPDOC::AHERN | Dennis the Menace | Tue Oct 06 1992 22:06 | 11 |
| 416.14 | I want dessert! | DSSDEV::PENDAK | | Wed Oct 07 1992 12:33 | 11 |
| 416.15 | | SSGV01::CHALMERS | More power! | Mon Oct 12 1992 14:06 | 20 |
| 416.16 | | SOFBAS::SULLIVAN | | Mon Oct 12 1992 15:47 | 21 |
| 416.17 | Update? | NETCAD::MORRISON | Bob M. LKG2-A/R5 226-7570 | Mon Mar 10 1997 17:09 | 7 |
| Any more recent reports on Durgin Park?
The last time I was there, which was 18 years ago, there was no dining room
on first floor. What is the first floor dining room like now? Is it more like
the old Durgin Park?
It sounds like the second floor is totally unlike the old Durgin Park.
How are the serving sizes now? The idea of going away hungry from a Durgin
Park meal would have been unthinkable before 1980.
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| 416.18 | | NETCAD::MORRISON | Bob M. LKG2-A/R5 226-7570 | Mon Mar 10 1997 17:13 | 3 |
| Two more questions: Do they take reservations? (Also unthinkable in the old
days) Is there a long line waiting to be seated at Saturday lunch and dinner
time?
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| 416.19 | Basically the same old place | SMURF::RODGERS | Nothing is written. | Thu Mar 13 1997 11:50 | 12 |
| I was there not too long ago (maybe about 6 months ago) and I don't recall
seeing a first-floor dinig room. We were seated upstairs, which looked to me
like it hadn't changed since the 70s (which was when I had been there last).
Portions are stilll good, but not as big as they were in the seventies. The
menu is still the same, including the Indian Pudding (which was as good as
always, if you like that sort of thing).
Same seating arrangements.
Waitresses were a bit less surly but still frazzled, as the lines to get in
wound around the lower-level lobby and out the door.
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| 416.20 | DP has(had) 3 levels, each very different | AOSG::CHALMERS | | Thu Mar 13 1997 12:41 | 17 |
| Haven't been there in approx 1 year, but the setup I recall at Durgin's
was:
1st floor: raw bar
2nd floor: traditional DP
3rd floor: more upscale, with etched glass, tablecloth and candles
We were hosting some out-of-town guests and they tried to put us on the
3rd floor. We went up, took one look around, and said "no thanks". We
wanted them to experience the true DP...crowded tables, surley waitstaff,
noise and commotion, not to mention good food and a good time. So we
waited 20 minutes to be seated in the 'regular' area. Over the course
of the evening, we watched as they attempted to seat others upstairs.
Easily 75% of them did as we had done...went up, looked around, came
back down and waited for a table to open up on the 2nd floor.
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| 416.21 | | SMURF::BINDER | Errabit quicquid errare potest. | Fri Mar 14 1997 12:20 | 9 |
| I'm not sure I comprehend why people want to be treated rudely. We
almost ate there once, years ago, but fortunately declined to eat in a
place where the air was so thick with a miasma of tobacco smoke and its
accompanying putrid odor that I came near to coughing my lungs out
before we could turn around and depart.
Is it still as disgusting as that, or have they decided that being
surly is enough and there's no need to poison the clientele at the same
time?
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| 416.22 | | SMURF::LARRY | | Fri Mar 14 1997 13:07 | 6 |
| I have not been there for ages either but do not remember it being a
bad experience. I think we went during off hours. Was not smokey
(smelling smoke drives me crazy too). We were not treated rudely. I think
the latter is exaggerated a bit. ... and the food was ok too.
my experience anyway,
Larry
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| 416.23 | | NETCAD::MORRISON | Bob M. LKG2-A/R5 226-7570 | Fri Mar 14 1997 13:58 | 10 |
| Thanks for explaining the new setup. As far as I know, there was no third
floor in the old days. (The floor was there, but not part of DP.) And thanks
for the tip about insisting on 2nd floor.
Re surly waitresses: It's not just surliness per se, but a certain style
of surliness which is hard to describe. And about the smoke: I feel that this
is part of the experience too, as long as it doesn't reach suffocating levels.
In the old days, they blew in plenty of fresh air on all but the coldest days,
so it wasn't a big problem.
If low levels of smoke bother you, then the 2nd floor of DP is not a good
place to go.
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| 416.24 | 3rd floor since at least the early 80s | DUNKLE::MCDERMOTT | Chris McDermott - Software Janitorial Services | Thu Apr 03 1997 16:37 | 17 |
| I bussed tables there in college. At that time the third floor dining room
was there, but it was largley unknown to the general public. You needed
reservations which most people never new to ask for. Most often the diners
were state government officials or other Beacon Hill type muckity-mucks.
Even then the 3rd floor was much more genteel. They would only let the
younger, attractive, polite waitresses work that room. The battle-hags were
relegated to the lower levels.
FYI:
Basemen - Pub.
1st floor - Raw Bar
2nd floor - dinning room (common tables, not always totaly pleasent,
but never boring)
3rd floor - dinning room (private tables, cloth table coverings,
pleasent but boring)
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