Trip report: Jillian's Boston

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MisspentYouth

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I haven't been here in about 20 odd years, and I am a horrible person, so my view could be biased, but here goes...

You will probably enjoy this place if most of your communicating is done via emoji, if you have a pencil beard and wear an engineer's cap and are in search of a decent craft brew, or if you are a 19 year old Asian looking to ironically bowl and scream really loudly and giggle.

If you have any familiarity with how pool is actually played, you will find yourself wanting to go over to the red-felted, poorly lit tables and take a red chalk and go outside and draw a big red cockandballs on the sidewalk.
 
MisspentYouth said:
I haven't been here in about 20 odd years, and I am a horrible person, so my view could be biased, but here goes...

You will probably enjoy this place if most of your communicating is done via emoji, if you have a pencil beard and wear an engineer's cap and are in search of a decent craft brew, or if you are a 19 year old Asian looking to ironically bowl and scream really loudly and giggle.

If you have any familiarity with how pool is actually played, you will find yourself wanting to go over to the red-felted, poorly lit tables and take a red chalk and go outside and draw a big red cockandballs on the sidewalk.
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We used to have one here, now its a Dave & Busters. It is what it is. Great place to take kids and doesn't make for a horrible date night either. But no, no serious pool allowed. The one by us used to have a private back room 2 Gold Crowns and a dedicates server. I used to go play money matches in there as it was perfect. They no longer have the tables in there though. If you want to be able to drink and play on full size crowns your choices are pretty limited these days so it fits that bill. Also its right next door to the casino so that's not be either.
 
MisspentYouth said:
I haven't been here in about 20 odd years, and I am a horrible person, so my view could be biased, but here goes...

You will probably enjoy this place if most of your communicating is done via emoji, if you have a pencil beard and wear an engineer's cap and are in search of a decent craft brew, or if you are a 19 year old Asian looking to ironically bowl and scream really loudly and giggle.

If you have any familiarity with how pool is actually played, you will find yourself wanting to go over to the red-felted, poorly lit tables and take a red chalk and go outside and draw a big red cockandballs on the sidewalk.
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This seems like a very accurate representation of that place. Not a players room by any stretch.

KMRUNOUT
 
What were you expecting?

Catering to pool players doesn't pay the rent for a space and location like that.
 
PhilosopherKing said:
What were you expecting?

Catering to pool players doesn't pay the rent for a space and location like that.
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Yeah, but most cities the size of Boston can support 1 reasonable facsimile of a real pool hall. Boston used to have a nice place, Boston Billiard Club (as I recall), until about 5 years ago. Now, I think you have to go to the suburbs to play real pool.
 
Cory in DC said:
Yeah, but most cities the size of Boston can support 1 reasonable facsimile of a real pool hall. Boston used to have a nice place, Boston Billiard Club (as I recall), until about 5 years ago. Now, I think you have to go to the suburbs to play real pool.
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I do recall a sweet diamond setup in the dc suburbs.

Is it getting any use these days?
 
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