Thursday, October 13, 2011
Despite misgivings and past incidents, the new Sake manager was approved.
Mansfield selectmen were cautious Wednesday in approving the proposed new manager of Sake, Mansfield Crossing's live-theater hibachi restaurant, but voted 5-0 in favor. Sake was the recipient in February of three separate liquor license violations and a fine, after a performing chef squirted rice wine into the mouth of an under-aged patron in the presence of his parents. That memory appeared to be fresh in the minds of board members. They weren't inclined to grant the request for a change of manager without some very pointed questions to applicant Michelle Li and her paralegal assistant Andrea Kor. Complicating the procedure was a significant language barrier between the English speaking board and Li, who at times needed Kor's Chinese/…
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Taste of the Tri-Town draws big crowd, despite the weather.
The Tri-Town Chamber of Commerce hosted its fourth-annual Oktoberfest on Tuesday to a crowd of hungry, if a little wet, denizens at Mansfield Crossing. The rain did not stop the appetites of those who came, as vendors from all over the area put their food up for tasting. Participants dug in and tried a little bit of everything. This is the fourth year of the event, and according to Tri-Town Chamber organizer and volunteer Kathy Griffin, it's as well attended as previous years. "We have a lot of walk-in people who came in last minute, which is great," she said. "Last year it rained as well and we had some great turnout too." All proceeds go to food pantries in the three towns. Last year, the event raised $6,800, and collectively the event …
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Triple charges in December incident.
Selectmen held feet to the fire Wednesday for owners of Sake, a new hibachi restaurant in town, fining them $1000 and voting for an official reprimand. The deal was punishment for a sake-squirting incident in December that ended up with a 19-year-old youth on the wrong end of the squirt bottle. Also at the Feb. 9 meeting, over the objections of some on the board, selectmen handed the Mansfield Veterans of Foreign Wars a one-day liquor license suspension, for over-serving its own bar manager. The manager, John Camera, was then involved in a pedestrian accident that resulted in injuries to two people, one of them a toddler. Camara failed a field sobriety test and a Breathalyzer test at the station after he was brought in. "But for the …
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Bob Havey
6:25 pm on Friday, February 11, 2011
My wife and I went to Sake with my son and his wife. We had a ball! It truely is theater. I hope there's a way to salvage the 'squirting of the rice wine' portion of the presentation. I see absolutely nothing wrong with having an ounce or two of Sake squirted into your mouth providing you're of age. Is this really ' delivering free drinks, and promoting a game or contest involving alcohol'? Come … more ›