Pour One Out: Pour House In Boston's Back Bay Will Not Reopen

BOSTON — It was loved, it was lost, it was rumored to come back, but now plans to restore and reopen Rihanna's favorite Boston bar have completely fallen through.

The Pour House will not be reopening after planning a comeback for an early 2022 date in December.

For 34 years, the Pour House was treasured, bringing in an intoxicating mix of all types of people: personally, I was a bartender there for a few years leading up to its closure during the start of the pandemic in March of 2020. I was even Rihanna's bartender one of the nights she stopped in for wings and a few cold ones in 2019.

Along with countless others, the Pour House fell victim to the initial shutdown during the beginning of the pandemic, forcing the bar to close its doors, leaving its staff and customers without a clue as to what would happen next.

Word eventually came around in early September that the bar would not be reopening, along with neighboring bars Whiskeys, McGreevy's, and Lir, I found out through Instagram that my friends and I would no longer have jobs.

Then, December 2021 rolled around and the bar's landlord Charles Talanian, president of realty firm C. Talanian Realty Co., told Boston.com of his plans to reopen the bar under McGreevy's former manager Charles Hitchcock in early 2022.

"We were fully on board to make this happen," Hitchcock said. "We didn't decide the final outcome."

So now it's time to say goodbye to a place in Boston that homed a $5 twenty-two-ounce mug full of Coors Lite deal every day, with the ability to serve them at 8 a.m. through 1:55 a.m. And to a place that served you hotdogs when you were shut off.

There have been no details as to what will be going into the former two-level dive bar's space, or the bars that surround it on the Boylston Street strip, but one thing is for sure: Boylston Street will never be the same.