Went to the bar last night hoping to catch the vibe before attending a session in the next coming days while visiting Boston. They would not accept Canadian driver’s license or military ID as acceptable pieces of ID, wrongly citing that they weren’t recognized ID. They also said ‘it would have been fine if you were here earlier in the day’ with the same ID. We arrived at 10pm, 3 hrs before close, since we travelled 7hours from Ontario just to go to that bar.

I didn’t appreciate being lied to, nor the subjective way they determined ID. Massachusetts law also confirms that establishments actually make their own determination of what they CAN accept as ID, but it does not allow them to say what they CAN’T accept based on the list of valid identification. To explain, an establishment can accept a gun license, birth certificate, etc as acceptable ID if it is legally issued by any foreign government if the establishment is familiar with the form of ID. Though the 3 foreign IDs that are universally accepted in Massachusetts are: Drivers License, Passport, and Military ID.

For obvious reasons, many people leave their passports secure while travelling. The fact that they wouldn’t take 2 pieces of valid ID for 1 person gave the impression that this establishment is using practices to discriminate on patronage. Something that, from previous experience, has not been their form of practice. Don’t know what changed here, but the vibes are officially off.