Blau told The Times that his restaurant benefited greatly once it received its all-alcohol license. In past years customers would come into the restaurant, ask for a mixed drink, and be disappointed, Mr. Blau said. Overall sales at the restaurant were up 10 to 13 percent over last year, Mr. Blau said with liquor sales about 12 percent of Copper Wok bottom line.
The restaurant already served beer and wine, so the addition of alcohol has likely just shifted dollars, not added any more revenue, Ms. Gillick told The Times.
Anecdotally, Ms. Gillick said having more restaurants in Vineyard Haven has kept more people in town rather than going to Oak Bluffs. The real test will be the off-season, she said. Susan Goldstein, co-owner of Mansion House, said her business advertises that people can walk to the beach, to restaurants, and to the ferry.
Davis said. There have been a lot more people downtown, and parking has been at a premium, Mr. These people who come because they love it, need to leave it alone! Stop trying to bring what you left behind with you. We don't want it or need it. Having a dry town, is part of the elusive, intangible magic. It almost brought me to tears when Vineyard Haven caved in to the newbies..
If they have come just to take another chunk out of the proverbial goose We have not kept it how we like it all of these years just to get set up for you to make your fortune off of us.
We have done it, because we like it just the way that it is!! I still await an apology from all those who saw the end of the world coming in Vineyard Haven. DWI arrests actually went down. The sky is falling! Still waiting kids. Another thing, did the existing Chilmark restaurants know when they went into business that Chilmark was a dry town? Well, life is full of choices isn't it..
Bob Nixon , Chilmark. Does anyone knows the correct history of our town banning the sale of spirits? Was the consumption of alcohol outlawed longer than prohibition or was it only the sale? The only facts I could find were in the History of Marthas Vineyard which details that at least until three Chilmark taverns were in the business of selling "strong drink". The book includes an impressive list of many of Chilmark's founding immigrant families who held licenses to engage in selling alcohol.
Fascinating to me that two hundred twenty eight years later three similar establishments are still extant but today they may only pour, not sell, alcohol. In , however, Ebenezer Allen, and in William Clark and Lemuel Little were licensed as "innholders in Chilmark," and obtained a license as such.
It is believed that these licenses cover rather the retailing of "strong drink," as three taverns in the town were not required for the convenience of wayfarers at that period. Situated as it was and is, the need of such houses occurred so infrequently, that private homes have always been ample, and at the service of the "stranger within its gates" temporarily.
Rush judged the excessive use of alcohol as injurious to physical and psychological health. But today with residents proudly proclaiming Chilmark " the wettest dry town in America" the debate is not about abstinence. Most striking in todays debate is that many expressing strident opposition to the sale of "strong drink" in Chilmark freely express that they enjoy bringing alcohol to consume in the towns three restaurants.
They are equally upfront that their resistance is to one of our local business profiting from their consumption. Make one wonder if its not the Methodist revival but local history at play? Does any descendant of one our first "licensed inn holders" know what went down in the Chilmark Taverns in ?
Care to share? Did a rum fueled argument over the impending ratification of the Constitution lead to a brawl? Did you ever hear stories of Mr. Or that a regular, resentful over their high bar tab, conspired to strip your ancestor of their license? Was there ever talk of a neighboring business owner who sought success in killing the competition? Ah, Chilmark! Noelle , chilmark summer resident. I don't understand the difference between allowing byob and allowing the sale of the very same alcohol by the restaurants themselves other than that the latter helps our Chilmark businesses remain in business.
If you are dining there you are welcome to BYOB — bring your own alcoholic beverage. Restaurants may be licensed to serve alcoholic beverages, though some are limited to beer and wine. Chilmark restaurants may charge you a setup fee for mixed drinks or a corkage fee for wine service. Many regard the BYOB option as a bonus because it assures that they will be able to enjoy their favorite wine with dinner.
In the summer, farm stands dot the roadside. Smoking -- In the past few years, all of Cape Cod and most of the island towns have gone "smoke-free" to some extent. The towns of Falmouth, Barnstable, Yarmouth, Dennis, Brewster, Chatham, Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro, and Provincetown, and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, have all passed some variation on laws forbidding smoking in public places as a way to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke.
This means that in the majority of restaurants and bars in these towns, you cannot light up. While some large hotels set aside rooms for smokers, the vast majority of lodging establishments on Cape Cod are nonsmoking.
There is one establishment in Barnstable where smoking is currently allowed. At Puff the Magic, Main St. On Martha's Vineyard, all restaurants are smoke-free except those in Oak Bluffs and Edgartown that have separately enclosed and ventilated bar areas. Vineyard Haven, also known as Tisbury, allows drinking but does not have any separate bar areas. Because the three other towns on the Vineyard are "dry," meaning no alcohol can be sold, there are no bars in those towns and, therefore, no smoking at all in restaurants.
There is also no smoking allowed in the common areas of inns on the Vineyard. There may be some inns where certain rooms are designated for smokers, and visitors wishing to smoke should inquire when they book their rooms.
Every state, county, and city may levy its own local tax on all purchases, including hotel and restaurant checks and airline tickets. These taxes will not appear on price tags. In Massachusetts the state sales tax is 6. The hotel tax also varies in the 15 Cape Cod towns plus the towns on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, with the combination of state and local taxes totaling between 9. Alaska and Hawaii have their own zones.
Daylight saving time summer time is in effect from 1am on the second Sunday in March to 1am on the first Sunday in November, except in Arizona, Hawaii, the U.
Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Daylight saving time moves the clock 1 hour ahead of standard time. For help with time translations, and more, download our convenient Travel Tools app for your mobile device.
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Toilets -- Public toilets or "restrooms" are relatively rare on the Cape and islands, but they can be found in the most touristy areas. Falmouth, Hyannis, Chatham, and Provincetown have public restrooms on their main streets.
Provincetown's are on Macmillan Pier, and Chatham's are on Main Street near the central parking area.
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