Quencher Tavern closing

June 16,2024

The sun was shining, the door of the bar was open, and Sam Cooke wafted from a jukebox onto I Street in South Boston like a smooth, soft dream. It’s been a long, a long time coming, but I know a change gonna come. And so it will. The Quencher is closing. The question is not why The Quencher, one of the greatest bars in the world, is closing. The question is how, in yuppified Southie, it lasted this long It is one of the last blue-collar watering holes in Southie. A fading link to the old Southie, 28 seats stuffed into a discreet house on a quiet residential street. I Street, near the corner of East Seventh Street, ain’t Broadway. A tall Bud will set you back $3.50. They’re charging considerably more up on Broadway, East and West, because in modern Southie there is no difference between the Lower End and the Point when it comes to prices. It’s all downtown prices.