PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Each time Pittsfield Attorney Bill Martin takes on a new client involved in a liquor license transfer, he worries he’ll come across a new hiccup.
“It feels a little bit like ‘Mother, may I?’” he said. “You do your best, and then you get your homework corrected, and you find out that you got a 97 when you needed 100. So, you gotta go back and do it again.”
When representing his clients Ronny and Louise Brizan, the owners of BB’s Hot Spot, he didn’t get the perfect score his clients needed.
The Caribbean restaurant has been open at its new location at 455 North St. since Jan. 1, but only got its liquor license on May 22. For the first five months of trying to establish themselves as a full-service eatery, the Brizans couldn’t serve liquor.