Well, I Prefer Champagne With My Chitlins!

EX-CUSE me?

When an upscale neighborhood committee tells an upscale black lounge that they don't need a liquor license because you don't need a martini when you're eating Chitlins... what is one to think?

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Hilliard reveals that the Soho Alliance, a community action group, has little tolerance for the liquor license crowd. Apparently, the area in Soho where Lola resides has been inundated recently with new, hip spots to drink and lounge. However, in the case of Lola, folks are crying racism. Why? Well, Soho Alliance director Sean Sweeney has been very critical about Lola's need for a liquor license. Allegedly, he's gone on record to say: "I don't think you need a martini to go with chitlins and collard greens." And... "What type of wine pairs with Jambalaya?" He's even been accused of spearheading an aggressive anti-Lola campaign: somebody's been posting anti-Lola flyers all over Soho.

Many of Lola's supporters believe the neighborhood group is concerned the martini-drinking black crowd will get rowdy and spill violence into the street because that's what martini-drinking professional black folks do on Hump Day. Get lit and create lots of ruckus just to irritate The Man ...