"He's influenced countless bartenders, propagated a thriving late-night scene, and helped liberate amaro from the dusty shadows of obscurity," writes Boston Magazine's Christopher Hughes in an interview with Josh Childs, whose last shift at Silvertone — and as a bartender in general — is coming up later this month. With his bartending retirement looming, Childs takes a much-deserved look back at pouring for famous Boston chefs before they were famous Boston chefs, serving Jamie Bissonnette meatloaf, bringing Fernet and Miller High Life together, and closing down the bar with Laurence Fishburne and a bottle of Lagavulin 16. [BM]
— Knoefel Longest
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