On a warm, sunny day in May, Hamilton Restaurant and Bar in Coolidge Corner was lively. A family sitting at a high top table next to a bank of large open windows tried out the Alexander Hamilton cocktail, a chocolate take on a Manhattan made with Irish whiskey. The after-work drinks crowd gathered at the bar and devoted trivia teams began to assemble for the weekly Monday night game.
But underneath the tranquil scene, it’s been a stormy time for one of Coolidge Corner’s most well-known watering holes.
On December 22, 2025 a constable served Hamilton co-owner Greg Johnston’s lawyer with a notice to terminate the restaurant’s tenancy-at-will agreement, according to documents filed in Brookline District Court…