Neighborhood bar to close after decades. Will Boiseans be ‘ecstatic’ over what’s next?

After decades of beer and cocktails, a neighborhood dive bar will shutter at the end of the month.

But the building won’t stay quiet long.

Cricket’s Tavern, 1228 S. Oakland Ave., announced recently on Facebook that it is closing: “It is with a sad heart, that our last day is Sunday, May 29.”

But the next sentence offered a surprise: “The Eastside will take possession of the building on June 1.”

The Eastside? Of course. The Eastside Tavern, a longtime bar at 610 E. Boise Ave., closed in April after 27 years. Cricket’s has been around even longer than that.

When announcing its impending closure, the Eastside insisted that it planned to move. And, yep, Cricket’s is where it will reopen, according to a follow-up post on the Eastside’s Facebook page — although it never mentions Cricket’s by name.