Most of the bars on Post Road in Fairfield offer $2 Tuesday drink specials to thirsty college students needing to blow off some steam. But it seems one of them became a little too attractive to the collegiate crowd.

Last week, Fairfield police and the state Liquor Commission paid Bravo Restaurant a little visit. The sweep, which occurred around 10:20 p.m. on Oct. 20, netted over 100 underage drinkers, many from Fairfield and Sacred Heart universities. Sixty of those kids had fake IDs. Ouch.

Deputy Police Chief Gary MacNamara told us that in his 20 years on the force, this was by far the biggest bust of underage kids he has ever seen. "We have raided bars in the past but never to this magnitude." When police arrived at the restaurant, almost immediately, he says, it was obvious they were going to net a large amount of violations.

As for the fate of Bravo, MacNamara says, "There will most likely be repercussions" by the Liquor Commission, which could fine owners or even shut down the place. The commission is expected to hold a hearing in the next couple of weeks.

"Students found to have violated university policy [against underage drinking] will have their cases processed through the student code of conduct," says Thomas C. Pellegrino, Fairfield U's Associate Vice President and Dean of Students. "This is of course troubling news," he adds, "but it is something that college and university campuses across the country deal with."

MacNamara says, "It is rather disappointing because Bravo Restaurant is within eyeshot of the Police Department."