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Bars and Nightlife in Boston

The Sinclair
1
MAP F2 • 52 Church St,
Cambridge
Part gastropub and part music
venue, The Sinclair serves bistro
comfort fare as indie bands,
Americana musicians, and hipster
songwriters entertain.
Regattabar
2
MAP F2 • Charles Hotel, 1
Bennett St, Cambridge
This intimate room that boasts
excellent acoustics is widely
acclaimed for presenting some Drink, a cocktail landmark
of the best jazz in the country. Drink
Beehive
3 6
MAP X4 • 348 Congress St
Fresh herbs, hand-chipped ice, and
MAP V5 • 541 Tremont St
This Bohemian bar-café programs specialty liqueurs place this hip bar
live jazz by local artists. The creative in the vanguard of the cocktail world.
bistro menu is complemented by Bartenders ask you your mood and
craft beers and exotic cocktails. then improvise a drink.
Middle East
7
MAP S3 • 472–480
Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge
If you follow underground music,
you're probably already aware of this
legendary venue for new bands that
are looking to break through.
Kinsale Irish Pub &
8
Restaurant
MAP W3 • 2 Center Plaza,
The popular Hawthorne Bar Cambridge St
Built in Ireland, then shipped to Boston
Hawthorne Bar
4 and re-assembled, the Kinsale is an
MAP S5 • Hotel Commonwealth, authentic piece of the old sod. Live
500a Commonwealth Ave music on Tuesday and Saturday.
Some of the country's leading
Game On
mixologists craft the cocktails 9
in this classy Kenmore Square MAP S5 • 82 Lansdowne St
hotel bar designed for intelligent One of sports-crazy Boston’s top
discussion and wistful flirtation. game-watching spots is built into the
walls of Fenway Park. With an entire
Nick’s Comedy Stop
5 wall covered with flat-screen TVs,
there’s always, well, a game on.
MAP V4 • 100 Warrenton St
Nationally known comics from HBO,
House of Blues®
Showtime, Comedy Central, MTV, 0
and the like headline at this popular MAP S5 • 15 Lansdowne St
spot, which is Boston’s longest- The famed chain sticks to its Boston
running comedy club (since 1977). roots with this cavernous venue.
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