Harvard & Stone
The crown jewel of the Houston Brothers' nightlife empire is Harvard & Stone, a faux-grungy hangout with a rollicking house band and burlesque dancers dressed like Rosie the Riveter. At…
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1886 Bar
The old caretaker cottage at Pasadena’s historic Raymond Hotel (first opened in 1886) is located at the end of a shrub-lined pathway and surrounded by overhanging trees. Hidden within is…
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The Chestnut Club
Longtime restaurant cocktail consultants Steve Livingi and Pablo Moix's The Chestnut Club is a stripped-down lounge where bare brick walls and antique fixtures lend a certain dignified air. The club…
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No. 9 Park
For more than 15 years, Chef Barbara Lynch's flagship restaurant has been a Boston institution. By Lynch's side since the beginning, Cat Silirie—the wine director for all of Lynch's restaurants—continues…
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The Hawthorne
Jackson Cannon's cocktail den below the Commonwealth Hotel meanders from bar room to weird hotel lounge with plenty of drinks to help you forget the zebra print chairs. From old…
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Brick & Mortar
Though Brick & Mortar makes great cocktails, it's also simply a neighborhood bar. Full of goofballs who know how to make great drinks, Brick & Mortar knows how to party,…
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backbar
Run by Sam Treadway, one of Boston's brightest bartenders, this pocket bar off an alley behind Journeyman (the progressive Somerville restaurant) covers a lot of ground for a companion piece.…
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West Bridge
Perhaps the best place to meet a nerd who also has good taste in food and drink, West Bridge has become MIT's de-facto bar and kitchen. Open straight through lunch…
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Highball Lounge
Highball Lounge is forgivably kitschy, mainly because it's located in a Kimpton Hotel—a chain that notoriously embraces the semi-cheesy. The bar is full of the sort of stuff you'd find…
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State Park
In Virginia there's an oddly named state park, Hungry Mother, called so for the tragic Molly Marley who starved to death after escaping from her Native American captors. In Cambridge,…
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