Boston Nightlife

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The Beehive

The Beehive is a restaurant, bar and live music room on Tremont Street, set inside the Boston Center for the Arts complex in the South End....

Cheers Beacon Hill opened in 1969 as the Bull & Finch Pub, in the lower level of a mansion at 84 Beacon Street, and it became the inspir...

jm Curley is a downtown barroom named for James Michael Curley, the Boston politician it calls the Rascal King. Since opening on Temple Plac...

The Black Rose has been an Irish pub and restaurant at 160 State Street since 1976, right by Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, and it has buil...

Warren Tavern was built in 1780 on Pleasant Street in Charlestown, one of the first buildings to go up again after British forces set the la...

Bukowski Tavern is a beer bar with a sense of humor, tucked into the parking garage at 50 Dalton Street on the corner of Boylston. It has po...

Rooftop at The Envoy sits on top of The Envoy Hotel in the Seaport, seven levels above the harbor, and its pull is the outlook: panoramic vi...

Wally’s Café Jazz Club has had live music every night since it opened on New Year’s Day 1947, and the club describes itself as the first nig...

Carrie Nation Cocktail Club takes its name, with a wink, from Carrie Nation, the hatchet-wielding campaigner who tried to rid America of liq...

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Things to do

Freedom Trail walking tourSmall-group guided walk, about 2.5 hours
Duck boat tourCity sights by road, then a Charles River cruise
Boston Harbor sightseeing cruise90 minutes from Rowes Wharf, past the skyline and the USS Constitution