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Party Earth Review Named after America’s literary “laureate of the lowlife,” Bukowski Tavern is a great combination of sloshy dive bar and beer aficionado’s paradise that attracts students, hipsters, and blue-collar types alike. Dimly lit... ... read full review
50 Dalton Street
Boston, MA 02115
Green Line: Hynes Convention Center
617-437-9999
Daily noon–2am
Back Bay, Boston –
Named after America’s literary “laureate of the lowlife,” Bukowski Tavern is a great combination of sloshy dive bar and beer aficionado’s paradise that attracts students, hipsters, and blue-collar types alike.
Dimly lit and featuring the requisite details of any good dive – namely, walls lined in beer bottles, blaring rock music, and a cluster of regulars hunched on stools – the venue also offers an impressive brew menu with everything from basic ales and lambics to exotic Japanese sake/ale hybrids and bacon-flavored German rauchbier (smoked beer).
Within walking distance of Fenway, the venue is fairly laid-back during the week when locals and Sox fans drop in for pre-game drinks at the bar or fill the tables to down some greasy bar food.
The place gets plenty rowdy on weekends, though, when hordes of trendy Berklee music students and hip twenty-somethings turn the narrow space into a drunken mess as they throw back more than a few unusual brews and scream over the music, while patrons overwhelmed by the selection of suds usually just spin the brightly-colored “beer wheel” and let chance decide their poison.
A grungy take on the gastropub, Bukowski Tavern is a great option for both weekday beer samplers and weekend partiers into elbow-to-elbow action.
Urban hipsters, Berklee students, beer enthusiasts, and blue-collar workers, early 20s to early 30s.
TV tuned to Boston sports. Beer wheel.
Pub grub including burgers and sandwiches. Cash only.
Appetizers $7–$11, entrées $11–$15. Beer $5–$20, cocktails $8+.
Very casual, mostly jeans and sneakers.
Friday and Saturday nights for the biggest beer-guzzling crowds.
Summer Shack (149 Alewife Brook Parkway) offers an alternative to pub food, with a menu featuring lobster and all-you-can-eat crab and shrimp nights.
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