Silhouette Cocktail Lounge

This where you can come every day at noon (except Mondays and Tuesdays at 4) when it opens and see the same cast of characters drinking the same things. This where you go during hurricanes and snowstorms to ride the weather out. You can turn the sil in to a cheap date, a hang out with friends, a tears in your beer by yourself session, a lone drink, many a pitcher, shots, whatever you want it to be. This is a cheap neighborhood bar with no pretense. It has free darts, free popcorn, old men, and Keno. During the day it's mostly men with the exception of Irene if she's working. And you're luck if she is working because it's like drinking with your quirky aunt. At night the younger college and Allston residents come in. The music is a juke box so you can hear anything from Mariah Carey to Megadeth to Jay-Z, or all the above back to back. Can't rally go wrong with this cash only Allston relic.

Ever wanted to throw darts with a purple-haired punk rocker while tossing down delightfully refreshing three dollar tall boys? If you answered yes than The Silhouette Cocktail Lounge, complete with free salty popcorn, booths and tables war-torn to near perfection and more characters than a Proust novel may be just the place for you. While this Allston fixture caters toward the leather jacket, skinny jean crowd, you won’t be turned away in a pea-coat. Instead, incredibly affable bartenders will serve you cheap beer or monstrous mixed drinks ensuring a good time will be had by all. Old booths, tall tables and a bar full of gregarious locals are surrounded by neon beer signs and a few TV’s in the main room. Make your way through here and you’ll run into the consistently bustling pool table. The jukebox in the corner usually plays Slayer, but no one’s really going to mind if you toss on a little Counting Crows either. Just make sure to select whatever you want early if you want to hear it before closing. Keep walking and you’ll find a nice sized dart room. On weekend nights it tends to get busy back here so you’ll have plenty of time to first take down a few 9 dollar pitchers to ensure better dart throwing accuracy. If you’re nervous about you dart skills try taking aim at some deer or water fowl on the Big Buck Hunter first. The facilities, while lacking in general cleanliness, have so much character it’s sort of hard to find any fault with them. There’s a smoking area out back which gets a good bit of use, just make sure not to bring a beer out there. It’s cash only, and with the prices so low that means that 20 bucks is pretty much the maximum amount of cash that you can possibly remember spending.