Dive Bar entertainment in Boston
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Corner Pub
This place will always be ‘Weggie’s’ to the devoted clientele. Whatever the name, this loungie dive has been a neighborhood fixture for decades. The recent upgrade means that the counters are cleaner and the kitchen serves some seriously edible grub. Three-dollar bottles of beer are still the drink of choice. We lament the name change, but we appreciate the upgrade to the bathrooms.
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Delux Café & Lounge
If Boston has a laid-back hipster bar, this is it. The small room on the 1st floor of a brownstone comes covered in knotty pine paneling, artwork from old LPs and Christmas lights. A small TV in the corner plays silent cartoons (not sports), and a noteworthy kitchen serves incredible grilled-cheese sandwiches and inspired comfort food, including coleslaw that you actually want to eat.
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People’s Republik
Outside, older, drunk expats discuss with bravado the merits of deer hunting (neither had done it) while sitting under the Soviet-inspired signage of this watering hole for townies, bike messengers and students. Inside, find darkness, a few dartboards in good repair and seats arranged around a U-shaped bar, allowing for awkward stares or new friendships depending on your approach.
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Charlie’s Kitchen
Charlie’s has two floors: downstairs is tamer and upstairs is where the scene thrives. It’s packed by 9:30pm on a Saturday night; come inside to hear the Cars, Descendants and Pixies played at inordinate volumes from a rock-oriented jukebox. Otherwise drink Pabst and eat patty burgers and lobster rolls while bumping the tattooed elbows of your screaming neighbors.
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Shay’s Pub & Wine Bar
A pleasant basement-level bar, Shay’s is a long-standing favorite among Harvard graduate students. It’s a small wooden pub where you’ll sit on a stool and pretend to look thoughtful. Out front is a small brick patio full of smokers jockeying for one of the few tables. Shay’s stocks a decent list of English beers and a limited selection of wine.
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TC’s Lounge
This extraordinarily awesome dive features a collection of faded posters of near-naked celebrities (Farrah Fawcett), old beer ads, pinball and ugly bathrooms. A truly mixed crowd ranges from rising-class Brazilian laborers and Berklee students to hard-core Sox fans. Expect cheap drinks and only two beers on tap.
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Bukowski Tavern
This sweet-ass bar lies inside a parking garage next to the canyon of the Mass Pike. Expect sticky wooden tables, loud rock, lots of black hoodies and more than 100 kinds of beer. In God we trust; all others pay cash. That goes for the outlet in Inman Sq, too.
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