8 editor picks in Boston.
8 bars in Boston, editor-picked for bars open late. Bars serving past 23:00. All bars in Boston.
Backbar in Union Square Somerville has poured artful cocktails behind an unmarked door in Boston since 2011. Order the greek mastiha milk punch.
TipWalk-in only, no reservations. Last call 23:15. Order from the staff-pick chalkboard for the best off-menu drink.
The Wig Shop has run a speakeasy-style cocktail bar behind a fake wig-shop storefront on Temple Place in Downtown Boston since 2019. 1940s magazine-ad decor.
TipFind the unmarked door inside the wig storefront.
Yvonne's reopened the historic Locke-Ober space on Winter Place in Downtown Boston in 2015 as a modern supper club. Order the aviation cocktail.
TipThe library room is the quiet cocktail seat. Sunday and Monday nights are the easy walk-in slots.
Trillium on Thomson Place is the Fort Point three-storey taproom and brewpub in Boston since 2018. The third-floor roof terrace is the marquee seat.
TipThird-floor roof seats fill by 17:00 in summer. Online order ahead for can release lineups.
Julio de Haro's Estragon on Harrison Avenue has poured Spanish gin-tonics and tapas in Boston's South End since 2008. Boston Magazine Best of Boston 2023.
TipHappy hour 17:00-19:00 weekdays runs half-price tapas. The lounge is the walk-in seat; book the dining room for parties.
Caffe Vittoria on Hanover Street has poured espresso and grappa in Boston's North End since 1929. Four floors, three liquor bars, a cigar room.
TipBasement liquor bar after 21:00 is the under-toured seat. Grappa and espresso is the canonical close.
Alibi inside the Liberty Hotel on Charles Street has run a former-jail-cell cocktail bar in Beacon Hill Boston since 2007. Order the charles street manhattan.
TipThe jail-cell booths book up by 19:00 on weekends. The bar lounge is the easier walk-in seat.
Bleacher Bar on Lansdowne Street sits beneath the centre-field bleachers at Fenway Park in Boston's Kenmore Square since 2008. Located in Kenmore Fenway.
TipReservations on the website during Sox games; arrive 2 hours before first pitch. The garage-door window opens onto the field on rainouts.
