DK Travel : Boston : Bars & Nightclubs

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7 Embassy

Narrow lounge downstairs has neo-Deco luxury look, but the prime (young and wealthy) clientele cluster on the dance floor upstairs.
Amrhein’s

The vintage bar at Amrhein’s – a South Boston fixture since 1890 – is reason enough to visit the ’hood. Locals debate the issue of the day over a drink or two.
Aria

The lush life: sugar daddies and their trophies get on down amid red velvet and goth art. Admission on a busy night may depend on how hot you look.
Avalon

Lansdowne Street clubs come and go, but Avalon perennially ranks among New England’s best dance and live music venues. Its Sunday night gay parties are the stuff of Boston legend (see Avalon Sundays). Local band showcases and national touring acts bring lines that extend around the block. And its state-of-the-art sound and light systems rival any in New York or LA.

Avalon
Avalon

Superstar DJs rank Avalon as one of the top US dance clubs, and the animated weekend throngs reveal why. Avalon also stages live concerts from hard rock to the hippest of hip-hop (see Avalon).
Avalon Sundays

As if commanding the best lights, best sound, and best DJs in New England was not enough, Avalon compels the finest gay men in the city to strut through its door every Sunday for five hours of serious booty shaking. Boston’s longest running gay club night brings the world’s leading circuit DJs along with special guests like drag queen extraordinaire, Lady Bunny.
Axis

Avalon’s little sibling picks up a more collegiate crowd for its pulsating dance sessions: Friday nights have an underground feel with DJs plucked from around the globe.
B-Side Lounge

Nestled deep in MIT (see Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) territory, the B-Side serves up classic cocktails to a kitsch-loving, amiable young crowd. The kitchen’s glorious Southern cookin’ shouldn’t be overlooked either.
B. B. Wolf

Featuring light American ales brewed nearby at Boston Beer works, B. B. Wolf draws a quieter crowd than the bars located near Fenway Park.
Beacon Hill Pub

Serving cheap, plentiful beer to recent college grads is the BHP’s raison d’être . The delightfully incongruous location at the foot of blue-blooded Beacon Hill only adds to the bar’s gritty appeal. Should you find drinking games and vacuous conversation stultifying, there are classic video games and a shoot-out basketball machine toward the back.