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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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.