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  • Black Rose

    This pub has all the good points of a bar in Dublin’s Temple Bar – Guinness, Harp, darts – along with the shortcomings (loud music and too many tourists).

  • This retro lounge lizard bar-restaurant jumps after work and on weekend nights with downtown execs. Cosmopolitan cocktails are top notch (see Good Life Downtown).

  • The first floor of this trendy fish restaurant hosts a dynamic bar scene replete with preening singles. Appropriately, one of the house cocktails is a “flirtini”.

  • How low can you go? The snazzy, gleaming Limbo bar is the Ladder District’s trendiest and most frenetic scene. There’s an upstairs dining section, too.

  • It’s posh, it’s civilized, and it’s expensive. Relax in a brocade chair, sip a single malt, and light up a cigar without the high-octane haze found elsewhere downtown.

  • This surprisingly unpretentious, contemporary jazz bar and casual restaurant makes an excellent place to sip good value wine, kick back, and engage in intelligent conversation with your neighbors.

  • Middle management guys loosen their ties and sip cocktails to mainstream rock upstairs. Downstairs, the polo-shirt crowd shoots pool and swigs Heineken.

  • The Littlest Bar

    The name is no joke. Three’s company but four’s a crowd. There are just two taps, and one of them is Guinness. Like the beer, the crowd tends to be Irish – well, Boston Irish (see The Littlest Bar).

  • This well-mannered pool hall boasts a pair of full-service bars, 22 tables, and live music nightly. It is often frequented by pro athletes. No grungy dress.

  • You can usually get a table at this large pub. Settle in for a night of live music and taste some of the 20 beers on tap.

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