Happy Birthday Brian | stckmnn

So the evening of the third of June took us to the waterfront as the post by my esteemed co-FA has noted. We would have perhaps preferred it take us to Dallas where the birthday boy lives, but that would likely have not yielded in a productive 4th, though a more interesting post.

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Happy Birthday Brian | ckdex

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — I am not particularly fond of corporate restaurants or bars. That said, in a town like Boston, when you want to spend a few hours with good friends enjoying food and drink with a water view, you haven’t got many options unless you visit a chain. Until a few years ago, the only real downtown options were extremely limited. Today, they are better. But still, they’re not as plentiful, diverse, or interesting as you would expect in a city literally built on top of the sea.

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EXTRA EXTRA! PUMA CITY IS COMING!

Just as a note for all 8 of you subscribing to this feed. PUMA City is opening up this saturday for three weeks. To celebrate the Volvo Ocean race PUMA is creating a city with 24 shipping containers by the ICA on the WaterFront. Normally, not of interest, but they are the only public facing exhibit, and they have a bar on the top of this thing.

Always looking for new cool spots, we plan to head there too! That way, when they close up shop we can sit around other bars and talk about those nights at PUMA City when things were good — while everyone else just wishes they could.

They have a facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/pumacity

This thing is gonna be sick, I want to buy land and build my house out of this shit!

Filed under: 1 , can't beat it, cool bars, puma, puma city, temporary bar

Four | stkmnn

Clink and Drink

Clink | break the glass if you can

OK, this bar is fucking awful. I feel like stopping there but will push on give you reasons.

• It is in the lobby of The Lyberty Hotel – hotel bars need not be in the lobby
• the fantastic architecture is wasted on the people who must attend this bar regularly
• drink consistency seems to not be high on the priority list
• drink price seems to be arbitrary depending on the bartender

This former prison is gorgeous,

Filed under: bars, hotel bars, sheshe

Three | ckdex

Café Marliave – 10 Bosworth Street, Boston, MA

The Marliave is one of the oldest continuously operating restaurants in Boston. For over 120 years it has seen multiple generations, a conservative city turn liberal, Brahmins give way to the rest of us, and a multitude of other changes, big and small. 2009 brings her most recent overhaul – one any visitor or local Bostonian should experience.

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Three | stckmnn

Café Marliave – 10 Bosworth Street, Boston, MA

Listen – I was delinquent in this post, I admit it. And given my partners eloquence and ability to wrangle pertinent history and such into his posts I suddenly realized my calling. I was trying to be polite, but I cease giving a shit.

Cafe Marliave is awesome. The floors are a white and black french bistro tile, which matches what I have at home, so they are lucky when I sit down I don’t take a dump on the floor.

Filed under: 1, bars, restaurant bars , perfect manhattan

Two | ckdex

The Joshua Tree – 256 Elm St., Somerville, MA (Davis Square)

The Joshua Tree is a great place to hang out with friends, have a few pints, and watch a game on any one of the dozens of flat panel tv sets hung on the exposed brick walls. There are oodles of young people doing the same, so you’ll never feel terribly alone and the odds are pretty good you’ll have a decent time here any night of the week.

Filed under: 1 , Gargoyle's, Joshua Tree

Two | stckmnn

Joshua Tree | B-
Well this week we headed away from downtown and into a soon to be neighborhood for dkdex. Davis square was our destination. After a a couple circles through to find parking we ended up past the theatre and parked next to Orleans, a short walk into the heart of the square.

Filed under: bars, restaurant bars , bars, Davis square, Gargoyoles, Jashua Tree, Sommerville

One | ckdex

The Top of the Hub – 800 Boylston Street

Boston’s Top of the Hub seemed like a perfect start to our themed, periodic pub-crawl through the streets of Boston and beyond. It’s quintessential in its uniqueness and it’s one of those places you “just have to go” when you come to our city for any period of time.

Filed under: bars, restaurant bars , back bay, boston, pour house, top of the hub

Room 507

This is my kind of hotel bar. Me, my wife, our room. Ice machine. Bottle of jack and a flat panel. Free wifi. Comfort.

Granted, this is a highly specialized location and ambiance. But it’s my favorite!

Filed under: hotel bars , hotel