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South End bar and lounge provides area scenesters with a stylish place to snack and swill.

Reviews:

• “Good service, relaxed atmosphere”
• “They reuse the Bellinis, gross!”
• “Use to be the best hot spot but now has gone down hill "
• “Very Obnoxious Bouncer”
• “Top Rated Saturday Night Spot.”

28 Degrees

An Elvis shrine and a clientele that ranges from pierced to prep—the personification of urban hip.

Reviews:

• “Best Food, Worst Service”
• “Insane waitress”
• “Best Bar in Boston”
• “Is it members only?”
• “Hip, reasonable , retro-heaven”

Tips: Bring cash: Delux doesn’t take plastic.

Delux Cafe

Stylish, all-purpose brasserie lures armchair gourmands and well-dressed couples to lightly treaded Harrison Ave.

Reviews:

• “my favorite neighborhood spot”
• “Not Worth It”
• “Who reviews this place the help or owners?”
• “Really trendy restaurant/bar with delicious food and drinks!!”
• “A Classic”

Tips: Free evening parking is available in the lot adjacent to Gaslight.

Gaslight

Allston’s beloved dive serves as a second home for locals in need of cheap drink and a relaxed hangout.

Reviews:

• “allston, ma is the rippenest town.”
• “Dive at it’s BEST!”
• “PUNK ROCK JUKEBOX”

Tips: The bar’s cash only, so come prepared.

Model Cafe

An interracial, inter-galactic music club and bowling lounge.

Reviews:

• “ferguddabout the pizza, eat like a grown up!”
• “Let’s not confuse “trendy” with good. "
• “Maybe it might be different on another night.”
• “Sooooo Groooovy”
• ""

Tips: Make a date of it and grab dinner upstairs at Bella Luna.

Milky Way Lounge and Lanes

One of the gay and lesbian scene’s favorite dining spots, where the Back Bay meets the South End.

Reviews:

• “Horrible Service and Tasteless Food”
• “Tasty apps and entrees, Good cocktails, Service needs some work”
• “PLEASE Change Restaurant Description”
• “Started out so promising….”
• “Avoid NEw Year’s Eve dinner package special”

Tips: Stop in any evening before 7:30pm, order any entree and receive any sandwich, burger or designated entree for $2.09.

209

One of the area’s most popular gay bars, located just off the M.I.T. campus.

Reviews:

• “No Attitude the Men Actually Speak If you’re into Cloned out Drugged Out This is NOT the place”
• “A little too mellow for me…”
• “Certainly not Paradise….”
• “Nice to be yourself”
• “GO IF YOUR INTO FUN!”

Paradise Cafe

One of Cambridge’s smartest, most stylish hangouts resides smack dab between Harvard and Porter Squares.

Reviews:

• “Great people, space and food”
• “still the best!!”
• “Fans of the WSL”
• “Best it’s EVER been!”
• “eewww!!!!!”

Tips: Not much of a late-owl? Come by instead for their Sunday brunch, weekly from 10am to 2pm.

West Side Lounge

Dressed-up dungeon provides Union Square with an upscale lounge for socializing singles.

Reviews:

• “Best live music in Somerville”
• “Great Spot!”
• “Not a good time”
• “Manray Methodone…”
• ""

Tips: There are but two entrees on the menu, served Fridays and Saturdays only. The Independent, just a few doors down, is a great place to fuel up before visiting the club.

Toast Lounge

One of Boston’s most popular spots to “strike a pose” caters mainly to alternative crowds.

Reviews:

• “Beware Out-of-Towners”
• “I’d go back”
• “Severe”
• “the 90’s are over!”
• “Not feeling the BUZZ”

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