Model Cafe

7 N Beacon St
Allston, MA 02134
Remember when there was a cold war on for who could be the punkiest, the most metal, the hardest hardcore kid around? Well the winners of that cold war have grown up to be sad examples of people who went so far to live up to an imaginary self-image [...]

Inbound Pizza

1232 Commonwealth Ave
Allston, MA 02134
It’s like when your a kid and you have to choke down an entire big bag of salt and vinegar chips before they start to finally taste good.
One could say the same about Inbound Pizza. It’s made by some kind of eastern euro-anians, but they’re all pretty nice guys considering the [...]

The Avenue Bar and Grille

1249 Commonwealth Ave
Allston, MA 02134
I love cheap beer. I’d almost say I love it more than the woman who tore my heart out and destroyed my naive, innocence and optimistic world view, the family that disowned me, the college I went to four years that taught me to hate pointless sports affiliations, the God I [...]

Our House West

1277 Commonwealth Ave
Allston, MA 02134
I’ve never had the food. That said, the food that wafts by always looks good and I end up in this vicious cycle where i’m only willing to buy it when i’ve already blown all my money on the 2 dollar (large bottle) Brubakers.
I have no idea what Brubaker is [...]

Kinvara Pub

Alot of times I feel sad for Kinvara.
Its not a bad bar in particular, the set up is tables to the far left near a dart board, the rectangular bar that juts out into the room, the far right is tables along the walls and some moving space.
The place is somewhat dark, has a deep [...]

White Horse Tavern

The White Horse is lame.
But…
If you’ve been living off dollar menu double cheese burgers, Marlboro 27’s and drinking cup after cup of beer that tastes like the ass of good beer all weekend and can scrounge up $9.95 its a good way to kill a morning.
Expensive, I know. But it is all you can eat, [...]

Great Scott

1222 Commonwealth Avenue
Allston, MA 02134
Nothing is worse than taking a girl out, dropping 20 bucks to get through the door to watch some scrawny guy in grape smuggling girl pants and black dyed hair puff his chest out with his hands at shoulder height and his elbows down while shouting things I cant even understand [...]

Silhouette Lounge

200 Brighton Ave
Allston, MA 02134
This place, Reel Bar, and Obrien’s serve as my bermuda triangle whenever I stumble out on the weekends.
To my knowledge/untrustworthy booze saturated brain, they have the cheapest price on a beer in Allston at 1.75 for a clear plastic cup of pabst (around 6 bucks a pitcher)- no cover.
When you [...]

Irish Village

224 Market St
Brighton, MA 02135
When I heard the Boston Herald rated this the number one irish bar around I thought it would be the kind of place with alot of postiche “old country” crap on the walls and a shamrock string hanging above the bar with a bartender who talks like hes from jersey..
But in [...]

Reel Bar

477 Cambridge St
Allston, MA 02134
I’ve been there a couple times, the cover tends to be cheap (2-5 bucks) if there is one, they serve small bottles of Mickey’s for 2 bucks each (a nice break from PBR, although they have that as well), mix drinks are cheaper than most-
they have a photo booth inside and [...]