Now, you’ll at least know it when you do.Īlibi Bar & Lounge: A drunk tank that attracts celebrities Of course, a couple of these places are no longer in operation so you'll have to settle for scouting out the locale sober, or saddling up at a nearby spot to digest your findings.įor drinkers in Boston, imbibing on some piece of history happens. We've compiled a short list - complete with an interactive map - of some of Boston’s most historic joints, so you can seek out a drink and feel important doing it. We’ve sat on barstools discussing Tinder matches where intellectuals waxed poetic about revolution. We stumble out of spots where drunken patrons went missing or met their demise. We pick our poison where politicians were poisoned, where writers and artists nursed drinking habits that were the death of them. The same is true of Boston bars: That beer you chugged may have been poured from the same tap as Bulger’s last drink, as Reagan’s famous Boston pint, as a Kennedy’s first beer.

You can’t walk into a Chipotle or grab a steak without stuffing your face in some place where history was made. When you start to fall in love with Boston, you begin to stumble upon landmarks in corners of the city you think are forgotten.