Best of Boston
Best Club, DJ Music
1990 Best Club, Neighbhorhood
Ed Burke’s
Boston
Soul, blues, and R&B keep this cozy club cranking in Mission Hill—Boston's most maligned neighborhood. read more»
1989 Best Club, Theme
Boston Beach Club
Boston
Well, it's the themiest. Surfing videos, a bar made from surfboards, et cetera. If you can, like, flow with the energy. It also helps to [...] read more»
1989 Best Club, Socially Progressive
Venus de Milo
Boston
Integration comes to Boston nightlife about 20 years later. Still, better late than never. read more»
1988 Best Club, New
The Roxy
Boston
On the huge dance floor of this elegant new club, the fifties (swing) and eighties (top 40) live in musical harmony. And its patronized by [...] read more»
1988 Best Club, New Theme
Zanzibar
Boston
This new dance club is a Banana Republic fantasy, complete with palm fronds, wicker settees, and waitresses in khaki hot pants. The music is numbingly [...] read more»
1988 Best Club
Nightstage
Cambridge
Other clubs wow 'em with ambiance: plastic tropics or Beyond Thunderdome desolation. Nightstage relies on the real thing: music. With acts including Wynton Marsalis, Varl [...] read more»
1986 Best Club
Nightstage
<p>The life span of most nightclubs is short, largely because crowd loyalties tend to change about as often as the Republican candidate for governor. Fortunately, [...] read more»
1974 Best Club, Men's, Private
The Tavern Club
The Tavern Club, which is so exclusive it once turned down President Eisenhower's brother. read more»