Best of Boston
Best Bar, Upscale
The Hawthorne
Boston
Enjoy hosting your friends in your über-cool city apartment while mixing up painstakingly hand-swizzled drinks? Going to the Hawthorne is a lot like that, with [...] read more»
2011 Best Bar, Upscale
Drink
Boston
From behind a bar devoid of the usual parade of bottles, some of the city's most acclaimed barkeeps mix and measure with scientific precision, pulling [...] read more»
2010 Best Bar, Upscale
Drink
Boston
There's no shortage of great bars in Boston: Green Street, Eastern Standard, and Deep Ellum are on par with the very best in this cocktail-revived [...] read more»
2009 Best Bar, Upscale
Drink
Boston
The previous generation (Eastern Standard, the sadly defunct B-Side Lounge) may have planted the seeds for a cocktail revival, but Fort Point newcomer Drink—with its [...] read more»
2003 Best Bar, Upscale
Via Matta
Boston
This Back Bay nuovo Italian restaurant is as self-consciously trendy as its downtown sister, Radius, but damned if they don't mix a thumpingly good basil [...] read more»
2002 Best Bar, Upscale
Oak Bar, Fairmont Copley Plaza
Boston
Raise a glass, if you will, to the ever-stunning Oak Bar. It's where sex appeal takes its post-prandial drink, where intimacy lounges in a long, [...] read more»
2001 Best Bar, Upscale
Bristol Lounge, Four Seasons Hotel
Boston
The Bristol is a refreshing respite from the cigar-chompin' clubbier bars around town, yet it still manages—with its white-coated waitstaff, marble bar tops, and Vose [...] read more»