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Franklin Cafe

1. Franklin Cafe

4 star rating
115 reviews

Category: Restaurants

A few thoughts about the Franklin: friendly staff  good drinks great scallops steak was a little tough wins award for most frites with steak frites wish they had a larger menu

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Good Drinks

4 star rating 115 reviews

1. Franklin Cafe

Neighborhood: South End

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First, its tough to get in on a Saturday night.  Probably about an hour wait if you are patient but the bar makes good drinks and its a very fun, hip crowd.    The menu is small but had a wide...

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2. City Bar

Neighborhood: Back Bay

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Good drinks (try the berry caipirinha).   Mixed crowd, which seems to depend partly on what's going on at the hotel/whose staying at the hotel (there were a bunch of drunk people from a wedding when...

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3. Green Street

Neighborhood: Central Square

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Good: -The place looks like some shady bar/diner on the outside, but is actually hella nice and dim lit and modern on the inside. Yelpers love that stuff. -Good drink menu. -Special appetizer: duck...

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4. Cantab Lounge

Neighborhood: Central Square

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Little Joe Cook was great...don't think he's playing anymore though.  Drinks are expensive. Feels like a backcountry roadhouse, which is a really good thing. Bartenders have tried to screw me over...

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5. West Side Lounge

Neighborhood: Porter Square

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Note- This summer, friday night is Farmer's Market Friday A fantastic idea worked up with the good people of Land Sake in Weston Now you can do good for the earth while you get your drink on Rock!...

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Nice Bartenders

4 star rating 99 reviews

1. Green Street

Neighborhood: Central Square

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different bartenders "waited" on us and were very nice, helpful with menu choices, and did not push us to order quickly.  That said, there was an awkward moment when I ordered a burger "medium well" (again...

4 star rating 74 reviews

2. City Bar

Neighborhood: Back Bay

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City Bar is a single, square room.  Everyone sees you, you see them.  Nice label clothes on average looking people.    The bartender maintains his dignity.  Heavy use of eye contact and minimal use...

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3. B-Side Lounge

Neighborhood: Kendall Square/MIT

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and neighborhood folks. I have felt in the last couple years that the decor needed a paint job or a refresh (after all it's not the Windsor tap)  But the real reason you go to the B-Side is for the bartenders...

3.5 star rating 38 reviews

4. The Charlesmark…

Neighborhood: Back Bay

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it there.  I'm always nervous when I'm the first one to a meeting spot, I don't want to look like a lush or anything!  I found that I didn't feel out of place here.  The bartender was very nice...

4 star rating 115 reviews

5. Franklin Cafe

Neighborhood: South End

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Went in on a quiet weekday night and sat at the bar with my girlfriend for dinner.  The bartender was nice-but it seemed forced and disingenuous.  After the order was taken, the bartender brought us...

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