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Bars & Clubs
Neighborhoods: Downtown Crossing
2014 Winner: The Merchant
Photo Credit: Natasha Moustache
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Everyone at the Merchant has something to sell. The kitchen team: a strong menu of American brasserie fare. The bar staff: terrific cocktails and more than 60 beers, half on draft. The post-6 pm suits that swarm here to drink them: insurance, probably. (Maybe mutual funds.) We’re fully invested in this jumping new joint, where the 40-foot bar’s standing-room-only crowds capture what a revitalized downtown should be: a commerce-friendly crossroads.
The Merchant
60 Franklin St., Boston • (617) 482-6060
themerchantboston.com
Other Winners
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Neighborhoods: Downtown Crossing
2015 Winner: Stoddard’s
This gastropub’s handsome wooden bar is big: The hand-carved UK import stretches 30 feet…...
- 48 Temple Place, Boston
- (617) 426-0048
- stoddardsfoodandale.com