This gastropub’s handsome wooden bar is big: The hand-carved UK import stretches 30 feet. Its craft beer selection is quality: There are more than 100 varieties between taps, cans and casks. (Plus a stacked selection of cocktails and brown liquors.) Its history runs deep: Brick walls bearing framed brassieres nod to the 1868 building’s past life as a corset shop. And its crowds get thick: This is where pre-club crowds start the party right with booze and burgers.
Stoddard’s
48 Temple Place, Boston • (617) 426-0048
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Neighborhoods: Downtown Crossing
2014 Winner: The Merchant
Everyone at the Merchant has something to sell...
- 60 Franklin St., Boston
- (617) 482-6060
- themerchantboston.com