If you want to fight for elbow room with sweaty stadium seat-warmers at a nearby sports bar, feel free. But before (or after) hitting Fenway, Eastern Standard offers much more comfortable environs: an unpretentious American brasserie with one of the city’s best, most consistent bar programs, plus a shaded patio for people-watching. Rare beers abound and the stiff sips—like a regularly rotating milk punch—are always home runs.
Eastern Standard
528 Commonwealth Ave., Boston • (617) 532-9100
easternstandardboston.com
Other Winners
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Pre-/Post-Fenway Park
2015 Winner: Audubon
This rechristened cocktail joint (formerly Audubon Circle) offers Fenway crowds an alternative to sticky-floored sports bars serving watery beer and frozen buffalo wings…...
- 838 Beacon St., Boston
- (617) 421-1910
- audubonboston.com
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Pre-/Post-Fenway Park
2016 Winner: The Lower Depths
It’s a rookie move to waste your gameday elbowing for personal space amid tourists at a Lansdowne Street bar...
- 476 Comm. Ave., Boston
- (617) 266-6662
- thelowerdepths.com
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Pre-/Post-Fenway Park
2018 Winner: Bleacher Bar
- 82A Lansdowne St., Boston
- (617) 262-2424
- https://bleacherbarboston.com
