Any recs. for cocktails/bar menus near Harborwalk?

[carbondiamond]

My husband and I like getting out for walks but he usually doesn't like to explore cities (too many people, he says). The exception is when I lure him out with promises of a drink on the way. I like a nice bar menu, as well. If there is a good view of the water, he will go without any complaints and everyone is happy! ;) Any suggestions?

[Beachowolfe]

it's a very long walk... any particular area you are considering?

[carbondiamond]

We are hoping to explore all of it this year. We know the area around Quincy-Dorchester pretty well now but I keep wanting to explore more. We walk 3-7 miles at a time, usually, so we can break up different areas up into chunks.

[MC Slim JB]

The South Bay end of the Harborwalk passes quite close to the Franklin Southie, very good food and drinks.

The Fort Point stretch gets you within a couple of blocks of Drink, arguably the single best craft cocktail bar in the city, and though the canape-like menu there isn't very interesting, you could pop upstairs to Sportello for upscale Italian, or across the street to Lucky's for rather good bar food.

On the waterfront stretch of the Fort Point walk, there's a cluster of places: a giant Legal, Strega Waterfront, Temazcal, Sam's, Whiskey Priest, Atlantic Beer Garden, Anthony's, No Name, Salvatore's, LTK, and Daily Catch. I don't love the food at any of them (though I haven't tried Temazcal yet; it just opened.)

The South Boston portion goes right by Local 149, which is brand-new but which I had a decent early experience at, a gastro-pubby kind of place with decent cocktails and a good beer selection.

There are a number of okay, fancy-ish hotel bars on the Waterfront/North End stretch; my favorite is probably the Rowes Wharf bar. A good, casual neighborhood alternative would be the Waterfront Cafe; the cocktails are nothing to sing about, it's more of a beer and cheap wine kind of place, but it's got decent Italian-American and bar food.

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Franklin Southie
152 Dorchester Ave, Boston, MA 02127

[Beachowolfe]

Can't go wrong stopping for a beer at whiskey priest, ABG, or Remy's all of which are literally on the water. Waterfront has great pizza but no view (better than Regina's IMO)

There's also the Sel de le Terre for food and The Landing for drinks by the aquarium.

[barleywino]

I enjoyed the moules frites and wings at Sam's (between the courthouse and the ICA) and the views from the deck were relaxing

[C. Hamster]

OT, I know but is the Harborwalk continuous now?

[carbondiamond]

Not continuous but there are some very long stretches that are finished. Plus, we often just take surface streets to get to the next finished section.

[C. Hamster]

Tnx

Does it start in Milton?

[carbondiamond]

Visit the Harborwalk website for some really great info-I am terrible at giving directions!

http://www.bostonharborwalk.com/

[Dea]

Thanks so much for posting that link! Between that and the recommendations here I see a very fun Harborwalk bar crawl in my future this summer!

[C. Hamster]

Thanks. I live 2 blocks away from it but didnt think it was done yet.

At the Milton End, there is a place that is a nice cocktail spot (dont know about food) called 88 Wharf by the chocolate factory.

[carbondiamond]

Maybe some of us can get together some balmy day-we can enjoy a nice drink and then walk ourselves sober.

[Food4Thought]

And of course ther's Sullivans if you are planning on doing the South Boston-Castle Island / Pleasure Bay section.

[rlh]

If you're downtown and anywhere close to the Fort Point section, it would be tragic not to stop into Drink a couple of blocks away - some of the finest cocktails to be found - anywhere - though crowded at peak times

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Drink
348 Congress St, Boston, MA 02210

[carbondiamond]

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this post-we made it to Local 149 today after a short walk around the South End section of Harborwalk. The wind blew us into the restaurant and settled us happily at the bar. Service was friendly if a little chaotic (new staff) but rather prompt for a Sunday lunchtime. He had the breakfast tacos, I had bagel and boursin with a side of bacon. Food was nicely done. Drinks were fun-good marks for using the proper copper mug for the moscow mule. He had a hummingbird, which he enjoyed. Music was typical hipster mix played a little too loud, which was the only downside. Walked outside and was sober within minutes from the stiff breeze. All in all, a good way to spend a few hours and highly recommended for all. Looking forward to going to all the other places people suggested-thanks all!

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Local 149
149 P St, Boston, MA 02127

[carbondiamond]

Just came back from doing the Ft Point Channel section of Harborwalk-wow! Easy to find parking, lots of great choices for lunch and pleasant views. Did an appetizer with the husband at Legal Seafood (nice asian style mussels for me, calamari for him) then next door for Temezcal for a drink. We couldn't remember where Flour was but the very nice staff at the InterContinental gave us directions. Flour was a bit of a zoo, staff everywhere but no real order to the place. They gave us the wrong slice of cake but it was too crazy to try and get it corrected. The lime cornmeal cookie was good. All in all, Fort Point Channel is a nice area to take a good, long walk in between courses of a meal!