Night Shift Brewing’s seasonal beer garden takes over Dewey Square Plaza with local drafts served outdoors in the heart of downtown. It is one of the Greenway’s longest-running summer food and drink residencies, open to the public with no ticket required.
Boston’s official restaurant week returns with two weeks of prix fixe menus at restaurants across the city and surrounding neighborhoods, with lunch priced at $27, $32, or $36 and dinner at $38, $46, or $55. No tickets or passes needed – just ask for the Dine Out Boston menu, though reservations are strongly encouraged.
The South End’s flagship Sunday market pairs 175-plus artist booths and food trucks with a lively beer garden featuring rotating local brewery takeovers each week. Wander the vintage stalls and farmers’ stands with a cold craft pour in hand, lawn games underway and live music drifting across the courtyard. Free to enter, endlessly browsable, and…
Boston’s hometown brewery runs short guided tastings seven days a week, pouring you through the IPA, UFO and seasonal lineup while a guide walks you past the gleaming fermentation tanks. The Seaport beer hall hums with the smell of warm pretzels and fresh hops, and you can linger afterward with a full pour overlooking the…
Harvard Square goes car-free for its 47th Oktoberfest: beer gardens, food and craft vendors, and the gloriously loud HONK! activist street-band parade rolling in from Somerville. It routinely draws over 100,000 people in a single day — take the Red Line, and come hungry.
Boston’s oldest continuous Italian festival — running since 1910 — packs the North End with food stalls, brass bands, and processions for four nights. Come Sunday evening for the Flight of the Angel over Fleet Street, when a young girl descends on wires through a blizzard of confetti to close the feast.
The D+D Beer Garden plants two of Boston’s homegrown breweries — worker-owned Democracy Brewing of Downtown Crossing and family-run Distraction Brewing of Roslindale — right on the brick expanse of City Hall Plaza. From spring into fall, the seasonal setup pours their locally made beers alongside wine and seltzers, with food from Roslindale’s Jimmies Café,…
Boston Public Market sits at 100 Hanover Street between Haymarket and the Greenway, a year-round indoor market where every vendor has New England roots. The drinking is surprisingly good for a grocery run: George Howell pulls some of the city’s most respected coffee, Mother Juice presses plant-powered blends, and Red Apple Farm — a four-generation…
Lamplighter’s original brewery and taproom sits on Broadway in Cambridge, an easy walk from Central Square and MIT, and once a month — on the first Saturday — it opens its production floor for a guided tour and tasting. Staff walk you through the essentials of how their inventive beers get made, from grain to…
Aeronaut pours its famously experimental beers inside a cavernous converted factory a short walk from Somerville’s Union Square, and the taproom operates less like a bar than a neighborhood clubhouse with fermentation science underneath. Founded by science-grad-student homebrewers, the brewery keeps a deep draft list running from flagship IPAs to small-batch oddities, plus cider, wine,…
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