Boston recs

Baseball Tavern for the LSU game

Looking very forward to a little cool weather, I've been baking in New Orleans all summer.

Thanks for all the recs so far.
I'm a beer guy but will happily drink cocktails. We're mostly looking for a relax trip with good booze and food. We're also big oyster fans and I've heard there are a lot of bars that do $1 oysters Deals during the week. Any recs for good oyster places would be great as well.

Also, looking any places that do good happy hours for drinks on Thursday and fridays and the best place to booze in Fenway before the Sox game.

Holy shite, that's crazy. Happy hour oysters it is then

Here are a few places I'd recommend in the city for $1 oysters. I'd either check their website or call to make sure what days and times they have them available, though.

Cambridge Brewing Company (in Cambridge - this place also has good in-house craft beer)
Barlow's
Cinquecinto
La Brasa (in Somerville)

Harpoon is a great place to hang out, eat a pretzel, and drink beer. But the beer certainly isn't anything to lose your mind over. Much better than Sam Adams though.

For the Auburn game it should be a pretty fun environment.

Meh, the doubles thing is easy to get around. If you want, say, a double crown and coke, you just order a crown and coke and a shot of crown.

Unfortunately that mean a double costs about $20.

Just went to Boston a couple weeks ago for a bachelor party. We stayed in the North End and hit up several bars around there and went to several historical landmarks. It was neat walking amongst buildings that were so old and seeing cobblestone roads and such.

We didn't have time for a brewery tour or anything, but I wasn't at all impressed with the beer selection in taverns. Guinness was about the most far out thing I noticed at places. I'm a beer snob though so that's just me.

The area around Fenway is incredible! I've been wanting to go that park since I was a little kid and it didn't disappoint. Just an insane atmosphere.

We went to the Baseball Tavern when LSU played Chattanooga St. The bar is an alumni place for LSU, Wisconsin and Michigan St. and each game gets a dedicated viewing floor whether it be the first, second or rooftop floor. There was a guy there named Brian who was from Metairie I believe and he kinda coordinates everything for LSU I guess. He stayed behind the bar and played the fight song and neck and pretty much everything during the game. We're all LSU alums in our mid 20s so we were doing all the chants and dances and people really got into it. Once they Red Sox crowd shuffled in after their game they were just looking at us like we were aliens. Guess we weren't the normal LSU fans they get. I went to take a piss and the bartender was in there and he says Brian told me it'll be a slow night tonight, he was facking wrong! .

Also if there's one thing I recommend it's to go get some pizza from the original Regina's location in the North End. It was fantastic.

Yeah I figured I needed to branch out to find good beer but we were ubering everywhere and I didn't wanna go too far. I had been stoked about visiting Trillium the entire time and once we got there I realized that their location in the North End was just for filling growlers and such and that the taproom was like 45 minutes away so that was a bummer.

And yeah the Tavern got PACKED once the game let out. We went there the night before just to check everything out and it was almost like a Tigerland bar or something . Chicks in skimpy dresses and douchebags trying to pick them up. We just kinda made our own little place on the first floor near the entrance and still had a good time.

Brian told us about his food truck. I figured any Louisiana style food place there had to kick arse .

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Also they run a beer garden downtown, but not sure what date it shuts down.

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It's still open, but not on Mondays and Tuesdays. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe they'll close up shop for the season at the end of this month.