About

What this is

Last Call is an independent guide to going out in Boston and the towns around it: bars, live music, late food, what a beer costs and the last train home. It covers 14 areas and 225 listed places so far, for adults 21 and over.

How places are chosen

A place gets listed when it's open to the public, has a real address and a working website or public listing, and fits a night out. Every listing shows its sources and the date it was last checked. We tag a place Open late only when its own published hours show a late close, and we link that page. Venues don't pay to be listed or ranked.

Where the numbers come from

• Beer Index. Prices are copied from each bar's own menu, with the menu link and the date we looked. Where a menu doesn't state a pour size we don't guess one. How we count it.
• Ratings. Google rating and review count, with the date we read them. Review themes are Google's own topic counts, not our opinion.
• Cannabis Index. Licensed Massachusetts stores' listed prices, for adults 21+. Data: Glass (glassintel.xyz). See the Index.
• Last Train. Live from the MBTA's public data. We don't print static train times because they change.
• Hours. Only from a venue's own published page, linked from the listing.

What we leave out

If we can't find a fact on a public page, it doesn't go in. That means some listings are short on purpose. We don't publish health claims about cannabis, we don't suggest using it in public or with alcohol, and nothing here is aimed at anyone under 21.

Corrections

Hours and lineups change, and places close. If something is wrong, email corrections@bostonlastcall.com with the page link and what to fix. We re-check and update the page and its checked date.

Image credits

Most pictures on this site are original screenprint-style illustrations made for this site with GPT Image: the section icons, venue and guide drawings, and the neighborhood plates. The neighborhood plates borrow a few well-known landmarks, and the venue drawings show the kind of place, not the room itself. Where a real photograph of the actual place exists under a free license, we use that instead, cropped and given one warm color grade. Each photograph is listed below with its author, license and file page on Wikimedia Commons.

• Boston Back Bay skyline at night by Chris Rycroft, CC BY 2.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. The Back Bay skyline at night across the Charles River, with the Prudential and Hancock towers lit above the reflections.
• Central Square at Night by Eric Kilby, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square, Cambridge, at night, with car light trails running up the street between lit buildings.
• Night shot of the Old State House, Boston by Vernon Burton, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. The brick Old State House at night in downtown Boston, with office towers lit behind it.
• Fenway Park night game by Vegasjon, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. A night game at Fenway Park, with the crowd in the stands and the Green Monster beyond the field.
• Looking east on Merrimack Street at twilight by Emw, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. Merrimack Street in downtown Lowell at twilight, with street lights coming on and a bookstore sign at upper left.
• Old Town Hall at night (Salem, Massachusetts) by Freddy eduardo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. The brick Old Town Hall in Salem lit up at night, with warm light in its windows.
• Boston Harbor and Skyline View Fan Pier HDR by Katie Haugland Bowen, CC BY 2.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. The Boston skyline and tall ships over the harbor at dusk, seen from Fan Pier in the Seaport.
• Somerville Theater at night by Troy Sankey, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. The lit marquee of the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square at night, with the crowd out front after a film.
• Forest Hills Station at night by John Stephen Dwyer, Public domain. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. Inside Forest Hills station in Jamaica Plain at night, with the big clock and the lit concourse.
• 39 bus at Back Bay at night by Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. An MBTA articulated bus waiting at night at the Back Bay station busway.
• Boston skyline at dusk from Jeffries Point by 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. The Financial District skyline at dusk from East Boston, an orange afterglow over the harbor.
• Plaza by the Back Bay MBTA station at night by Chris Rycroft, CC BY 2.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. The plaza by Back Bay station after dark, with lit brick storefronts.
• Acorn Street at Night by K Danko, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. Acorn Street on Beacon Hill at night, a cobbled lane of brick houses under gas-style lamps.
• Boston Custom House Tower at Night by Emmanuel Huybrechts, CC BY 2.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. The Custom House Tower clock lit over a Boston street at dusk.
• Allston Evening, 2010 by Ethan Long, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. Harvard Avenue in Allston at dusk, with lit shopfronts and a crosswalk signal under a blue evening sky.
• Marquee at Pilgrim Theatre on Washington Street by City Censor, City of Boston (Boston City Archives, via Flickr Commons), CC BY 2.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. The marquee of the Pilgrim Theatre on Washington Street in Boston's Combat Zone, about 1960 to 1968, billing an adults-only double feature (black and white photograph).
• Boylston St., near Hereford St., Boston by Eric Kilby, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. Boylston Street near Hereford Street in Boston at night in 2007, red traffic lights under a deep blue sky.
• Red Line train at Charles MGH at night by 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. An outbound Red Line train with its headlight on at the Charles/MGH station platform at night, October 2024.
• South Street Diner in Boston at night by 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. The South Street Diner in Boston at night in March 2025, its windows lit and the sign glowing in the dark.
• Wally's Cafe, Boston Massachusetts by John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. The red doors and hanging sign of Wally's Cafe on Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, photographed in 2012.
• Allston Cafe Final Night by Ethan Long, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. A crowd on the sidewalk of Harvard Avenue in Allston at night on the last night of the Allston Cafe, 2010.
• Boston skyline at dusk from Jeffries Point, East Boston by 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. The lit Boston skyline across the harbor at dusk, seen from Jeffries Point in East Boston, November 2025.
• Hanover Street, North End by Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. Hanover Street in Boston's North End on a Saturday night in 2018, the restaurants lit along the street.
• Sacco's Bowl Haven by Tim Sackton (Flickr: sackton), CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. The candlepin lanes at Sacco's Bowl Haven in Davis Square, Somerville, under the Bowl Haven sign (2016).
• Harpoon Brewery in South Boston by NewtonCourt, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and resized, with a slightly warm color grade. The brewing tanks and the orange Harpoon Brewery sign outside the Harpoon Brewery in South Boston, 2019.