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The Hawthorne

Bar

Craft cocktails served in a snazzy hotel setting that feels like a modernist living room. People often mention cocktail, drinks, great, cocktails, good, nice, service, Boston, Great, drink,


Address

500 A Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215

Website

www.thehawthornebar.com

Contact

(617) 532-9150

Price rating

$$$ $

Rating on Google Maps

4.70 (360 reviews)

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Working Hours

Permanently closed.

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  • 5/5 Jay S. 4 years ago on Google
    Came here with a few friends for a birthday get together back in December and had a stellar time. Our server Grace was funny, friendly, and she knew the menu really well. She made us a round of daiquiris that I honestly still think about sometimes. Looking forward to the next visit
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  • 5/5 Enrique C. 4 years ago on Google
    Best place for a cocktail in Boston

  • 4/5 Amanda D. 4 years ago on Google
    Service was decent but the drinks were amazing

  • 5/5 Damien G. 4 years ago on Google
    Best cocktail bar ever !

  • 5/5 Phil P. 4 years ago on Google
    Great drinks and hospitality!

  • 5/5 Khoi V. 4 years ago on Google
    Fantastic place, for a bar in Boston, this place is spacious. It also offers many different seating areas. No loud music, great drinks and wonderful staffs.

  • 4/5 Suzan M. 4 years ago on Google
    I liked it hear and would recommend.

  • 5/5 Lauren Y. 4 years ago on Google
    Helpful staff who are enthusiastic to listen and figure out what you like and suggest something in your wheelhouse.

  • 5/5 Sean B. 4 years ago on Google
    Great spot for drinks

  • 5/5 jonathan b. 4 years ago on Google
    Best cocktails in the city. Take it from a local.

  • 5/5 James F. 4 years ago on Google
    Great private space for cocktails

  • 5/5 Arnold K. 4 years ago on Google
    Always a great place for chilling & relaxing!

  • 5/5 Kelly K. 4 years ago on Google
    My husband and I don't go as often as we did when we lived in Fenway, but it's an amazing cocktail bar with great small plates. One of our top places to check out when in Boston. It has a great atmosphere, for a romantic date or fun night out with friends.

  • 1/5 Ryan D. 4 years ago on Google
    On a waitlist.

  • 5/5 Paul L. 4 years ago on Google
    Really nice place.

  • 5/5 Doug F. 4 years ago on Google
    This is one of the more serious traditionalist bars in Boston. If you want any classic drink made to the highest standards, whether theyโ€™re yours or left up to the bartendersโ€™ discretion, look no further. Would recommend for anyone looking to avoid rowdy Fenway in this sleek, sophisticated, subterranean hideaway.

  • 4/5 BeantownEater 4 years ago on Google
    Came here, for a friend's birthday. She had a section reserved where there was food like Devil eggs, Salmon platter, Goat Cheese, Soft pretzel, veggie sliders, oyster sliders, lemon tarts & Cake. Everything was good. The presentation was on point . The service was wonderful. Our waiter made sure all out needs were met. The Moscow mule was well mixed. A bit pricey, but definitely worth it for the overall experience.

  • 5/5 Darren S. 5 years ago on Google
    One of the best bars in the area. Amazing drinks and super friendly and professional staff who can help you find the perfect drink for your mood. The decor is modern and fresh and the place is very clean. If you are in the BU/Kenmore area looking for a nice bar to have drinks with friends and socialize than there is no better choice than The Hawthorne.

  • 5/5 Netiwat p. 5 years ago on Google
    Really enjoy coming to this place. They know those drink. Just order whatever u like and they will make it happen. Simply the best place to get a drink around this area. If you like quality cocktail this place is for you. It is not cheap but well worth the money

  • 5/5 Miro K. 7 years ago on Google
    One of the best craft cocktail bars in Boston. On or off the menu, you will get a delicious cocktail. Food is great too. Do yourself a favor and check this place out.

  • 5/5 Zack D. 4 years ago on Google
    A wonderful experience. This place is a classic hotel cocktail bar. Name a drink, they know it, they'll make it. Enjoy.

  • 5/5 Nick A. 7 years ago on Google
    One of the best cocktail bars I know that is never really mentioned. The bartenders are fantastic and will happily make something on or off the menu. There are not a huge number of seats and they never let the place become packed enough to feel crowded. Worth dressing up for a nice date out.

  • 5/5 Sean P. 6 years ago on Google
    A fantastic after-work retreat with cool ambiance, plenty of seating and friendly bartenders. The cocktails are generally very good and priced competitively with the other high-brow bar down the street. The food is not amazing, but perfectly adequate. Ask the bartenders if they've been experimenting with any new cocktails, you can usually get something novel and delicious.

  • 5/5 Trevor K. 6 years ago on Google
    The perfect bar for any celebration big or small. Great heading there with a good friend for a fantastic cocktail too. A little pricier but it's clear what you're paying for. The atmosphere is great, it has a nice layout, and the music has a perfect mix of bass to treble. I've taken a good amount of friends and family there, who all love it too (although I'd avoid the pretzels because of the freezing cold cheese it's served with...). The drinks are great and I've always had perfect service. I'd highly recommend making this a regular spot.

  • 5/5 Ryan S. 4 years ago on Google
    Boujee as the kids say

  • 4/5 Tim M. 3 years ago on Google
    Best cocktails in Boston. True mixologists. 4.5 stars.

  • 5/5 Wes H. 4 years ago on Google
    There's a charming, living room vibe here. It's technically a hotel bar, but it certainly doesn't feel like it. Their bar menu is really great, the service is professional and friendly. A fun place to go for a slightly upscale round. I didn't try the food, but there seemed to be some good bar snack options!

  • 5/5 Craig C. 4 years ago on Google
    If you long for the way that bars "used to be," or how they're portrayed in classic films and novels, make your way down to The Hawthorne. The first thing that will greet you is the ambiance, the well-leveled music, plush and comfortable chairs, chatter from other patrons. This is what a drinking establishment should feel like. Not cacophonous, dim, or faux-luxe'd with a package deal from Wayfair. Make your way to the bar, and have a seat. Boasting a bible-thick list of wines, spirits, and aperitifs, along with plenty of quality cider and beer offerings, the Hawthorne truly has something for everyone. The prices are more than fair and don't suffer from the inflation that other enthusiast oriented establishments do. Where this bar really shines, though, is the service from the bartenders, who take their craft extremely seriously. Attentive, inventive, and creative, they make amazing cocktails that transcend the classic roots on which they're based and climb into an ethereal level that is not often found. If you're hungry, you'll find the food offerings more than adequate. Presentation is fantastic and the portions are well-suited to sharing, or chowing down alone to quell an appetite and stay for another glass of rare spirits. Again, prices are very fair and do not carry the sticker shock that similar establishments often leave you with.

  • 1/5 Jared P. 4 years ago on Google
    Horrible service. Once the bartender's friends arrived, us out of town guests were forgotten about. If it wasn't for the upcoming holiday, both bartenders would have received a minimal tip. We were seated waiting for a refill for over 20 mins and decided to leave to spend money else where. Do not bother with this place, completely overrated.

  • 5/5 Kelly K. 4 years ago on Google
    The best mixologists I've ever had the pleasure of being served by. I would just describe some elements that sounded good and trust them to make me whatever they saw fit, which led to THE BEST cocktails I've ever had. The menu and specials are superb but I highly recommend just telling them about your palette and preferences and giving them free reign. These people know their way behind the bar like nobody's business. The staff is super cool and personable, the space is cozy, and did I mention how good these cocktails are?

  • 3/5 Mary S. 4 years ago on Google
    Meh. Nothing to get excited about. It's certainly wasn't awful, but not at all a destination. Service was mediocre, and nothing about the cocktail list was exciting.

  • 4/5 John H. 5 years ago on Google
    Went here on my birthday.I mixed drinks were great. We got a bunch of the appetizers, deviled eggs were good. Grilled cheese was good. The only thing I could say is that our waiter stopped by way too often. But other than that he was fantastic.

  • 5/5 Shannon M. 3 years ago on Google
    Visited on Sat I believe. Looking forward to returning with my relatives.

  • 5/5 Joon han P. 3 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) expensive. However, the taste of food does not betray. Raw oyster is too expensive compared to Korea, but it is recommended to try it. I don't remember exactly, but it seems that there were more than 10 types. The Slider with fried oyster is really delicious, and it was the best I've ever had lobster pasta. Clam chowder is also delicious, but personally I think it's better to just eat it in a cheap and plentiful place full of cold in Boston. The location is within 10 minutes walk from panway park. So it is too hard to park. The traffic jam around is also a real level of hell .. If you still want to take a car, there are some places where you can park your valet around. If possible, I recommend using public transportation. (Original) ๋น„์‹ธ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์Œ์‹ ๋ง›์€ ๋ฐฐ์‹ ์„ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. Raw oyster๋„ ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋น„์‹ธ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ผญ ๋จน์–ด๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ถ”์ฒœ. ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๊ธฐ์–ต ์•ˆ๋‚˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ข…๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ 10๊ฐ€์ง€๋„ ๋„˜์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ํŠ€๊ธด ๊ตด์ด ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ„ Slider๋„ ์ง„์งœ ๋ง›์žˆ๊ณ , ๋ž์Šคํ„ฐ ํŒŒ์Šคํƒ€๋„ ๋จน์–ด ๋ณธ ๊ฒƒ ์ค‘ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜€๋‹ค. ํด๋žจ์ฐจ์šฐ๋”๋„ ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ํŽธ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋ณด์Šคํ„ด์— ์ฐจ๊ณ  ๋„˜์น˜๋Š” ์‹ธ๊ณ  ์–‘๋งŽ์€ ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๋จน๋Š”๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ์œ„์น˜๊ฐ€ panway park์—์„œ ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ 10๋ถ„ ๋‚ด๋กœ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ์ง€ ์ฃผ์ฐจํ•˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋นก์„ธ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ์œ„ traffic jam๋„ ์ง„์งœ ํ—ฌ์ˆ˜์ค€.. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ๊ตณ์ด ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์œผ๋ฉด ์ฃผ์œ„์— ๋ฐœ๋ › ํŒŒํ‚น์„ ํ•ด์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ณณ์ด ์žˆ๊ธด ํ•œ๋ฐ ๋งŒ์•ฝ ๋ ˆ๋“œ์‚ญ์Šค์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‚ ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๋น„์‹ธ๋‹ค. ์›ฌ๋งŒํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋Œ€์ค‘๊ตํ†ต์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•œ๋‹ค.

  • 5/5 Andrew M. 4 years ago on Google
    Great bar with an outstanding spirit selection.

  • 5/5 Tim S. 4 years ago on Google
    Friendly and knowledgable bartenders.

  • 5/5 Amine B. 4 years ago on Google
    Amazing place for it's mellow, cozy atmosphere but also for the impressive aged rum selection!! I'll be back for some after work drinks or to spend some nice moments with friends. Thank you!

  • 5/5 Karina T. 4 years ago on Google
    Love the vibe here, must go and have some of their delicious cocktails.

  • 4/5 E S. 4 years ago on Google
    Love the atmosphere and the cocktail drinks. Who knew that there could be four to five different ways to make a hot toddy. Definitely a place to go and hang up with grown adults who know how to appreciate a good drink.

  • 5/5 Tony Y. 4 years ago on Google
    I asked about the turmeric in the fridge and was soon presented with a mezcal curry cocktail that is fantastic.

  • 2/5 Charles C. 4 years ago on Google
    Nice drinks, nice atmosphere, but painfully slow service. One hour for a single drink, had to ask for a check because both my cocktail and water glasses ran dry.

  • 5/5 Tony O. 4 years ago on Google
    We loved this spot.. The food was really good. The drinks were also made great & service was also good. Definitely a great spot!

  • 3/5 Frank A. 4 years ago on Google
    Very nice ambiance. OK drinks. Very slow service.

  • 5/5 Michael M. 4 years ago on Google
    Great bar

  • 5/5 Margarita M. 4 years ago on Google
    Good house cocktails and, even more suggesting of quality, they made the cocktails we asked for outside of the menu really well (asked for a fire negroni and a penicillin).

  • 5/5 Justine H. 4 years ago on Google
    Very nice cocktail bar. The staff is great. Loved the experience

  • 5/5 Arnold L. 4 years ago on Google
    Great cocktails and staff


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Amenities


  • Offerings
    • โœ“๏ธ Beer
    • โœ“๏ธ Food
    • โœ“๏ธ Wine
    • โœ“๏ธ Alcohol
    • โœ“๏ธ Cocktails
    • โœ“๏ธ Hard liquor
  • Accessibility
    • โœ“๏ธ Wheelchair accessible entrance
  • Dining options
    • โœ“๏ธ Seating
  • Service options
    • โœ“๏ธ Dine-in
    • โœ“๏ธ Takeout
    • โœ“๏ธ Outdoor seating

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