Best of Boston
Best Pickup Bar
Lolita
Boston
A good pickup bar needs two things: a classy atmosphere, and really strong drinks. At Lolita, bartenders pour more than 50 varieties of tequila in [...] read more»
2012 Best Pickup Bar
Woodward at the Ames
Boston
When you're looking for someone to pick up what you're puttin' down, try the Ames hotel's saloon, where a glass-topped bar and stainless steel accents [...] read more»
2011 Best Pickup Bar
Towne Stove and Spirits
Boston
If Towne isn't a pickup bar, then everybody must have something stuck in their teeth. Why else would so many people be looking at so [...] read more»
2009 Best Pickup Bar, Sugar Mommies
Bokx 109
Newton
It's cougar season year-round at this sizzling restaurant-bar, where prime specimens purr over glasses of ros and flash their tanned, toned legs from cushy booths. [...] read more»
2009 Best Pickup Bar, Boho Beer Snobs
The Publick House
Brookline
At Brookline's artisan-suds mecca, a vintage Son Volt tour tee will get you further with the aging hipster crowd than any designer finery; let it [...] read more»
2009 Best Pickup Bar, Personal Chef
Eastern Standard
Boston
Want an S.O. who can actually cook (or do the dishes)? Check out the long marble bar late on Sunday night, when the city's hot, [...] read more»
2009 Best Pickup Bar, Last Year's Alibi Regulars
MiniBar
Boston
Status-minded locals and their lithe European counterparts suck down lychee martinis while scouting the crowd (and sizing up the competition). The must-have accessory: a glamorous-sounding [...] read more»
2009 Best Pickup Bar, Girls Out on a Girls' Night Out
Cuchi Cuchi
Cambridge
For bevies of dressed-to-the-nines bachelorettes and BFFs, a night at this dark-lit speakeasy may begin as female bonding, but fast-forward three margaritas later, and watch [...] read more»
2009 Best Pickup Bar, Sugar Daddies
Davio’s
Boston
Those who like their men as rich as a well-marbled rib-eye frequent this wood-paneled, martini-soaked Italian steakhouse packed with Mad Men wannabes, both of the [...] read more»
2008 Best Pickup Bar
Beehive
Boston
It's easy to agree on where to mingle if you and your posse are bent on skimming from the same pool, whether that's just-graduated daddy's [...] read more»
2007 Best Pickup Bar
Foundation Lounge
Boston
"Pickup bar" may evoke images of oily, used-car guys with thatches of chest hair bursting from half-buttoned shirts, but you won't find much of that [...] read more»