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From: "Sam Smith" <sam@lullabypit.com>
> Whatever you do, find your way up to John Harvard's in Cambridge 
> Square (33 Dunster St., just off the T stop, as I recall) and pray 
> that they have the milk stout on tap that night. And the meatloaf is 
> amazing.

That's actually Harvard Square -- in fact, John Harvard's is right 
next door to the Garage, home of the Newbury Comics I was mentioning. 
It's pretty good, but for bar food in Harvard Square, I would also 
recommend Grendel's Den (on Winthrop Street, in a basement just behind 
the common) and Charlie's Kitchen on Eliot Street, which does killer 
steak tips and has the best jukebox in town.

But the best bar in town is the original Bukowski's, on Dalton Street 
just off Boylston in the Back Bay.  The food is excellent (disclosure: 
my friend Jason's brother is the head chef), and along with the 
incredibly extensive beer menu, they also have a handy feature called 
The Wheel Of Indecision: the bartender spins the wheel and whatever it 
lands on, that's what you get.  There's the small risk that you'll be 
stuck with a Schlitz, but it's a small price to pay.

S