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  • 0

    If you are over 25, seriously don't even try come in here unless you wanna feel super awkward or you are already intoxicated enough that you do not care.  IF you fit that happy careless population of 21-25 year old students that thrive in the area, this can't really be beat.  You do not come here to watch the game or make conversation, you come here to get trashed for as little money as possible, and that is not bad a thing.  Enjoy your youth!

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  • 0

    Your very own dive bar, right in Cleveland Circle. Get a slice at Pino's across the street to build a foundation and then head on over for a $2 Busch Light. The place smells something between Lysol and urine but is a great place for cheep drinks and college girls. Enjoy!

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    We came here on my boss's recommendation, who graduated from BC years ago.  

    All I can say is...man.  The whiff of stale beer, old vomit, and dirty mop water baked into the floors really gets to you as soon as you walk in the door.

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    Cheap booze, and lots of students. Lots and lots of students.
    Probably not the best place if you are looking to have a quiet drink and chat, but definitely funny if you want a laught.
    Not recommended from anyone over 24.
    I'm 29 and I am pretty sure I was older than everyone in the bar by at least 6 years.

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  • 0

    Cheap beer and drinks are good, but my favorite thing is having a kid who cannot stand on his own scream compliments on my glasses into my ear while his friend who smells like knockoff cologne running down the leg of a Californian dentist's daughter accidentally touches me in my fat.  

    FOUR STARS: Would have been better if I had time machine to go back to when I had no responsibilities and getting drunk was a group activity.

    (LOL!!! TMI!!!!!11)

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  • 0

    Oh GOD. I am way too old for Mary Ann's. I've lived up the hill from Mary Ann's for a month and a half now and haven't been ballsy enough to set foot inside until last Saturday night when a Cambridge/Allston/Brighton dive bar crawl culminated with a beer here.

    +I can walk home from here.
    +My Bud Light came in a bottle and was like 3 bucks.
    +The bouncers didn't stop me from taking my beer home with me.

    -Everyone in here is an 18 year-old douche.
    -Glass all over the floor.
    -BFF tried to go to the bathroom and almost crouched in someone's garden instead of using the one here.
    -Can't. Breathe. Can't Move.

    I would have loved Mary Ann's when I was 21, but now that I'm closer to the other end of that decade, it's just a little too much.

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  • 0

    If you want a dive bar and a place to perv on sweet undergrads...this is the place for you! Mixed drinks 5 bucks! Beer's one dollah man! The music situation is a bit suspect as they have a juke box with things like Maroon 5 and The Rolling Stones...HOWEVER, you're so drunk with cheap booze to ever care. What!? Sure I'll sing "Don't Stop Believing" (even though sober, you hate that song) ironically with a slew of BC undergrad frat boys!

    This place is mostly known as BC hang out, and why not? It's T accessible as accessible gets! Mary Ann's being right in front of  a C line T stop and across the way from good greasy eats like Pino's Pizza and Chipotle....this is an undergrad mecca!  Sure it kinda smells of pee and beer, but remember DIVE BAR! The bar staff and bouncers are friendly and if you're not an undergrad here's the one annoying bit. They make you sign into the bar...why? I dunno, but doesn't it make you feel young like you're in the dorms again...awwwww.

    To truely enjoy this place for what it is you have to be either A. A BC youngin' B. Drunk...very very Drunk.

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  • 0

    Almost every review is a 4/5 or a 1. There's a reason: it's a true shithole that doubles as a meat market for underage BC students Thursday-Saturday. Students love the horribleness of it, and I can see why, but for anyone else it's probably one of the worst dive bars in the area.

    $1.75 Busch Light, aka licking a Robot's asshole - that's how metallic this crap tastes, drafts. That's all you'll be drinking here as other beers are surprisingly high priced (I think it's like $3.50 for a Coors Light) compared to Roggie's and Cityside (where they are $2 for drafts).

    The place is empty until about 10pm. Right then, the place becomes a shitshow, full of BC undergrads who are probably a year or two away from legality. It literally becomes nearly impossible to move around the place by 11:30-12.

    The bathroom door doesn't lock, I'm told because kids will go in there puke and pass out with the door all locked up. So, if you need to take care of business, expect someone to walk in on you (which can be hilarious when you see it happen over and over). The bartenders rush around and generally have bad attitudes.

    All in all, this is Mary Ann's. And it's awesome in its own disgusting,
    terrible way.

    Full disclosure: I am a current BC grad student and I feel wonderfully old and out of place every time I come here. Cityside is more of the grad school bar.

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  • 0

    I don't have a reason for giving Mary Ann's five stars.

    Serves possibly the worst gin and tonic in America for $2.50, Busch Light drafts for $1.75.  You are literally a king at Mary Ann's if you have more than ten dollars in your pocket.  Lines around the building after 10:00 most Tuesdays, Thursdays, and weekends.  I cannot conceive of anyone other than Boston College students ever going here, but feel free to visit regardless--especially if you enjoy John Denver sing-alongs and no food or seating.

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  • 0

    Absolutely sucks. Smells like old beer and urine. The front windows are boarded up.
    In other words, it's perfect.

    Get's  a little broey from time to time, but that's nothing putting a dollar in the jukebox to play the 9-minute long live version of Slayer's hell awaits next won't fix.

    Drinks are cheap too.

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  • 0

    This place is such a dump and it smells exactly the same when I first stepped into this place in 1989. That's why I'm giving it a 3 star. 3 stars is great for this place.

    I can't say I ever called it one of my stomping grounds back in the days, but I will catch up with friends who are in town who are feeling nostalgic and need to stop in to Mary Ann's during their trip to the B.

    Dougie Hurley, one of the resident bartenders, is my boy and everyone's boy. I'm sure he is still there serving $1 drafts.

    Its one of the last remaining dive bars from the 80s. That's saying a lot.

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  • 0

    Mary Ann's is the true epitome of a dive bar.  For the longest time I believed that this place was not even open because of it's "boarded up" facade and iconic top sign reading "BAR"  From the outside in Mary Ann's screams dive bar and makes no apologies for it.

    It definitely trends to the BC crowd, but any young professional, visiting student etc can drop in for a good cheap time.  In fact, I believe MA's has the cheapest vodka redbull in town at 4.50.  My Starbucks mocha costs that much!

    Hints:
    It will likely be quiet when class is not in session (late june - early august)
    If it is quiet beware of the juke box because it will blast and certainly draw attention to you.
    CASH ONLY

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  • 0

    Oh dear god.  I'm sorry, this is the stinkiest dive bar I've ever been in, smelling (at 5 pm on a Monday afternoon) worst than it probably did the night before -- of puke, cheap beer (well actually relatively expensive beer, considering) from a dirty tap, and urine.

    I'm sure it's fun for the BC bunch.  Everyone needs a solid dive bar, but Mary Ann's? Oy...

    You're probably wondering what the heck I was doing at this bar at 5pm on Monday, but do I really need to explain?  Dive bars should be accessible and give you that lovely dive bar vibe without the smell worst than that of a dumpster/homeless person.  I also bought a Stella because I knew the best chance I had to get the smell out of my nose was to drink a heavy hitting beer and Stella was the best choice available.  Next time: straight to the cheap well vodka.

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  • 0

    People tend to exaggerate how bad this place is. It's not luxurious or spacious, but it's not an absolute dump either. College towns are full of these places, but there aren't many in Boston, so I can see how Mary Ann's may be unfamiliar and off-putting to some people. Still, as college bars go, this is a decent one.  You can get blasted cheap by pounding the $1.75 Busch Light drafts and you can hang out with lots of BC bros and hos while listening to top-40 songs made between 2000 and now.  If you like the sound of that, you'll love this place, even if they don't have enough bartenders and you have to sign in your ID when you enter.

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  • 0

    I have come here a couple times and once my friend wanted his birthday drinks here.  No idea why.

    First of all, they are a cash only bar.  Seriously?  I had no idea when I arrived and thankfully had enough to buy him one beer.  Secondly, it was completely dead and there may have been 4 other people there.  Granted, it was a cold night and a weekday but that certainly does not stop many other bars from being frequented.  Thirdly, the bartender seemed to hate his job and looked like he preferred being anywhere but serving us drinks.

    I guess the prices are decent and it is close to the train but really not my cup of tea.

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  • 0

    A one-star, and I mean it in the best way possible.

    I mean, you're looking for a dive, wouldn't you WANT to see a lower rating?

    I paid $5 for a Harpoon IPA. It did not taste fresh. It was then easily determined that most people that come to Mary Ann's don't order Harpoon. They probably order Busch Light, Miller Light, Bud Light, or on a good day, PBR.

    If you're looking for an old-dirty-STD-ravaged-Don'tStopBelievin'-3-times-­a-night kind of bar, Mary Ann's is your dive.

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  • 0

    As far as dive bars go, this place is quality!!!  Busch Light on tap for $1.75, PBR in the bottle, weird mirrors lining the walls, and faux stained glass on the ceiling.  Quality!  They also have an old school basketball shooting game in the corner and a punching bag game to test your whiskey muscles.  The jukebox is full of old Journey and Foreigner tunes.  Again, quality!  

    I was in here on a weekday and it was pretty tame but I've heard it can get rather rowdy on the weekends with drunk BC students.  Not exactly my scene but if you're into checking out a fun dive and maybe having a cheap beer and a good laugh you should try Mary Ann's.

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  • 0

    Crowded, gross and full of people you probably would not want to hang out with unless you really enjoy a frattastic environment. They also make you "sign in" with your name, address, and license number. No Thanks.

    This place is a dump, and not even a nice American dump... more like a third world dump.

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    If you're a BC student, you'll love it. You'll always know just about every person in the bar, and the drinks are dirt cheap. What else could you possibly ask for in a college bar?

    After graduating, you'll come back years later bewildered by the smell. Seriously. In four years, I never noticed that the whole place reeks of fetid pools of bodily fluids (though I once had a friend vomit under the vending machine back in college). But the memories you have from your college days will keep you coming back about once a year to reminisce.

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  • 0

    I'm a BC grad... and I can tell you that as long as you go to Boston College, you will have fun at Mary Ann's. Whats better than having a ton of people you know, dirt cheap beer (I think $1.50 Drafts?), a crappy bathroom, basketball hoops game, close to campus and no BU kids? Nada.
    Much better than going ShittySide... full of townies trying to hit on college girls.
    Anyway, dont write anything if you didnt go to BC. We love our worst bar in Boston.

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  • 0

    Yea...Not a big fan of scary anns... This is a hole in the wall where all the windows are blacked out.  The place smells like piss and old beer.  The guys here are all "yaaa dooooods".  This place averages about 5 bar fights a hour and the bartenders specialty is a jack and coke.  If you are in the area i would prefer to walk across the street and go to cityside

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  • 0

    This bar rocks. Total dive bar, cheap beers (Busch Light for 1.75), no cover, small and crowded (at least on Friday and Saturday nights), fun games, juke box. I love it.

    The staff seems a little grizzly, but the other positive aspects outweigh any discomfort/fear when ordering another beer.

    If you are into dive bars, I highly suggest coming here. It's almost impossible to not have a blast/get blasted.

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  • 0

    When I first got to BC, I heard all of the legends from Mary Ann's and how wild it used to be. While things have tamed down, due to the police doing a little bit of crackdown business on the place, I grew to love MA's and (shamefully) have found myself venturing back there post-college.

    If you didn't go to BC, you will not enjoy it as much as BC people do, but there's still a small chance. You don't go to MA's to dance. You don't go there for quality conversation. You don't dress up to go. You don't go out on a date there. MA's is there for you to get hammered and have fun. If you're going out to grab "a" drink, don't bother. If you're going out with 20$ and want to drink Busch Light drafts, you found your new hotspot.

    MA's is in Cleveland Circle right off the C Line Cleveland Circle stop, B Line Chestnut Hill Avenue stop, or D Line Reservoir stop. On Tuesday nights, especially after 10, there will be a line. A long line. Same goes for when Roggies trivia gets out on Wednesdays, or when Happy Hour lets out on Thursdays.

    If you have a Mass ID, you are usually fine and just need to sign in at the door. If you're out of state, you MUST have backup photo ID and generally a credit/debit card.

    Music comes out of a jukebox in the back of the bar. Good selection, have to pay for it, and everyone has the ability to pay extra to skip your song. Kind-of sucks, but whatever. Basketball game in the other corner, photohunt, a couple of videogames in the back, a punching machine, and a vending machine that's never been touched round out the establishment.

    Bottles are about $2.75-$4.50. Deals on Brubaker and Busch Light bottles, and Busch Light drafts are $1.50. Shots and mixed drinks are reasonable, and your "shots" are doubles to 2.5s, as they are not served in shot glasses but in cups.

    The bathrooms are hilarious. The girl's bathroom I'm heard about, but, to give you an idea of the Men's bathroom... envision 2 urinals next to eachother, no dividing wall. Behind the second urinal, there is a toilet. So, if someone decides that they need to take a seat (Never seen this, would be hilarious), they have a view of the ass of the person peeing at the urinal. No mirror. There will be someone puking.... if not in the toilet, it will be in the trash can.

    There are a few new flat screens around which is nice but unless it's an off-night, nobody will be paying attention to them. The main bartender, Chris, is a good dude. He has been there for years and makes a good drink. And you can have as many of them as you want because nobody inside, or outside, will be looking (No windows).

    Basically, if you want to go completely wild and do it on a budget, this is the bar to go to.......

    ........ but only if you're ready to deal with hammered undergrads.

    ***CASH ONLY!*** Although there is an ATM in there.

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  • 0

    Yeah, I'm one of those BC grads that didn't get Mary Ann's.  I only went once, on a Friday with some friends, and it was fairly empty (it was 100 Days night, we were performing in a show and couldn't go).  It was fun, but I think that's because I knew pretty much everyone there (and I got to play basketball).

    I'm sure it's great if you a. go to BC, and b. know a ton of people there, but a good deal of my friends didn't go, so there really wasn't anything in it for me.  I preferred going to the Mods for drunk run-ins with classmates.  (and freshman, who I judged and confused while sitting on my friend's picnic table... hey guys, where's Mod 1?)

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  • 0

    I'm going to echo Joe B. on the 5-stars for BCers, 1-star for everyone else trend.  If you have no affiliation with Boston College, MA's is probably best avoided (if you can manage to skirt the people lined up all the way to Dunkin Donuts on a Tuesday night).  If you are an Eagle, on the other hand, you don't even need to be reading this review because you spent a good part of your senior year chugging Busch Light and playing Photo Hunt at Mary Ann's and already know what it's like.

    Either way, Mary Ann's has been a BC institution since 1974 and shows no signs of going anywhere anytime soon, despite countless raids by the Boston Police. The result of this, by the way, is that without a Massachusetts ID or U.S. Passport, you have to sign in your attendance at the sketchy entrance. Make every effort to use to bathroom before you go, because once you've waited out the line for one of two stalls in the ladies' room, you just might find that they are so small that you don't quite fit in.  You also might overhear a horrifying conservation about "how AJ was conceived in this bathroom." Scary - but not surprising.  

    Bar food is not an issue to be rated at MA's, because there is none.  Not even fresh limes for the drinks - asking for a vodka soda with extra lime just gets you an extra squirt of lime juice.  If you're starving, there's always the sole vending machine which sells items that have probably expired while you were in third grade (I'm not sure that Buggles are even produced anymore), but I suppose it's an option.  Second-semester BC seniors such as myself have taken to getting food from other Cleveland Circle institutions delivered to Mary Ann's (see the review for Fin's).  

    These five stars are a tribute to the fact that despite winning the award for the "worst bar in Boston," Mary Ann's still manages to pack the place night after night. No matter how objectively bad MA's may be, people will still wait in line for upwards of 40 minutes (albeit sustained by purchasing nips from Reservoir Wines and Spirits across the street) just to get a taste of BC's ultimate dive bar at it's best.

    ** Trivia Question:  what are the 4 items available for purchase in the ladies' room at Mary Ann's? (Hint: they all start with the same letter)

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  • 0

    As a BC alum, I'm giving Mary Ann's four stars (minus one for the extreme skeeze factor), mostly because of nostalgia.  Not only did I spend many a drunken night at MA's during college (embarassingly enough), but I still remember the first time I stepped foot in here -- on Marathon Monday 1996, when my aunt bribed the doorman to let me in to use the bathroom.  I was eleven.

    Nostalgia aside, beware MA's!  Unless you want to relive the night you turned 21, complete with sloppy drinks, a sticky floor, Photo Hunt wars, a crowd-pleasing sing-along to "Don't Stop Believin'", and a cab ride back to the dorm that you don't remember, there's not much reason to come here.  You'll be surrounded by wasted undergrads -- if there is a picture under the dictionary entry for "colleeeeege!", it must feature this lovely establishment.

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  • 0

    i go to bc and i cannot handle this place.  to go in, you have to write down your drivers license number, birthdate, and sign it.  pretty intense for a disgusting dirty overcrowded room filled with blacked out clique-y bc undergrads.  not a place to meet people, not a place to dance; i think they purposely make this place so boring that you have no other option than to binge drink.  also, the bathroom is horrendously small and disgusting (avoid at all costs) - have they EVER cleaned it?  

    no, just no.

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  • 0

    Seriously, JUST DON'T GO.  You think yu have to try it once (and well, maybe you do), but if you have any sense, you'll end up at Cityside across the street like we did after the first round.  We were served $4.50 beers that were warm, flat, and in plastic cups.  Wow.  Also, a very limited liquor selection.  They were even out of limes, so my wife's G&T was pretty lame.

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  • 0

    This place is 5 stars for BC students/alumni, 1 star for everyone else.  I'll be the first to admit that if you didn't go to BC, don't waste your time with MAs.  The only reason BC grads come back to is temporarily recapture a piece of their youth.  If you don't have any memories here, then there isn't anything for you.

    Once upon a time, the $1 drafts might have made Mary Ann's worth checking out, but those days ended about 7 years ago.  They don't even have the cheapest draft in Cleveland Circle anymore (Cityside across the road has $2 Bud Lights).

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  • 0

    Just don't. Stick to your guns, unlike me who was unwillingly dragged by roommates who wanted to check out that really sketchy bar for fun.

    I have never seen so many people drink Busch willingly. Ahh, to be in college again and drink crappy beer, no thanks.

    And the whole bar just shakes when people are playing that basketball game, scary.

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  • 0

    Whatever...I went to BC, I'm biased.

    That being said, barring some kind of ironic 'Let's go back to college!' pub crawl, I may never set foot in this place again. I consider it nothing less than a blessing from God that I never caught any communicable diseases from the plastic 'glasses' that they use to serve beer. I challenge anyone to find a worse men's room in the state of Massachusetts than the one at MA's. And I'm 99% sure that every item in the vending machine in the corner expired some time during the Ford administration.

    After having been busted for allowing underage drinking so many times, these days apparently they make you show 46 forms of ID, sign your name in blood, and promise to donate your first born child in order to gain entrance. No matter. I've passed by on a weeknight and still seen lines down the block.

    What do Mary Ann's, the Mods, and the smell from your freshman dorm room have in common? No matter how hard anyone tries, none of them are ever going away.

    (Oh, and for anyone I know who may be reading this, don't be surprised when I send you an email about that pub crawl...)

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  • 0

    Mary Ann's is a right of passage for the Boston College student. Being an Eagle, myself, it would be a mortal sin for me not to give this fine establishment a top rating. For all intents and purposes, it isn't a 5-star...I don't even think it constitutes itself a 5-star Dive bar, if such a thing existed...it's just MAs.

    Don't go here if you don't go to BC. I'm not trying to be exclusive, you just won't have a good time. It's impossible...everyone's from BC, the drunks, the bartenders, the bouncers... go to City Side (which I love, but just has less of a BC air about it).

    If you do go, I believe it was previously mentioned, don't order anything that doesn't come in a bottle. Don't ask questions.

    Actually, don't ask questions at all....

    Don't ask why your waiting in line in the frigid cold to get in
    Don't ask why you have to sign your name and your license number
    Don't ask why everyone throws their belongings to the left of the door
    Don't ask why there is debris floating in your draft (see above warning)
    Don't ask why you could be potentially pissing and shitting at the same time
    Don't ask why the guy you hooked up with 3 weeks ago is there macking...you should have known better.

    Mary Ann's doesn't ask questions, so neither should you.

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  • 0

    Why would you go here if you're not a BC student?  This place has two taps of Busch Light.  Enough said.  And yet, now that I think about it, I've never seen anyone get a Busch Light in a glass...it's pretty much always in a bottle.

    No one goes here for the bastard bouncers (tip for the underclassmen: give them a 20 to get your fakes back), the surprisingly long lines, or the sticky floors (according to local legend they allow a homeless guy to live in the basement in exchange for mopping the floors), it's really a BC thing.  So allow me to repeat, DO NOT GO HERE UNLESS YOU HAVE A CONNECTION TO BOSTON COLLEGE UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE THAT SKETCHY OLD GUY SITTING AT THE COUNTER GLARING AT THE YOUNG PEOPLE!

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  • 0

    I took a friend here for her 21st birthday because I was trying to think of the meanest possible thing I could do to her.  It was my first time, so I wasn't quite expecting to have to pull out my social security card in addition to ID, passport, student ID that expired years ago, and library card.  After signing in (they'll never be able to trace Michael Smith from Connecticut), we were surprised to find that there were only about ten people in the bar.  Seven of them were ritualistically throwing some balls into a hoop on the wall and slapping each other around every time one went in.  The other three probably worked there.  I pulled up a seat next to the gallon jug of ammonia decorating the bar and braced myself for the awful things I was about to do to my body.  Lucky for me (?), there was a problem with the taps and we could only have bottled beer -- except they were out of all of those, too, save for Busch Light.  I got a rum and coke, although I wasn't watching him make it (big mistake, I know, but I was trying to count the rings on the partially opened Snickers bar in the vending machine) so I think that ammonia was used in place of rum by mistake.  Or not by mistake.

    I wish I had read Brian's description of the men's room before braving it myself.  I was in there, taking care of business, admiring the Final Destination 2 sticker collection on every wall, when I noticed a strange sensation.  No, I hadn't caught anything in my five minutes there (that I'm aware of), I was feeling someone else's back rubbing against mine.  I don't know why they even bothered with installing toilets in there, if they want to fit as many people into a pee-closet as possible they should have just gone with the traditional bucket of ice.  Kumbaya my Lord, etc.

    If you're curious as to why they're so strict about the IDs, here's a link to a rather insightful Globe article about their string of liquor license violations:  <a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boston.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fmassachusetts%2Farticles%2F2006%2F02%2F12%2Flocal_bar_suffers_identity_crisis%2F&s=16ee093a82d5b71fef5b4abcd2f49aaf07d9626dede60f6c1cb492c937a55806" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.boston.com/ne…</a>

    "It feels like East Berlin in 1988, but even there they probably let you drink."  Yeah, I'd say that covers it.

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  • 0

    Funny.  I can't help but laugh every time I come here.  

    Covered windows.  Sketchy entrance.  You have to "sign in" to enter.  Name, signature, license number, & DOB.  Drink of choice?  Busch Light, no question as you'll notice quickly.  Stick to bottles only.  Don't ask why, just take my advice.  Cash only, no paper trail!  Average age? 20.  Yes, I said 20.  

    Tuesday nights seem to be the night to be there once BC is in session.  EVERYONE knows each other.  Yeah, and about the smell, just get drunk faster, it will go away.  Biggest selling point is the Hoop Fever game in the back.  My friends and I probably dropped $20 into that thing last night.  

    Most interesting feature?  Mens room, def.  They turned a 1 toilet sized bathroom into 3.  You can imagine the awkwardness of pissing back to back (literally backs touching, its so small) with a total stranger.   Watch out for the reach-around!

    It got 3 stars from me because I always leave laughing at the hilarity of the place.  At least I'm smiling. I guess.

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  • 0

    I am surprised Mary Ann's has gotten such a bum wrap from the other reviewers... Its not that I believe Mary Ann's is a great bar, its not. Nor does it pretend to be.

    Instead Mary Ann's is a bar that dodges the 'must serve food' guidelines by having a vending machine in the corner. The plus side is, they don't care what food you bring in off the street. OK, so on a packed night there is no way to not be touching someone else while using the urinals in the men's room. Which is class. But this all misses the real point of Mary Ann's: she gets you plowed for cheap.

    I admit, I haven't been to Mary Ann's very much lately, but regrettably I used to quasi live there for a few years with the exception of the 2 month period during my senior year when I was banned for trying to steal a drink condiment tray (don't ask why... I just wanted it), and it always served up a great time then.

    What I love about Mary Ann is that she doesn't ask questions such as: "When was the last time you bathed?" "What are your life aspirations? "Do you really think consuming 15 Busch lites on a Friday afternoon will help you will achieve them?" "Is that a whole deep fried chicken from across the street you are eating in here?" "Where are your pants?"  No. Mary Ann does not ask any of these questions...

    In return she asks that you don't ask questions such as: "What is that smell?"  "When was the last time the tap lines to the keg were cleaned?"  "Why is the bouncer such a dick?" and "Who threw up in the bathroom, but not in the toilet?"  You are not allowed to ask these questions. It is a symbiotic non-questioning zone... one of the last ones left.

    If you like Mary Ann's check out P.J. Kilroys (currently closed, but maybe will re-open hope, hope) and the Beacon Hill Pub. All three are owned by the same guy.

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  • 0

    Five stars for the BELOVED Mary Ann's.

    Why? Because the place is completely filthy and the beer is too. It asks nothing of you. Show up dressed to the nines after a night out in the city or roll out of bed in your PJs-- both are acceptable as long as you are there to drown yourself in Busch Light.

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    This place gets a star because they have Hoop Fever in the back.  You can play competitive basketball with up to 3 people all night long.  Crappy crappppy atmosphere, you need 85 forms of ID to get in..and apparently passports don't count for your Canadian friends...it's just dumpy.  I live with BC grads who have a special place in their heart for Mary Ann's, so the only thing that gets me to come along is the basketball.

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    Haha!  I love that this place gets a mention regarding the smell.  The place is the definition of dive bar.  As you approach you begin to wonder whether or not you should enter -- the bad vibes of this place stretch across the street.  Ominous...  Is it even open?  As you step inside, your eyes adjust to the dim lighting and *sniff sniff* did something die in here?  Yes, Virginia, something did die in here -- now turn around and walk away quickly before it gets you too.  Don't look back!

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    I would give 0 stars if i could.  The stench in this windowless, wooden-paneled pit could kill a small child.  Didn't actually stay long enough to buy a cheap drink served in a plastic cup.  I couldn't handle the smell.  Is it mold?

    This place is beyond being a dive.  There is no divey charm in here whatsoever....

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