Model Café

The Model Cafe is a place you go to if you are already shit-hammered beyond belief. Preferably around 12:30 or 1am. It is by no means the best bar in Boston and if you think that way you probably haven't been to many bars. Saying The Model Cafe is best bar in Boston is like saying Limp Bizkit saved heavy metal.

Here's the real deal:

Eclectic mix of crowds comes here. You wont find frat-boys and dude-bros or any uptight 'pretty broads' who spend entirely too much time making sure they look good. This is good on a comfort level as the crowd is not all too pretentious but you're still dealing with hipsters and art-school dropout snobs.

With that said, the crowd is band-guys who are in their mid 30s and still haven't made it, punk-chicks (many of them are stupidly skinny and have boy-ish bodies with no feminine curves.) and lots of shady characters.

The bathrooms at this place are quite possibly the worst in the world. The fact that some people have sex in them is stupifying to accept no matter how messed up you are.

Bring cash as this place operates like its the early 70s and simply remember one thing. If you end up at The Model Cafe at middle of the night it is only because you have completely stopped caring about your life. :-)

Do not come here sober. That's the main rule along with bringing cash.

Fun place, cash only, lots of punks, and very interesting conversations if you're the type who enjoys standing outside and smoking.

The Model Cafe is the best bar in Boston.

Seriously.  

There are a thousand and one horrible sports bars with a TV plastered to every single flat surface in the greater Boston area.  If you want those wretched places, don't come to the Model Cafe.  You can go watch TV in some other bar.  If you want a fancy upscale bar where the drinks are $12 a pop and lawyers are chasing trophy wives, don't come to Model Cafe.  If you want an awesome bar where bartenders will chat with you, where the patrons are colorful, and you can't possibly look weird or out of place if you try, the Model Cafe is your bar.  People will strike up conversation like it is the west coast.  You get a crazy mix of people and the music is generally good (assuming that you are sick of the top 40 in all the other other bars).

If you want a nice franchise bar, the Model Cafe is not your place.  If hate your fellow humans and like to go to bars to watch 20 HD TVs on every single freaking flat surface, the Model Cafe is not for you.  If you want colorful and crazy locals, talkative bartenders, and atmosphere that doesn't scream franchise chain or sports bar, the Model Cafe is the best bar in all of Boston, hands down.

People who find the Model Cafe scary or weird have nothing but my utmost pity.  They need to go flee back to the 'burbs or their frat house.