I went here with friends to pregame First Fridays at the MFA (don't judge us) and was very excited with what I found in this dark little bar. I've been driving by this place for years and have always wanted to stop in, this was finally my chance. We were greeted by twenty five minutes of VERY loud Led Zeppelin and other classic rock that some very good people happened to put in the jukebox that went well with our collection of $8 pitchers of bud light.
If you are considering stopping in at a high quality dive bar then this is a fantastic place to spend your time. It is right off of the T at the MFA stop so it can easily be reached from the E line. Just remember CASH ONLY!
Punters is one of my favorite bars near Northeastern. Â Let me provide you with a list of reasons why.
1.) You don't have to get dressed up. Â Which means I can wear sweat pants.
2.) Its NEVER too crowded
3.) Mixed drinks are strong and cheap
4.) $8 Pitchers of Bud Light and a non judgmental bar tender when you tell him you only need one cup.
5.) The have a jukebox so if someone's shitty music tastes are pissing you off you can change it
6.) They have pool and darts although I'm usually too drunk to play
7.) The window to UHOP. Â Drunk? Â Hungry? Don't want to leave the bar? Â Have no fear just waltz into the room with the pool table and order food from the UHOP man. Â Mac and Cheese wedges. Â Enough said.
A list of the VERY few reasons why I dislike punters
1.) Cash only. Â
2.) The door is the shadiest looking thing. Â No window in it. Â Just a slab of wood. Â Not so inviting.
3.) I can't speak for the men's room but the woman's room looks like a homicide crime scene.
All in all Punters is a chill place to get your drink on. Â Last night me and three friends went for drink. Â It was pretty dead and we brought a deck of cards so we grabbed a table and played a bunch of drinking games. Â It was a lot of fun. Â It's a good low key place to get hammered.
I came here nearly every night when I went to Boston for a training conference over the summer. The pub is right next to North Eastern University and is text book definition of a dive bar. I LOVED the games in the back of the bar (pool, darts, video games, and a awesome punching game I couldn't get enough of!). The drinks were cheap and that is enough for me! I can imagine if I were a student at NEU I would enjoy this place.
Review Source:This is not a swanky, up scale pub. I don't think there are Flirtini's on the menu-- I'm not sure there's even a menu.
Punter's is a classic college dive pub and it hasn't changed in nearly 15 years. I used to live in Burstein Hall next door while I attended Northeastern and would pop over for a beer occasionally and pizza from UHOP. All through college this place was known as one of the few bars that would let you in with "a note from your mother."
While this wasn't too long ago, things have likely changed and they're stricter with IDs.
Definitely old and dirty. When I go back for reunion bar crawls, we lovingly use the decrepit lavatories... hahaha. :)
The best parts of the bar: pizza thru a window, NU photos everywhere, good jukebox, cheep pitchers of bud light and darts (no matter how crappy).
A great place for last call if you live in the NU neighborhood.
I was told that this was a great place to go after work and that a lot of my coworkers often stopped in there. It's true, they did, but I have no idea why. First, there was no music, unless you bought music through the jukebox, which was touchy (for looking so new). They had plenty of seating, but it was tight for getting in and out of the booth style seating. They offered food in the hole in the wall, but service was slow.
Which leaves me with the last part... the bar... I ordered a mix drink for $5 and it was served in the world's smallest glass. I felt like I took a shooter of rum and coke - a baby couldn't even get a buzz off that thing. I mean if you are going to serve a small drink, at least make it strong!
The only thing you could really order for a decent price was a pitcher of their limited selection of beers. OH and cash only? What is this - nostalgia of a time before ATM's and credit card machines? No thanks.
Definition dive.
..Cash only!
Pizza in the hole is terrific.
The prices are cheap.
The bathrooms are hilariously run down, but not quite as dirty as some other area bars.. OHE?
It's great to go if you want to have a beer and converse with friends. It's the kind of bar where you walk out and think to yourself "I had the best night"... Â Because you now know 33 new facts about your friends, theit deepest life stories, dreams, and goals, you still have money in your pocket, and you are drunk.
But this giant internet jukebox with all its bright colors and flashing lights.. gotta go.
This is a pretty fun dive bar, and the "pizza in the hole" is ingenious. Â I'm going to steal that idea when I open up my own dive someday. Â And I appreciate how big and cavernous the place is, like something out of Kiss the Girls. Â In a good way.
But unless you go to Northeastern, work at the MFA, or get on the E-line by accident, I'm not sure the need to come here. Â And I just can't forgive them for having the single worst darts that I have ever picked up in my entire life. Â We would have been better off making paper airplanes and throwing them at the board.
Hobbity. I mean, it's actually pretty huge, but that just means it can fit tons of hobbits inside. I think it's all the wooden furniture that does it, but seriously it's just mad hobbity.
It's cheap I guess, so there's that. And you can order pizza through a "hole" which is actually just a window. Nothing worse than finding a window when you are looking for a hole, am i right fellas? I don't even know what that was supposed to mean, I'm just saying the hole is a window and the pizza is not very good.
They have an awesome Buckhunter machine and less-than-awesome darts.
Annnnnd it's basically in the middle of nowhere in relation to my normal migration pattern, so I doubt I will become a regular anytime soon. For what it is, a dive(ish? ey?) bar, it is perfectly fine and unremarkable.
Having only come here on a few not-so-memorable occasions, I never realized how SKEEVY this place is until my most recent sober-ish visit. It kinda reminds me of that mold-infested chalet we rented up in Jay Peak ten winters ago that made my entire family fall deathly ill. The floor is disgusting, there are strange growths coating the walls and ceilings, and the bathrooms are ABOMINABLE. Check out the picture I posted.
There are pool tables and a dart board, which is cool. However, the pool table is covered in God knows what, and the dart board is shoved in the (arguably) moldiest, most destroyed corner of the joint. Come to think of it, I probably should've thought twice before touching those darts. I hope I'm up on my Hepatitis shots =
The only reason I'm awarding Punter's an additional star is because it served as the perfect "no frills" location for my crew from 11:53pm to 12:17am on New Years Eve two years ago. We wanted to venture out of the apartment, but nobody wanted to pay a $40 cover charge to get into a bar we don't like. So we figured we'd go to a bar we don't like that was guaranteed to be free. Free it was, and wasted we got.
If you're looking to risk your health to fulfill your hick dreams by playing Buck Hunter and pissing in an indoor outhouse, then Punter's Pub is just the place for you. Just remember to bring cash, since they don't accept plastic, despite it being the 21st century.
Favoring the booze over the beers and the broken-in over the brand-spankin'-new, I've had opportunity to sample a lot of well vodkas at all lot of dives. Therefore, I can say with confidence that the swill called Simmons that they're serving up at Punter's is among the cheapest and most foul I've swigged.
Laura: I'll take a vodka soda.
Bartender: Sure; you want a double?
Laura: No thanks.
::B hands L a pint glass o' booze::
Bartender: That'll be $8
I guess that $8 pint of booze must have been a double, because it was rubbing alcohol strong. I did my profession proud, nursing that baby...
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As others have mentioned, there are no windows, minimal lighting, a lot of big booths, darts, billiards and pizza available from the neighbors via a hole in the wall. I didn't try the pizza and I doubt I'll ever get the chance -- thanks to the remote location of this bar in relation to the rest of my life.
If I was local, I might come here with friends. Since I'm not, I probably won't.
So as I was approaching Punter's, I nearly walked right past it on the sidewalk. It was only when I realized I was about to enter the restaurant next door that I backtracked and found the unmarked, warehousey door that leads one into Punter's. Perfect door for this bar. Sets the tone for what's going on inside.
Although, I'm not really sure what *was* going on inside. It seemed like once upon a time this location was a historic display of an old west town or something? There are strange labels above different doorways. Such as "barbershop" above the dartboard area, and something like "Washington's Platform" by the restrooms. I don't really get it? But I don't really care, in a location like this such things are of little importance. What is important? The three stooges oil painting hung behind the bar. The "Thank you for Drinking" sign on the wall. The fact that they have Big Buck Hunter as a video game. Not that I played it, but it just seems like this is the sort of place that should have Big Buck Hunter.
The beers? Cheap. The ambiance? Divey. The darts for the dartboard? Plastic and totally crappy, but also somehow totally appropriate for this place. The fact that there is a window you can walk up to and order greasy food from the place next door? Perfect.
Would I come to Punter's again? Yeah, sure, why not? It was a decent enough space, great for avoiding natural light when you're in that kind of mood, good for being completely non-pretentious with a group of friends. (Or strangers, as it may be.)
As dive bars go, well - it's got what you need. Â $3.00 Gansett tallboys, seriously off-brand well booze (Simmons?) Buck Hunter, a dartboard, a pool table, the boxing game where you actually mash the bag. Â
"pizza in a hole" is a great dive bar concept - they cut a  hole into the wall into UHOP so you can get greezy slices.  Good for soaking up all those three dollar tallboys. Â
Dark, old and gloomy, and no windows. Â This is a dive.
The only incongruous thing is the ENORMOUS (we're talking like five feet tall) internet jukebox mounted on one wall. Â
Oh PS, if you want to play darts, bring your own. Â The house "darts" came from a cereal box.
Cash only, punters.
This place is a hole. But at least its a hole with cheap beer so not all is lost. There is nothing appealing about this bar- not the building, not the decoration, not the furniture, not the crowd, not the service.
Its usually pretty empty and its never a "fun" time. This bar is the equivalent of an alcohol vending machine.
Oh and its cash only btw
Most people who write positive things about this bar are nostalgic. Punters has a limited selection of beer, less than a handful of beers on tap, and the bartenders aren't very friendly. Let me just say that I need the bartender to make a good drink to have a good time, I don't need him or her to be friendly, but when the bartenders are always jerks it adds up.
The guy who owns the place is consistently mean to patrons. He's not mean to the small "clique" of people that he really likes but other than that, he's not someone you want to talk to.
The place is old and run down, but its not even a cool old run down place...its just run down. There's nothing special about it here. The seats are placed too far apart  so you can't sitback into your booth without being 4 feet from the table. Also the back of your booth shares its flexible back with the guy sitting behind you. When he moves, you move.
The "food here" is from a respective pizza place next door that you can be a patron of without even entering Punters.
Skip Punters and go right next door for the pizza cause Punter's aint worth it.
I am an NU Alum. Â This was one of my joints. Â It is a college dive bar. Â I remember the Hole in the wall you could get great pizza (the pizza is not so great as I get older)
Still love the place. Â The owner LIVES there. Â If you are looking have a night to relive your college days, this fits the bill.
Ahhh, Punters. Â Makes me miss my Northeastern days. Â While Conor's was my bar of choice, it closes at 1, at which point I'd much rather stumble over to Punters than Our House East. Â
Punters is dark and dingy, making it the perfect dive. Â Plus, it's got the perfect built-in "ditch your date" mechanism in that there's a door near the bathrooms, which is out of the line of vision of 90% of the bar - I remember countless conversations between my friends and I - "if he's lame, take him to Punters. Â Pretend you're going to the bathroom, escape out the back door, and come meet us at Conors!" Â
I wish my maturity was developed enough to say that I wouldn't want to be there right now shooting rubber bands at unsuspecting UHOP customers through the order window, but I can't lie...
Do you like overly laquered wood and cheap pitchers? Â GREAT! Â Because I'm pretty sure that's all they have in stock at Punters. Â
Regardless, its a fun college Dive bar if I've ever seen one. Â Isn't it funny what college bars can pull off and stay in business? Â Despite its.... quaint ambiance though, I have to give them credit for having a pool table, regardless of what condition its in.
Oh and don't use the ATM there. Â 4 times I've been there its been down twice. Â Just beg for change outside. Â You won't need much!
Oh, Punters. Â This is a college bar, and a hole in the wall. Â It looks very dingy, but it has a certain charm.
There's a literal hole in the wall, so that you can get pizza or other greasy late-night food from the place next door. Â Pool, darts, pitchers AND table taps of cheap beer! Â Absurdly expensive juke-box that always seems to be playing country music. Â What better place to end the night?
I used to refuse to go to Punters, simply on looks alone. Â Yes, you're right, it's a dingy dirty-looking bar that doesn't take credit cards. Â
But over time it's grown on me quite a bit. Â It's so close to where I live which is perfect when it's too cold to make your way anywhere else in the city, or the number of people hanging out in your room has outstripped the number of chairs you have. Â The beer is really cheap as you would expect, and they have table taps!! Which is awesome. Â The bartenders are friendly, there's a window looking right into UHOP next door where you can order food. Â There's a bunch of arcade games you can play.
This is really just a good place to chill and have fun with friends (assuming you live in walking distance). Â I now associate Punter's with that weird basement pool hall place they went to in Boy Meets World. Â Chubbie's was the name.
Re-reading my old review... I don't know what I was thinking. Nobody loves Punter's. There's no reason to. Grimy bar all-around, shitty beer, played-out arcade games (btw, they got rid of Buck Hunter), a crappy jukebox, and a sketchy window into a gross, greasy pizza place. They don't take cards, the booths are all falling apart, and the bathrooms never have soap.
That said, this is the quintessential dive bar. If you're at Northeastern and need a place to drink and don't have anyone to impress, Punter's is the place to go.
Before I start I have to admit that I started going to this place because I lived a stone's throw away. Â I have to give this place 5 stars because of the memories Ive had and the "character" this place has.
Talk about unpretentious, this bar is the definition of that. Â Steve, the owner always greets people with a handshake and the bar tenders are down to earth always willing to make small talk. Â No, this isn't the place to go out and creep on girls, but who really wants to come off like that anyway? Â This is THE place to come with a group of friends to have a good time; 7$ pitchers, a jukebox, dartboard, selection of games and music that isn't so loud that you have to yell your conversations. Â If you want to go sleeze it up and creep around a bar talking to as many girls as possible go to our house. Â If you actually have friends and just want to have a good time come here.
I love this dive bar.
Cash only!
Can't tell if its dark or dirty.
Bartenders and owner are always nice.
Not an amazing beer selection, but who cares. Â I don't go to dive bars for Hoegaarden or Hacker Pschorr. Â
If you need some food to soak up the beer there is a small hole in the wall where you stick your head in and order from the pizza shop next door. Â
Charlie will always give you a ride home. Â Stumble out the door to your left and your at the Museum of Fine Arts stop, and if you stumble to your right you will end up at the Northeastern stop...
Oh Punters...
For five long years I frequented this establishment. It was right outside the front door of my apartment building and it was the easiest place to get your drink on during a blizzard.
Basically you walk into a dark, stinky, wooden cave...and I'm pretty sure that the last time they cleaned the keg lines was circa the 70's. Great place to end the night if you like that kind of atmosphere. They've got the jukebox, the sports games are on, there are a couple video games and a dart board in the back...
I've heard rumors of a glory hole as well though I'm not actually dumb enough to search it out...*shudder*
This is my most favorite dive bar in all of Boston! As a student at Northeastern University, Punter's was extremely convenient on bitterly cold winter nights when you wanted to drink without having to trek to Boylston. Â You'd get your pals together, grab a pitcher of beer, and settle in for a cozy night of darts or big buck hunter (they also have a billiards room). Â So many memories... Anyway, the decor is predictably lacking (I always felt as though I were walking into the 1970's). Â There is dark wood paneling, not many windows, poor lighting, and chairs/booths in various states of disrepair...but that's okay because that is not why you go here. Â One of their best features is the hole in the wall that connects you with UHOP (always a bad idea), the pizza place next door, through which you can order vast quantities of drunk food. Â Fantastic!
Since moving to Charlestown, I haven't been back and it is unlikely that I ever will, but Punter's will always have a special place in my heart.
News Flash: Pour House is not a dive bar. PUNTER'S is a dive bar.
First time I went here, I was with three friends. We grabbed a booth by the windows and when we tried to pull the bench closer to the table, it came apart in our hands. So we moved to another booth that was held together (sort of) by duct tape.
All this while we chugged down the VAT of beer known as Big Bertha (four pitchers with its own spigot for $26).
Next time I went was a Saturday night. There was no one there except my six friends and me. We got a Big Bertha, two pitchers, and a deck of cards from the bartender and played drinking games for hours in the dimly lit, silly-juked establishment.
The bathrooms, yes, they're nasty and practically too small to even use but... this place just wouldn't be right with clean or reasonbly-sized facilities.
I don't know... The place is crap, but it's awesome, and it somehow reminds me not to take myself so seriously when I'm out getting drunk on the weekends. No frills; you just gotta grab some friends and some cheap beer, maybe a deck of cards, and be reminded that's it's not where you are, but who you're with that counts.
Where else can u find a touch screen jukebox and $14 Sam Summer pitchers? No where. This Northeastern and Wentworth establishment has a pretty much mandatory attendance for graduation. Â This is definatly a man's bar, but a tispy Miss has been seen stumbling in, as the last E Train drops her off at the near by MFA stop. You got to go at least once if you want to claim to went to school in Boston
p.s. Don't miss the Glory Hole....
I grew up with this idea for what a bar should be. On my 21st birthday, I entered Punters. And it was exactly what my imaginary bar looked like.
Beer signs, the musty odor of spilled beer, a jukebox which isn't so loud as to drown out conversation, and an old guy washing glasses behind the bar. Perfect.
Punters was once the crown jewel of Northeastern pubs, but has since fallen to the bottom of most lists. And it's easy to see why...it's dark, grimy, and the only way to get food is to yell through a little window into UHOP. But at the same time, cheap beer, enormous shots, darts, Buck Hunter, tables, and a group of bartenders who don't piss you off? You can't get better than that.
Because the bar is now anti-trendy, you don't find the same idiots you do at more well recognized establishments. This is a double edged sword. On one hand, you can have meaningful conversation with your friends. On the other, there's nobody to make fun of, so you might actually have to have meaningful conversation.
A wretched hive of scum and villainy, this is my type of place.
It is an unobtrusive bar on the corner of huntington and parker.
Punters has cheap beer and minimal lighting. Â It also has darts, pool, house of the dead, and of course Big Buck Hunter. Â The best feature that Punters offers is a window into UHOP next door. Â While their food isn't anything great, getting it in an inebriated state through an interbuilding window makes it so.
Busier on fridays and saturdays but you can still find a table if you want to sit with your friends. Â Wouldn't change a thing.
I went here last weekend for a friend's birthday. Not my thing. Too frat boy for me. In fact, a drunk frat boy danced over to bother me and another girl I was talking to.
When I got there, I ordered a Jack and Coke, which was $5. I thought, "Wow, that's so cheap!" It was served to me in a short glass the approximate diameter of one of those super-skinny Mardi Gras shooter cups. 90% of the drink wound up as ice. It tasted watered down. It also, inexplicably, managed to be incredibly bitter. I was so annoyed with the shitty quality of my drink that I didn't even bother trying to get a beer and played Big Buck Hunter instead.
The jukebox here was disappointing, too; it looked like it had a lot of different albums from different artists, but they only really had one to two songs from each album on there. Bit of a cock tease.
I appreciate dive bars, but this really wasn't one. It was just sort of a sub-par college bar. If you want a proper dive, go to Sligo in Davis.
All cities could use a few more solid establishments like Punter's Pub.
THE GOOD:
- The digital jukebox is top notch. Pop in a ten spot and know your night is off to a good start. If you're lucky, grab the table directly across from the jukebox - This allows for music suggestions and critiquing.
- The pizza hole: there is literally a hole in the wall to the pizza place next store. Â From this magical hole comes hot tasty pizza and sandwiches.
- Darts - hey, they're fun!
- Steve: he owns Punter's and is a great guy.
- Pool table
- The bartenders - no-nonsense and quick with the beverages.
- The $6 pitchers
- Good door guys/bouncers: they keep the riffraff out
THE BAD:
- Cash only
- It's a Northeastern Rugby bar - take that for what you will.
- Underage kiddies that sometimes don't know how to handle their booze.
THE UGLY:
- On at least three occasions there have been random articles of clothing in the women's restroom: mostly thongs... This always struck me as odd. Â The bathrooms are super tiny and sort of falling apart. Â Not the type of place that would make me think to myself, "hmm, maybe I should take my undies off."
This place is a great dive because it has the 5 basic amenities that every dive should have in order of importance:
1. A 1'x1' hole in the wall that you can order buffalo wings from.
2. $6 pitchers
3. pool table
4. juke box
5. Big Buck Hunter
If you are lucky there may even be a girl there maybe.
4 stars, not for the amazing cleanliness, or fantastic food, quality drinks, or bright lighting.
More because Punters was/is home, for all Northeastern Law students. That day you found out all that research for your social justice project was useless because your LF failed to get instructions from the client? You headed straight to Punters.
Oh Punters. I know there are other bars in Boston, cleaner, with better food & lighting, but you will always be home for me.
I admit I've always been skeeved out by the looks of this place. Â Something about a lack of windows screams EVIL DUNGEON to me. Â So, I was surprised after a pleasant & cultured visit at the MFA, when my friend suggested we head over there for a beer. Â I sheepishly asked if he'd ever been before and to my amazement he had - more than once. Â The real determining factor though was the fact the next closest bar was about 3 blocks away. Â
Although it's most definitely a dive bar, it's not of the chain smoking, scowling old man variety. Â When we walked in, two girls were sitting at the bar and as we sidled up, the bartender immediately (and cheerfully) came over to take our orders. Â To give you an idea of the beer selection though, two of the five taps poured Bud Light and when we asked about the bottle selection, I swear the first five he listed were all types of Bud (Bud w lime?? wtf?). Â I settled on one of the more exotic beers (Harpoon) and my friend got a vodka tonic. Â Dive=cheap and they didn't disappoint.
They get major bonus points for Big Buck Hunter and they have pretty  much everything else, too: pool table, darts, those electronic games that sit on the bar, Golden Tee...and the place is surprisingly big, although it did start becoming a college sausage fest towards the end.
As we were leaving, the friendly bartender yelled after us, "Bye! Â Come back again!" Â and I think I actually will.
One of the worst bars in Boston.
Beer selection blows. Â Prices are kinda expensive for what you get unless you like cold piss in a glass. Â The crowd is annoying. Â The jukebox and people's selection make me want to stab myself in the ears. Â It looks like a fire hazard (hint hint, for you pyros out there.)
"I'm going to the bar to socialize with people other than those I came with."
Is it me, or is this the Unspoken Fallacy of the 20-Something Bargoer?
More often than not it seems like the exception and not the rule. When you're at the bar, you hang with the people you came with. If you're a single guy, maybe you try to talk to girls. If you're a single girl, maybe you listen.
Anyway, for those that think we all need to stop kidding ourselves, or just enjoy a place where small groups of people can run their own show without all the shenanigans of the nightclub-bar, this is your wheelhouse.
I don't need to stand uncomfortably and pay $6 for a beer while struggling to hear my friends talk over Fall Out Boy.
What I want is basically a giant bar in my living room that I don't have to clean up or restock. A place where I can sit down with however many people I came with and shoot the shit for as little expense as possible. I go home and somebody else can clean it up.
I miss you, Punter's.
Things you can do at Punters:
~Get a pitcher of beer.
~Order "Big Bertha" (contains at least 3 or 4 pitchers of beer. Min 4 people to order)
~Drink
~Put some money in the jukebox and play some of your favorite music
~Play some music to piss off/mock other patrons
~Be that group dancing on a Thurs/Fri/Sat night
~Drink beer
~Opt for "Play Now" on the jukebox to bypass other patrons song selections
~Play "asshole" and other card games. (Quarters reserved for a very select few groups of regulars)
~Drink lots of beer
~Guess the number of layers of epoxy coating the tables and bar.
~Order from the greasy window
~Play pool
~Make friends with Steve, the bartenders and door staff
~Drink even more beer
***Have an effing amazing time with your friends***
Ah Punters. Â I've been drunk here many-a-time after law school finals or just after a particularly bad contracts class. Â Punters is fabulous because it's so awful. Â It's dark. Â It's grimy. Â You can order food from a hole in the hall (literally, not joking) next door where you can dine on some of the worst bar food ever. Â But, the drinks are cheap and the clientele is usually okay (harmless law students from Northeastern- suprisingly the undergrads steer clear of this joint).
They have a jukebox that, if I remember correctly, is pretty decent. Â But, I wouldn't count on it, I was really drunk and dancing to a heck of a lot of Journey that night. Â I think if a jukebox has Journey on it, then it must be good.
No matter where you go in life you cannot ignore your home. Â And if you went to Northeastern Law at some point during your three-years (four for some of us) you called Punter's Pub home. Â And why not? Â It's close, its comfy and Steve (the owner) will treat you like family. Â Have an evening class and only a few minutes before the first pitch -- no worries, Punter's is always there for you. Â Now i know it's not the flashiest place in Boston and one of my friends asked me on the way to school - "are they ever going to change the replacement door?" Â But it is home - and you have to "protect your house" in the famous words of Big Papi. Â
Insiders note: go to the back  - you will see a hole in the wall.  That is where you buy your pizza from.  Honestly.
Every first year student at Northeastern University's law school recieves a welcome packet in the mail during the Summer in which they are told matter-of-factly to expect to spend a significant amount of time over the next three years in this hole-in-the-wall dive bar with its own unique brand of "sickening charm." (the welcome packet's words, not mine)
Punter's is great not just for law students however, but for anyone who is in the area and starts to feel a little thirsty (it is also accross the street from Boston's museum of fine arts). Â Punters is about as unpretentious as you can possibly get, with its dimly lit basement atmosphere (even though it's actually at ground level), its rickety wooden booths and old-school arcade games shoved in the corner. Â
Also, if you get hungry, you can literally order through the hole in the wall that is shared between the bar and the University House of Pizza. Â
My only complaint is the limited beer selection, but really, there are more important things to worry about in life than not being able to order a micro-brew.
I do have to give the bartenders props for tolerating all the law students, who often descend upon the unsuspecting bar by the dozens without any warning (usually right after an exam or paper is due).
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