Sullivan's Pub

On our most recent visit to the Boston area, we stopped in to Sullivan's after dinner down the road.  We were the only people in the place, but that's ok because it was still kind of early on a Wednesday and it was a little rainy out.  My husband ordered a beer on tap and I ordered a Cape Cod because I like girly drinks.  The keg had just been hooked up or something (so said the bartender) but it tasted and smelled terrible.  I could taste neither vodka nor cranberry juice in my Cape Cod.  It just tasted like a liquid.

However, I still give the place 3 stars because the ambiance was cool, it seems like locals dig it based on reviews, the bartender was nice and chatty, and it could have been an off evening.

Stumbled across this place on a Tuesday night. It was really dead inside but we decided to go in anyway. Right off the bat we got greeted by the very friendly bartender who was an older gentleman. I ordered a vodka soda and my boyfriend got a jack and coke. Both were very strong, $15 all together which isn't bad for the area. The place is definitely a divey pub but it's clean inside. The whole time we were there the bartender was chatting with us. Super friendly and great atmosphere if you just wanna chill and have a few. Only downfall was the parking. It's in a neighborhood so it's pretty hard to find a spot even on a Tuesday night.

This was probably the worst stop on a pub crawl I did last weekend and the bartender was probably the rudest I've ever encountered... ever.  He told my friend he wasn't allowed to sit in a seat even though there was no one sitting there... we checked with the people next to that seat.  I guess maybe he didn't want us taking up the space in front of the game machine thingy (and it was a stupid game machine thingy anyway.. no naked "what's different" searches!), but we were just leaning in to order drinks, not meaning to sit.  And that's how he greeted us, no "Hi" just "you can't sit there."  My friend had to sheepishly ask "...so can I order a drink?..."

Then the bartender couldn't get one of the taps to work.  It just kept pouring foam,  which I understand is probably not his fault, but instead of checking if my friend wanted a different beer instead, he ignored him for 15 minutes while fiddling with it.  

We headed to the jukebox and fed it a few dollars but the music stopped about 10 mins later even though it never played our songs.  Our other friends were able to feed more money after that and their songs played right away.  We went to the bartender to ask for money back (I mean, come on, 5 bucks if 5 bucks...) but he told us "oh well, you have to try again"

Basically, there are enough better bars in the area that I really don't think you should bother with this one.  Only positive is that it's spacious.  Although that was partly cause it was dead except for our crawl.