"After 50 years in Central Square, the Plough and Stars is still a good bar. Here’s why: The hallmark of any good bar is that — upon entering — it’s immediately apparent that it is a place where people have done some drinking. Not a place where people have gone to look pretty while sipping on $20 cocktails; not a place where people have gone to be photographed for the newest, hippest lifestyle blog. No, a good bar is where we go to have a few too many while commiserating about the state of things (good, bad, or otherwise); it’s where we go to shrug off the maelstrom of a lousy workweek; it’s where we go to be around the people we actually want to be around. The Plough and Stars in Central Square is all of that. Oh, and nights there just so happen to be soundtracked by live music." - Terrence Doyle