Steff D.
Yelp
Looking for a great place for chippies and sippies (eg: french fries and cocktails that you enjoy midafternoon as a little treat/pick-me-up)? Can't recommend the Bostonia Public House more! We visited on a Friday around 3ish, and - while it was busier than we were expecting already! - we were able to sit at the bar.
Very rarely do I say this, but those stools were SO COMFORTABLE. They were wider and deeper than the usual bar seating, I so appreciated the hooks discreetly hidden below for my stuff, and the overall decor of dark wood just felt so old New England pub to me (the enormous windows allow a ton of natural light in though, so it never feels oppressive [if that makes sense]).
The staff? So attentive and so refreshingly normal (not at all artificially friendly; when our first bartender's shift was up, she asked if we would be cool closing our tab early [we get it, you want that tip!] we did, and our next round of drinks from her seemed... much more generous, let's say).
DRINKS: I had the Fountain of Youth (vodka, elderflower liqueur, lime, lemon, mint, agave) which was a balanced, thirst quenching drink for a warm day, my partner had the Bostonia Barrel (an old fashioned; it was okay) and also a pour of Talisker 10.
FOOD: We only saw duckfat sweet potato waffle fries or rosemary parmesan shoestring fries available on the menu. We told our bartender we were vegan, and could they just do normal fries... with the chipotle ketchup we saw came with the waffle fries? She was like, "Absolutely!" And, very soon after that, a delicious bowl of salt and pepper fries arrived with our sauce. Golden on the outside, mashed potato-y on the inside, they were everything you want in a good fry. And that ketchup? A little sweet and a little smoky heat; and, now, I can never boring ketchup again.
We were allowed to linger for as long as we wanted, the new bartender constantly filling up our waters and giving us space to finish our second round drinks. Later on in the day when we couldn't settle on another place to have drinks, we were tempted to just come back here. And honestly? We should have!