Red Hat Cafe
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: (617) 523-2175
- Cross Street:
- Cambridge Street
- Hours:
- Daily 10:30am-2am
Message from Red Hat Cafe
Welcome back a classic
- new menu
- 10 cent wings mon & tues
- oldest neighborhood bar
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Editorial Review for Red Hat Cafe – by Citysearch Staff
In Short
Cheap bar snacks, cheap pitchers of beer and plenty of TVs combine to yield a solid dive bar experience at the Red Hat. Wildly mixed crowds tend to include a combination of the following: college students, construction workers and State House employees. Only a 10-minute walk to the TD Banknorth Garden, this is one of the cheaper spots for pre-game drinks.
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Insider Tips
When to GoWednesdays (9pm-11pm) are trivia nights.
Save MoneyOn Monday and Tuesday enjoy 10 cent wings.
User Reviews for Red Hat Cafe
11/06/2008 Posted by jspiker1974
This place used to be a go-to, comfortable dive for me. A couple years ago it was purchased by a corporation and it just gets worse every day. You can still get reasonably cheap beer and the physical improvements have been good without affecting the basice atmosphere. But that's about all there is to recommend this place anymore. The staff has become disinterested. The music has become very loud. And, worst of all, the food--which used to be excellent bar food for the price--has become downright lousy. The menu has been pared way back. The food quality, even moreso. But the prices have gone up. The Hat used to have some of the best Buffalo wings around. I now regard them as some of the worst. Bit by bit, the sauce has got thinner and thinner with less and less flavor. The sauce is now so thin, in fact, that you cannot get any on your wings; it will run off that easily. Ten-cent wings (Monday and Tuesday nights) that you don't want to eat aren't a bargain, even if they are just 10 cents. On top of that, they have begun charging for extra Buffalo sauce (which will run right off the wings anyway so why bother right?). I have stopped going to the Hat altogether now.
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04/22/2007 Posted by schevaiswood
it's a bit of a walk but this is where i like to go pre-game for garden events. they have cheap beers and free popcorn.
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