J.J. Foley's Cafe

South End, Boston · Bar · $

J.J. Foley's has been in the same South End spot since 1909, run by the same family for five generations - which in Boston qualifies as civic infrastructure. It's not a theme bar. It's a neighborhood pub that happens to have exceptional Guinness, honest fish and chips, and a dart board in back. The kind of place you take someone who asks to see the real Boston, not the brochure version.