Entertainment Districts in Boston

Back Bay presents Newbury Street's upscale boutiques and restaurants alongside Copley Square, one of Boston's most architecturally elegant neighborhoods.

Beacon Hill presents gas-lit cobblestone streets with wine bars and restaurants in one of Boston's most historic and picturesque neighborhoods near the State House.

Boston Common, the oldest public park in the United States, and the adjacent Public Garden present swan boats, street performers, and seasonal events at the heart of downtown Boston.

Boston's North End is America's oldest continuously inhabited neighborhood and the most authentic Italian-American community in New England — a compact peninsula where Hanover Street's extraordinary Italian restaurants, pastry shops, and bars create the most culturally specific entertainment district in Boston. Paul Revere's house, the Old North Church (two if by sea), and the modern-day tradition of Saturday night pastry lines at Mike's and Modern Pastry create an entertainment district where American history and Italian culinary culture intersect in ways found nowhere else in the United States.

Boston's Seaport District is the most remarkable urban development in 21st-century Boston — a former industrial waterfront transformed into the city's most modern entertainment, restaurant, and innovation hub with billions in new development creating Boston's newest and most dynamically expanding entertainment destination. The concentration of nationally recognized restaurants (Legal Sea Foods' flagship, Trillium Brewing, Row 34), the Boston Convention Center, and the extraordinary waterfront views of the harbor create an entertainment district of rapidly growing cultural importance.

Boston's Chinatown presents dim sum restaurants and karaoke bars in one of the oldest and most historic Chinatowns on the East Coast.

Faneuil Hall Marketplace, one of America's oldest and most-visited public markets, presents street performers, pubs, and restaurants at the heart of Boston's Freedom Trail.

The Fenway/Kenmore entertainment district is one of America's most beloved sports entertainment neighborhoods — a cluster of bars, music venues, and restaurants around the world's most loved baseball park creating a year-round entertainment ecosystem fueled by Red Sox games, concerts at Fenway, and the House of Blues. Fenway Park's extraordinary cultural importance to Boston and New England creates an entertainment district where sports and music culture intersect at the highest levels of emotional intensity.

Fenway-Kenmore near Fenway Park presents sports bars and music venues serving Red Sox game-day crowds and the Berklee College of Music community.

Jamaica Plain presents Centre Street's craft breweries and diverse restaurants, one of Boston's most artistically vibrant residential neighborhoods.

Newbury Street is Boston's most elegant entertainment and shopping corridor — an eight-block stretch of Victorian brownstone storefronts with the finest concentration of restaurants, galleries, and boutiques in New England. From the Public Garden end (with upscale designer boutiques and Café Boulud) to the Mass Ave end (with independent stores and casual restaurants), Newbury Street presents the full spectrum of Boston's sophisticated commercial culture.

The North End, Boston's Little Italy and oldest residential neighborhood, presents dense Italian restaurants and cafes along Hanover Street.

Seaport District along Boston Harbor presents rooftop bars and restaurants in one of the city's newest and fastest-growing entertainment neighborhoods.

South Boston, known as Southie, presents Irish pubs and waterfront restaurants along East Broadway, one of the city's most historically Irish-American neighborhoods.

Boston's South End is the most gastronomically distinguished entertainment district in New England — a beautifully preserved Victorian neighborhood with the highest concentration of outstanding restaurants and bars in the Boston metropolitan area. Tremont Street's corridor of nationally recognized restaurants, the concentration of the LGBTQ+ community that has made the South End Boston's most LGBTQ+-welcoming neighborhood, and the extraordinary Victorian row house architecture create an entertainment environment of extraordinary beauty and culinary depth.

The West End near TD Garden presents sports bars and restaurants serving Bruins and Celtics game-day crowds.