A Beacon Hill standby, this tavern looks like a regular old neighborhood bar and restaurant -- unless the Legislature is in session. Then it turns into an annex of the State House, just across the street, and the entertainment value of the conversation jumps dramatically. (In case you were absent that day, the 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition.)

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Boston 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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