Boston's Inexpensive Bar Bites

If you want some of the best value food in Boston or Cambridge where should you eat? Well, a good choice often is to sit at the bar, where they may have a special bar menu with less expensive choices. Here are some of the restaurants which currently have special value bar deals.

Avila Modern Mediterranean
One Charles Street South
Boston
Phone: 617-267-4810

Avila Modern Mediterranean offers eight “Pinchos” for only $6 at their spacious bar overlooking the main dining room. Items include: Mixed Olives in Orange Zest; Burrata Cheese with Olive Oil; Spicy Chorizo Mussels; White Anchovies with Olive Oil; Gorgonzola Mac & Cheese; Crispy Calamari with Aioli; Jamon Serrano Reserva; and, Crispy Fries with Cheese Fondue.

On their main menu, Avila also offers an additional eight “Small Plates” for $6: Goat Cheese Truffle Croquettes; Escargot with Garlic Butter, Pernod and Parsley; Sauteed Chicken Livers with Tomatoes and Cilantro; Kobe Beef Meatball and Parmigiano; Yucca Sticks with Chorizo Aioli; Steamed Mussels with Saffron Cream; Crispy Squid with Lemon Mayo; and, Baked Moussaka.

Cuffs, An Irish Bar
The Back Bay Hotel
350 Stuart Street
Boston
Phone: 617-266-7200

Enjoy the spacious bar or find a snug little corner of your own and enjoy a pint and satisfying snack. Cuffs is an Irish bar with the odd reminder of the premises’ former function, Boston police headquarters. Cuffs offers a wide variety of appetizers and bar plates including: PT Farm Pulled Pork Sliders ($4); Potato Frites with Truffle Ketchup ($5 – also available in sweet potato); Crispy Home Made Pork Rinds with sour cherry and apple compote ($6); and, Roasted Red Pepper Hummus ($6).

Cuffs also serves an array of bar bites in the range of $7 - $9, including: an ever changing Soup of the Day; Lobster Bisque with Cognac Cream; Portuguese Crispy Calamari; Roasted Crimini Mushrooms; Cornmeal Fried Shrimp; House Smoked BBQ Wings; Roasted Pumpkin Risotto “mac&cheese” Style; Boston Hot Dog; Misty Knoll Tuscan Style Chicken Burger; Irish Pan Burger; and, Double Portobello Manchego Burger.

dante
40 Edwin H Land Blvd.
Cambridge
Phone: 617-497-4200

Restaurant dante features hot and cold “Sfizi” (Small Plate) menus nightly at the bar, where all items are offered at $5. “Hot” items include: Carne (traditional meatballs, tomato sugo); Arancini (porcini risotto, scarmoza, truffle honey); Tomino (soft goat’s milk from Piedmont, sweet and sour peppers); Mini Maile (little pork burger, Vermont cheddar, maple sugar, pancetta); Mini Manzo (little beef burger, buffalo mozzarella, smoked pepper aioli, fried cippolini); and, Calamari (fried calamari, lemon and peperoncini, grilled lemon thyme aioli). “Cold” items include: Baccala (salt cod, peperoncini, potatoes, celery); Cannellini (white bean drip, black truffle, crostini); Pomodoro (bruschetta, native wine rip cherry tomatoes, garlic, Sicilian oregano); Fegatini (bruschetta, Tuscan chicken liver, giardiniera); Ricotta (bruschetta, house-made ricotta, salsa Genovese, toasted pine nuts); Speck (smoked prosciutto, pear mostarda, pecorino ginepro).

Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar
217 Stuart Street
Boston
Phone: 617-292-0808

Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar invites you start your night out right by experiencing their “5 for $6 ‘til 7” menu, offered at the lively and vibrant Wine Bar. Fleming’s features 5 full-portioned signature appetizers, all for the incredible value of $6 each, available until 7pm seven nights a week.

Fleming’s five full-sized appetizer options include: Tenderloin Carpaccio; Sweet Chile Calamari; Wicked Cajun Barbeque Shrimp; Seared Ahi Tuna; and, Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail. Fleming’s has also recently added an 8-oz. Prime Burger with Cheese, Bacon and Colossal Onion Rings to their “5 for $6 ‘til 7” menu.

Legal Sea Foods
All locations

Legal Sea Foods is now offering their bar patrons a deal on their in-season raw oysters with “6 for $6 before 6.” Come to any Legal Sea Foods bar between 3:00-6:00pm and enjoy a half-dozen oysters for only $6. Choose from Legal Sea Foods’ featured varieties such as: Kumamoto, fresh cucumber taste with a creamy finish; P.E.I., assertive, briny and earthy tones with a clean ocean finish; West Coast, sweet citrus briny start with an earthy, fruity finish; and, East Coast, clean North Atlantic flavor.