Best [Possibly Fake] Historical Cheap Thrill
The Green Dragon Tavern
This city is teeming with history, but to catch it, you usually have to shell out bucks for boring walking tours and heinous entrance fees. Not so at the GREEN DRAGON TAVERN, where claims to historical fame are served up next to cheap beer and ridiculous top-40 cover bands. Some have called the bar's bluff. There was a Green Dragon Tavern established in 1654. That tavern was where the rabble-rousers planned the Boston Tea Party and the Revolutionary War. John Hancock frequented that tavern. And that tavern was demolished in 1854. This one, rebuilt later, still uses the name and touts the history. Well, this one is situated just off a brick-cobblestone road, and it certainly feels authentically old, and the Paul Revere house is just a couple blocks away. Whatever. With 35 beers on taps, does it really matter who did what where to whom?THE GREEN DRAGON TAVERN | 11 Marshall Street, Boston | 617.367.0055 | somerspubs.com/greendragon_history
