Blossom Bar

Brookline, Massachusetts

Regional honoree for Best U.S. Bar Team at the 2025 Spirited Awards, regional honoree for Best U.S. Restaurant Bar at the 2024 Spirited Awards, and regional honoree for Best U.S. Restaurant Bar at the 2023 Spirited Awards.

Tropical, agave-forward cocktails served alongside fire-blistered Sichuan cooking in the same room, Blossom Bar is the most singular bar-and-kitchen pairing in greater Boston. Bar director Ran Duan, also behind Woburn's Baldwin Bar, runs a program heavy on tiki structure, rum stratification, and high-acid builds, with garnishes that have turned the counter into one of the country's most photographed. The room sits inside Sichuan Garden at 295 Washington Street, where the kitchen's mapo tofu and dry-fried chicken cut sharply through the drinks. Listed by World's 50 Best Discovery, it remains Boston's most credentialled cocktail destination outside the city limits. Worth the Green Line ride alone.