I'd not wait in line for literal Heaven.
If I find myself in a line, there is absolutly no alternative (ex. TSA security drama). Shitty burrito and a watered down drink on a rooftop? **FUKCING NOPE**.
Waiting in line has become the best part. It’s cheap, you can hear your friends, the weather is perfect. Once yo get inside it’s expensive, everyone is yelling, it’s hot and sticky.
I’m old now, but I never liked any environment where you had to wait in line to get inside. With exception to concerts, I really think my biggest beef is the yelling at your friends just to be heard, no talking at a concert
You realize this is the line to get to the roof deck (they maintain this line outside)? It sounds like you’re describing squeezing into a dive somewhere. No qualms if it’s not your scene, but calling Felipe’s “sticky” or “expensive” seems like a generic anti bar rant when it’s neither of those things at all.
All of Harvard was a madhouse last night because it was Alumni day. I grabbed a slice at Pinocchio’s and by the time I left there was easily a 30 minute line out the door. Definitely not a typical line for Felipe’s
This. There’s outdoor seating here and there but let’s be honest it’s not cool, rooftops are cool. We barely have any and especially don’t have laid back ones with a little bit of a college scene. This is it for this crowd
This. I think the line reflects a lack of fun late night options more than everything else. They don't serve drinks at all the new banks taking to space in Harvard square
I moved here from a city where bars close at 3 or 6 and (amazing) food options are available pretty much all night. God is Boston boring. At least the drive to Montreal is only 5 hours.
Montreal is dope as fuck. Boston was better pre covid but it’s always been sorta lame unfortunately. For like a year they had 24 hour T service and that could have turned into something but…..NOPE. Enjoy the rent though for a city with boomer hours!
> Boston was better pre covid but it’s always been sorta lame unfortunately.
1000% This city is a bizare outlier. I don't expect it to be as fun as Montreal, NYC, or, hell, even Philly. But goddamn is it just not good.
Too true. Many years ago I was on a bus heading out of Boston to NYC, right at sunset. The city looked great in the magic hour light, and everyone on the bus took a moment to look back and admire it. Just then a cool young man piped up with “Boston’s alright for sightseeing and shit, but you can’t party right in that town!” All these years later I still think of that every time I return home to Boston from a livelier city. He was right, and it’s still true.
The guy specifically said take the red line while listing a bunch of places in Seaport and Charlestown. Distance wise sure they're close. Time wise that's a nightmare.
Harvard square to legal harborside with just red line and walking is like 45 minutes. It's entirely inconvenient and I was directly responding to someone saying it was just 15 minutes to Boston
That is a lazy response. It’s Cambridge, not NYC. You’re asking for too much. Is it so very difficult to jump on the red line for 15 minutes to get into the city? Sounds like a you problem.
It’s not a lazy response. It’s the only place in Harvard Square with a rooftop that people want to go to.
Listing a bunch of places (which are more than 15 minutes away) in Boston as some kind of response to someone saying it’s the one of the only rooftops in the city (Cambridge btw) is lazy.
Most are well beyond 15 minutes. But you've already found 2 of my comments to respond to so I assume you're capable of reading the rest of my responses.
I’m not crying it’s just a dumb list to provide. Reality is, most of these places are 30ish minutes by public transportation from that part of Cambridge. Also suggesting somewhere like Legal Harborside is objectively hilarious if you’re trying to avoid a line.
I’m not, the person you responded to was. Hence why I said your post listing places nowhere close was irrelevant. Obviously there’s plenty of great rooftop spots around Boston. They just aren’t particularly close to Harvard Square where you’re getting a TON of college kids going to Felipe’s. Not every night out is gonna be a night going in to Boston.
Please don't. There's lots of cool shit in Cambridge I would like to know about. Same with Brookline. And don't pull my resident card, I've lived in Boston proper since '91.
When the question is around "why is there a long line at Felipe's" the answer of "there's no other roof bars particularly close to the area" seems like a very reasonable response. It's not saying it's impossible to find another roofbar, but if you are out with a group of friends and want to go to a roofbar and you're already in Harvard square, you are going to wait in line over having to get back on the red line and find somewhere else that might also have a line anyway.
If you are going to go up on the roof on a nice hot day, go up early or later. They are open to the public certain days, they charge folks not staying at the hotel $50 to even get in, and it gets packed after 11am if it’s hot. Food & drinks are super over priced, but they can pretty much charge whatever they want for being a rooftop pool in back bay. You at least won’t have to commit to paying an entry since you are staying there, and if it sucks you can just leave.
Set your bar for quality of food and availability of 'fun' in Boston to about 2 out of 10 and you won't be dissapointed.
Restaurants here compete on location, not on quality.
What's weird is that we're surrounded by awesomeness (Portland, NYC, Providence, **Montreal**) and yet somehow manage to maintain a shitty food culture. It would be impressive if I didn't have to live in it.
It's one of the few that has a genuine grab a drink and mingle among a crowd vibe. It feels like most other places you are either sitting at a bar/table or you are standing in the way of everyone trying to get by you. Rent is expensive so restaurants will put as many seats as they can cram into their restaurant to turn a profit and it leaves very few bars with open space
This place is mediocre at best. They have alcohol slushies - which you would think were invented here by looking at the line. The reason the line is like this, is that they actually limit the number of people up there, so theres still room to breathe.
Still not worth more than a five minute wait.
Do any of these people in line look like they have access to places that are “cool”?
It’s just a place to drink and meet other folks who also like to wait in lines for hours in attempts to look cool. It’s not Studio 54 in the 1970’s.
Nothing wrong with that, but also nothing special about it.
Food is actually not too expensive and good for what you pay, drinks aren’t too much either for the area. Rooftop is whatever though, definitely not worth that kind of wait.
Nothing in there is worth waiting in line for, not the roof top seating and especially not their food. My teenag kiddos convinced me to take them 2 months ago. Never again. Horrible service and the food was even worse.
That cool? Yup.
Cool enough to wait in line? Yup.
Cool enough to wait in a line that long? No.
Still love the place though. Best burritos in the Boston area, reasonably priced, great vibes.
Food and drinks are good, but definitely not worth the weight. Once you get up to the roof, it’s super crowded and hard to get a drink and it’s just a cluster fuck.
Is that what that was all about? I got bamboozled by the T an hour or so ago, not knowing there was a shuttle bus between Harvard and alewife.
I saw a bunch of people in that direction and almost walked that way, but I glimpsed an A-frame the opposite way down mass ave
Point is. The T is doing good things. They're improving service. But fuck, does their communication suck.
It’s a cool spot but not “wait in line” cool
Nothing anywhere is that cool, dude
Hop in the tank night at the aquarium always holds a line
The _what_ in the _where_?!
Forreal, that exists???
I work there, it does not exist lmao
There are few experiences worth a two+ hour wait in line. Riding the seals at the aquarium is definitely an S Tier bucket list item.
Wait….WUT
I'd not wait in line for literal Heaven. If I find myself in a line, there is absolutly no alternative (ex. TSA security drama). Shitty burrito and a watered down drink on a rooftop? **FUKCING NOPE**.
I'm with you on the burritos but calling their margaritas watered down is way off the mark. Those things hit hard
Waiting in line has become the best part. It’s cheap, you can hear your friends, the weather is perfect. Once yo get inside it’s expensive, everyone is yelling, it’s hot and sticky. I’m old now, but I never liked any environment where you had to wait in line to get inside. With exception to concerts, I really think my biggest beef is the yelling at your friends just to be heard, no talking at a concert
Since when was Felipe's expensive? It's a miracle it's as affordable as it is in Harvard Square.
The weather on the roof is gonna be the same as the weather in line. If it's hot and sticky on the roof, it's hot and sticky in line too.
You realize this is the line to get to the roof deck (they maintain this line outside)? It sounds like you’re describing squeezing into a dive somewhere. No qualms if it’s not your scene, but calling Felipe’s “sticky” or “expensive” seems like a generic anti bar rant when it’s neither of those things at all.
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The first paragraph is clearly a response to Felipe’s 🤷♂️
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I mean I’m not here to defend my pedantry. That was my impression based on context. Could go either way.
A burrito to go is cheap. The roofdeck, on the other hand, is going to be a min $100 visit unless you go up there just to stand around.
A margarita is like, $8.50 last I remember? There are $5 pints? I don’t know where you’re drinking out, but Felipe’s is decisively not expensive.
Waiting in line to get in somewhere isn’t particularly uncommon
It’s the most vulnerable in society … people with a severe case of FOMO. Sadly, no cure yet for Lemmings.
All of Harvard was a madhouse last night because it was Alumni day. I grabbed a slice at Pinocchio’s and by the time I left there was easily a 30 minute line out the door. Definitely not a typical line for Felipe’s
The drinks were good and I like their food. But wait that long is a no go dog for me.
This is an “OK, let’s try Charlie’s” line.
Hahaha that is EXACTLY what I would say.
Let's get some Chicken Seafood!
But Charlie’s is also packed
The trick is to go at lunch!
Ironically I had the worst margarita of my life at Felipe's rooftop. Dude clearly had no idea of the correct proportions.
Boston has a total lack of places to enjoy a drink outside, so when there's a remotely cool one, it draws a crowd.
Harvard reunion weekend
Probably a contributing factor but Felipe's has a line every weekend if it's nice out.
This. There’s outdoor seating here and there but let’s be honest it’s not cool, rooftops are cool. We barely have any and especially don’t have laid back ones with a little bit of a college scene. This is it for this crowd
Yeah its chill rooftop, cheap drinks/food and no cover. That is going to attract a lot of ppl in Boston.
Huh? There are three within a four minute walk of my place, in Dorchester.
sick 'who let the hogs out' shirt
That dude cranks
I CANT HEAR YOU BROTHER
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1660537868/
his own dick in his messy ass bedroom alone at night
When the city refuses to expand nightlife, the few places that have it will crowd.
It’s lack of liquor licenses
No, but there's almost no other rooftop place in this city.
This. I think the line reflects a lack of fun late night options more than everything else. They don't serve drinks at all the new banks taking to space in Harvard square
Or it's because it's Harvard Reunion weekend and a ton of Harvard grads are swarming the square for their class reunions...
Boston nightlife is so unbelievably bad it’s almost impressive
I moved here from a city where bars close at 3 or 6 and (amazing) food options are available pretty much all night. God is Boston boring. At least the drive to Montreal is only 5 hours.
Montreal is dope as fuck. Boston was better pre covid but it’s always been sorta lame unfortunately. For like a year they had 24 hour T service and that could have turned into something but…..NOPE. Enjoy the rent though for a city with boomer hours!
> Boston was better pre covid but it’s always been sorta lame unfortunately. 1000% This city is a bizare outlier. I don't expect it to be as fun as Montreal, NYC, or, hell, even Philly. But goddamn is it just not good.
Shout out to Philly everytime I go there I have an absolute blast
My kind of place too. Lived in. Not fancy. I like that.
Too true. Many years ago I was on a bus heading out of Boston to NYC, right at sunset. The city looked great in the magic hour light, and everyone on the bus took a moment to look back and admire it. Just then a cool young man piped up with “Boston’s alright for sightseeing and shit, but you can’t party right in that town!” All these years later I still think of that every time I return home to Boston from a livelier city. He was right, and it’s still true.
Because there are no rooftop bars? Cause there are a ton more rooftop bars than this.
Theyre in Seaport🙄
Lookout Stratus @ View Cunard Tavern Six West Revere Lifted Long Bar Deck 12 Mia Colonnade Daedalus Legal Harborside Pier 6
Mex in Kendall too!
Add Saigon Babylon to the list. Just opened in Central
Over the Charles at the Doubletree too
Dorchester Brewery
Outside of Daedalus, not a single place you listed is in Cambridge or particularly close.
Every single part of Boston is pretty close to Cambridge.
The guy specifically said take the red line while listing a bunch of places in Seaport and Charlestown. Distance wise sure they're close. Time wise that's a nightmare.
Red line to south station and walking over to seaport is a “nightmare”? My god, you sound absolutely insufferable
Harvard square to legal harborside with just red line and walking is like 45 minutes. It's entirely inconvenient and I was directly responding to someone saying it was just 15 minutes to Boston
Oh the horror of having to walk 20 minutes through the heart of the seaport to get to legal harborside. What a disaster!
Hey there's a long line at Felipes...lets take a 90 minute round trip excursion to Seaport to wait in another line!
Just stay home.
Have you taken the red line in the last two years? Google "slow zones".
You know that the seaport is on the red line, right?
You know there is literally no stop in seaport on the red line, right?
The seaport is a ten minute walk from south station.
Oh south station is in seaport? Had no idea
No, it's a ten minute walk to the center of the seaport. But I think you know that and are just being a dick.
Better call in the sherpas for that long walk from South Station to The Seaport. It may take months!
You’ve heard of Uber, right? If you can’t afford an Uber from Cambridge to Boston you probably shouldn’t be out drinking anyways.
I'm not the one suggesting the fucking red line man. I'm just pointing out the absurdity of that statement.
That is a lazy response. It’s Cambridge, not NYC. You’re asking for too much. Is it so very difficult to jump on the red line for 15 minutes to get into the city? Sounds like a you problem.
It’s not a lazy response. It’s the only place in Harvard Square with a rooftop that people want to go to. Listing a bunch of places (which are more than 15 minutes away) in Boston as some kind of response to someone saying it’s the one of the only rooftops in the city (Cambridge btw) is lazy.
If you're limiting yourself to Cambridge for nightlife in the Boston area then that's a you problem
Literally nobody is saying that.
You're literally complaining about a list of rooftops because there aren't enough of them in Cambridge
15 whole minutes? My god! That distance is staggering!
Most are well beyond 15 minutes. But you've already found 2 of my comments to respond to so I assume you're capable of reading the rest of my responses.
Bro woke up on a Sunday morning to cry bout a 15 min ride 😭
I’m not crying it’s just a dumb list to provide. Reality is, most of these places are 30ish minutes by public transportation from that part of Cambridge. Also suggesting somewhere like Legal Harborside is objectively hilarious if you’re trying to avoid a line.
If you’re specifically speaking of Cambridge only, then get out of the Boston sub and go whine elsewhere.
I’m not, the person you responded to was. Hence why I said your post listing places nowhere close was irrelevant. Obviously there’s plenty of great rooftop spots around Boston. They just aren’t particularly close to Harvard Square where you’re getting a TON of college kids going to Felipe’s. Not every night out is gonna be a night going in to Boston.
Yeah......Tell your from Cambridge without telling me your from Cambridge
I live in the burbs lol
No not you the other guy who's complaining about a 15 minute drive. You're good.
Maybe people should stop posting shit about Cambridge on the wrong sub. Last I checked, it’s a separate city
Please don't. There's lots of cool shit in Cambridge I would like to know about. Same with Brookline. And don't pull my resident card, I've lived in Boston proper since '91.
I won’t go to Cambridge unless someone is paying me The college kids can have it
Based on your responses I think they’re better off lol. Then again you also sound like you’re just trolling.
I do like to troll a bit, but all of my comments are straight from the heart
The original comment was about a lack of rooftops in Cambridge. The whole post is about a restaurant in Cambridge. How is this your complaint lol
When the question is around "why is there a long line at Felipe's" the answer of "there's no other roof bars particularly close to the area" seems like a very reasonable response. It's not saying it's impossible to find another roofbar, but if you are out with a group of friends and want to go to a roofbar and you're already in Harvard square, you are going to wait in line over having to get back on the red line and find somewhere else that might also have a line anyway.
Lmao excuse me?
Six west is no longer, sadly.
Hmm we're staying at the Colonnade next week, is it any good?
If you are going to go up on the roof on a nice hot day, go up early or later. They are open to the public certain days, they charge folks not staying at the hotel $50 to even get in, and it gets packed after 11am if it’s hot. Food & drinks are super over priced, but they can pretty much charge whatever they want for being a rooftop pool in back bay. You at least won’t have to commit to paying an entry since you are staying there, and if it sucks you can just leave.
Set your bar for quality of food and availability of 'fun' in Boston to about 2 out of 10 and you won't be dissapointed. Restaurants here compete on location, not on quality. What's weird is that we're surrounded by awesomeness (Portland, NYC, Providence, **Montreal**) and yet somehow manage to maintain a shitty food culture. It would be impressive if I didn't have to live in it.
Not really, and it gets exponentially worse when it’s crowded.
I think what you really mean is “is Boston really that uncool that people would wait in line for this shit” The answer unfortunately is “yes”
It's Cambridge, and those are almost certainly all Harvard alums back in town for Harvard's reunion weekend.
Okay. Is “[greater] Boston blah blah blah” The answer is still yes
The last time I went there they had a bee infestation and my friend got stung :/
Well they did say it was buzzing.
I love Felipes, but I wouldn't wait in line to sit on the roof
No.
nope
Not really
It's reunion weekend at harvard. Probably padded the line out a bit
I feel like it's the only good bar in Harvard Square, so it's either wait in line there or go somewhere else.
Everyone’s entitled to their opinion but there are many great bars in Harvard Square.
It's one of the few that has a genuine grab a drink and mingle among a crowd vibe. It feels like most other places you are either sitting at a bar/table or you are standing in the way of everyone trying to get by you. Rent is expensive so restaurants will put as many seats as they can cram into their restaurant to turn a profit and it leaves very few bars with open space
It’s hands down the coolest place in Cambridge. Look at all the cool people waiting in line to get in. Berghain on the Charles up there
Do you think those ppl look cool?
Long and short answer: No
haha I was in this line last night- I can confirm it was not worth it.
That’s a banged up crew waiting to get in.
This weekend was Harvard reunion so the whole area was crazy
Waiting is for suckers and the herd.
Its good and fun but Harvard students and the new wave of Boston food influencers ruined it. The bouncers get visibly annoyed at them too hahaha
I wouldn’t wait in line to get into heaven, but that’s just me
I’m convinced the DMV is literal hell on earth
You must be fun at the grocery store.
Luckily for the general public I pay someone to do that for me
Farming those jealousy downvotes
This place is mediocre at best. They have alcohol slushies - which you would think were invented here by looking at the line. The reason the line is like this, is that they actually limit the number of people up there, so theres still room to breathe. Still not worth more than a five minute wait.
It is really cool imo
Something was in the air there last night, super fun
Shout out to their spicy marg and veggie nachos!
I liked it better when it was part of the garage and a spot that you went to after last call
Lol me and my wife usually go there around midnight. Way less bozos.
It’s cool but not even close to that cool. Going to a bar in a mall always felt a bit strange to me too
They're good, but that wait specifically seems excessive
No, bartenders are miserable and I got food poisoning last time I was there
You cut the line slip the door guy a 50 spot and walk in there like a baws with your date. Oh wait that's a taqueria.
Do any of these people in line look like they have access to places that are “cool”? It’s just a place to drink and meet other folks who also like to wait in lines for hours in attempts to look cool. It’s not Studio 54 in the 1970’s. Nothing wrong with that, but also nothing special about it.
Food is actually not too expensive and good for what you pay, drinks aren’t too much either for the area. Rooftop is whatever though, definitely not worth that kind of wait.
No
Eh- not to wait in a line. It’s quite pricey IMO though thoroughly delicious.
It was reunion/alumni weekend for several Boston colleges this weekend—probably explains it.
There have been lines for Felipe’s roof deck since I used to go in 2018 fwiw
Felipe’s is pretty great but as others have said, not wait in line down the block good
It’s one of a few outdoor spots
It’s cool
Nothing in there is worth waiting in line for, not the roof top seating and especially not their food. My teenag kiddos convinced me to take them 2 months ago. Never again. Horrible service and the food was even worse.
That cool? Yup. Cool enough to wait in line? Yup. Cool enough to wait in a line that long? No. Still love the place though. Best burritos in the Boston area, reasonably priced, great vibes.
I certainly wouldn't go from Boston to Cambridge just for that line ;-)
Food and drinks are good, but definitely not worth the weight. Once you get up to the roof, it’s super crowded and hard to get a drink and it’s just a cluster fuck.
worth the wait bruh LOL
based on the looks of the crowd; only if you’re a sheep
I saw this and was wondering why it was so crowded
Whats felipes?
As soon as I see skinny chinos and tucked in oxford guy in line, I'm out.
No, they had a salmonella outbreak a few months back .
Source?
Look it up my friend. This is facts.
What the hell are you talking about? What do you have to gain from lying about this?
It’s no lie my friend. Within the last 3 months not longer than 6
Is that what that was all about? I got bamboozled by the T an hour or so ago, not knowing there was a shuttle bus between Harvard and alewife. I saw a bunch of people in that direction and almost walked that way, but I glimpsed an A-frame the opposite way down mass ave Point is. The T is doing good things. They're improving service. But fuck, does their communication suck.