Punter’s Pub

The old man is eye sweetest person ever. It’s a college bar so if you’re expecting a high end club you’ve gone to the wrong place but staff is always friendly.

This is a dive bar, but not in the good sense.
Cash only-​inconvenient. Jukebox does not function correctly. The beer selection is limited and they don’t have a full liquor complement. Last time I went it smelled like stank.
Worst part is the staff-​frequently only a bartender or two trying to handle the entire (spacious) space-​who frequently got y order wrong. I can’t give this place a good review.

Slow, but friendly service. $ 8 pitcher of rolling rock so who cares, it’s connected to the equally low priced pizza joint next door.

Pretty solid dive on Northeastern’s campus, cheap beer and a window into UHOP for late night pizza drunchies. Smelled like a horse stable and the tables are pretty much all broken, but other than that it’s a solid place… staff are friendly, and the owner is one of the nicest people I’ve met!

Just went here after completing a difficult school project. Looked closed from the outside, but we went in and found a seat by the bar. I really liked the bartender (an older gentlemanly man). Cheap, strong drinks. Overall, a great experience.

Two words for this place: Cracked. Out. Do you enjoy being surrounded by total douches and drunk girls basically prostituting themselves? How about an 85 degree room that smells like a 50 year old wet mop? What about bartenders who are slower than people who have snorted their entire prescription bottle of Xanax? Or who take 25 minutes to pour a pitcher of beer then overcharge you for it? Then Punters is the place for you.
Went here on a Saturday night, place was busy (60−75% underage). There were 2 bartenders on and a full bar. One looked as if he had never bartended in his life. The other probably couldn’t have told you what day of the week it was. I ordered a pitcher of beer and it literally took 25 minutes. I handed the bartender a $ 10 bill (expecting change) — he yelled at me that it was $ 10 (which it definitely isn’t) just so he could avoid having to give me change because he was busy (this guy could have bartended when Eisenhower was president, and he was so old his teeth almost fell out when he was belligerently telling me to basically fuck off).
It could have just been a bad night for them, and maybe I’ll give it another shot, but my one time here was a pretty bad experience.

My favorite place to go when i just need to drink. No windows. Dark wood everywhere. Feet kind of stick to the floor as it probably hasn’t been washed since 1987. Darts, pool, juke box. Cash only duh. And you can order pizza through a hole in the wall. Steve, the bartender/​owner is the nicest guy around. Loves talking with you, and for us frequent drinkers, will sometimes get you a pitcher on the house. Mixes a stiff drink too. The best dive bar that ever was. Or ever will be. Please don’t go.

College dive bar.

Let me just begin by saying that Punter’s Pub holds the key to my heart. If you look up ‘dive bar’ in the dictionary, you will see a picture of Punter’s. More specifically, you will see a picture of that glorious wooden interior, those breathtaking stained glass windows, a priceless painting of The Three Stooges, and the man, the myth, the legend himself, Steve.
Besides your own home, there are few places on earth you are able to feel as comfortable as you do here. Don’t feel like getting dolled up? That’s fine, your sweatpants will look magnificent while your dancing on top of a wooden bench with a pitcher in hand. Got the drunk munchies? Go ahead and peep your head through the back window, order yourself a large pizza, then sit at the bar and eat it by yourself. Why? Because you can. Because Punter’s doesn’t judge, Punter’s gets you. Punter’s understands that sometimes you just need to throw a little Journey on the juke box while enjoying a beer or fifteen. That’s all.
I love you, Punter’s, don’t ever change.

If you’re a fan of dives, this is your deal — here’s why:
SPACIOUS: There is a ton of seating for groups to share, and overall there is a lot of standing room near the bar, as well.
BEER: There is a mediocre beer selection here… why aren’t there more varieties of Sam Adams? The alcohol selection is bigger than what most dives offer, though.
MUSIC: There’s a credit based juke box, but the standard music they play works really well without people throwing down selections.
PS — CASH CASH CASH, ONLY, FOLKS!

Punters is one of my favorite bars near Northeastern. Let me provide you with a list of reasons why.
1.) You don’t have to get dressed up. Which means I can wear sweat pants.
2.) Its NEVER too crowded
3.) Mixed drinks are strong and cheap
4.) $ 8 Pitchers of Bud Light and a non judgmental bar tender when you tell him you only need one cup.
5.) The have a jukebox so if someone’s shitty music tastes are pissing you off you can change it
6.) They have pool and darts although I’m usually too drunk to play
7.) The window to UHOP. Drunk? Hungry? Don’t want to leave the bar? Have no fear just waltz into the room with the pool table and order food from the UHOP man. Mac and Cheese wedges. Enough said.
A list of the VERY few reasons why I dislike punters
1.) Cash only.
2.) The door is the shadiest looking thing. No window in it. Just a slab of wood. Not so inviting.
3.) I can’t speak for the men’s room but the woman’s room looks like a homicide crime scene.
All in all Punters is a chill place to get your drink on. Last night me and three friends went for drink. It was pretty dead and we brought a deck of cards so we grabbed a table and played a bunch of drinking games. It was a lot of fun. It’s a good low key place to get hammered.

This is not a swanky, up scale pub. I don’t think there are Flirtini’s on the menu– I’m not sure there’s even a menu.
Punter’s is a classic college dive pub and it hasn’t changed in nearly 15 years. I used to live in Burstein Hall next door while I attended Northeastern and would pop over for a beer occasionally and pizza from UHOP. All through college this place was known as one of the few bars that would let you in with «a note from your mother.»
While this wasn’t too long ago, things have likely changed and they’re stricter with IDs.
Definitely old and dirty. When I go back for reunion bar crawls, we lovingly use the decrepit lavatories… hahaha. :)
The best parts of the bar: pizza thru a window, NU photos everywhere, good jukebox, cheep pitchers of bud light and darts (no matter how crappy).
A great place for last call if you live in the NU neighborhood.

I was told that this was a great place to go after work and that a lot of my coworkers often stopped in there. It’s true, they did, but I have no idea why. First, there was no music, unless you bought music through the jukebox, which was touchy (for looking so new). They had plenty of seating, but it was tight for getting in and out of the booth style seating. They offered food in the hole in the wall, but service was slow.
Which leaves me with the last part… the bar… I ordered a mix drink for $ 5 and it was served in the world’s smallest glass. I felt like I took a shooter of rum and coke — a baby couldn’t even get a buzz off that thing. I mean if you are going to serve a small drink, at least make it strong!
The only thing you could really order for a decent price was a pitcher of their limited selection of beers. OH and cash only? What is this — nostalgia of a time before ATM’s and credit card machines? No thanks.

Definition dive.
.Cash only!
Pizza in the hole is terrific.
The prices are cheap.
The bathrooms are hilariously run down, but not quite as dirty as some other area bars. OHE?
It’s great to go if you want to have a beer and converse with friends. It’s the kind of bar where you walk out and think to yourself «I had the best night»… Because you now know 33 new facts about your friends, theit deepest life stories, dreams, and goals, you still have money in your pocket, and you are drunk.
But this giant internet jukebox with all its bright colors and flashing lights. gotta go.

Hobbity. I mean, it’s actually pretty huge, but that just means it can fit tons of hobbits inside. I think it’s all the wooden furniture that does it, but seriously it’s just mad hobbity.
It’s cheap I guess, so there’s that. And you can order pizza through a «hole» which is actually just a window. Nothing worse than finding a window when you are looking for a hole, am i right fellas? I don’t even know what that was supposed to mean, I’m just saying the hole is a window and the pizza is not very good.
They have an awesome Buckhunter machine and less-​than-​awesome darts.
Annnnnd it’s basically in the middle of nowhere in relation to my normal migration pattern, so I doubt I will become a regular anytime soon. For what it is, a dive (ish? ey?) bar, it is perfectly fine and unremarkable.

Having only come here on a few not-​so-​memorable occasions, I never realized how SKEEVY this place is until my most recent sober-​ish visit. It kinda reminds me of that mold-​infested chalet we rented up in Jay Peak ten winters ago that made my entire family fall deathly ill. The floor is disgusting, there are strange growths coating the walls and ceilings, and the bathrooms are ABOMINABLE. Check out the picture I posted.
There are pool tables and a dart board, which is cool. However, the pool table is covered in God knows what, and the dart board is shoved in the (arguably) moldiest, most destroyed corner of the joint. Come to think of it, I probably should’ve thought twice before touching those darts. I hope I’m up on my Hepatitis shots =\
The only reason I’m awarding Punter’s an additional star is because it served as the perfect «no frills» location for my crew from 11:53pm to 12:17am on New Years Eve two years ago. We wanted to venture out of the apartment, but nobody wanted to pay a $ 40 cover charge to get into a bar we don’t like. So we figured we’d go to a bar we don’t like that was guaranteed to be free. Free it was, and wasted we got.
If you’re looking to risk your health to fulfill your hick dreams by playing Buck Hunter and pissing in an indoor outhouse, then Punter’s Pub is just the place for you. Just remember to bring cash, since they don’t accept plastic, despite it being the 21^st century.

Favoring the booze over the beers and the broken-​in over the brand-spankin’-new, I’ve had opportunity to sample a lot of well vodkas at all lot of dives. Therefore, I can say with confidence that the swill called Simmons that they’re serving up at Punter’s is among the cheapest and most foul I’ve swigged.
Laura: I’ll take a vodka soda.
Bartender: Sure; you want a double?
Laura: No thanks.
:B hands L a pint glass o’ booze:
Bartender: That’ll be $ 8
I guess that $ 8 pint of booze must have been a double, because it was rubbing alcohol strong. I did my profession proud, nursing that baby…
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As others have mentioned, there are no windows, minimal lighting, a lot of big booths, darts, billiards and pizza available from the neighbors via a hole in the wall. I didn’t try the pizza and I doubt I’ll ever get the chance — thanks to the remote location of this bar in relation to the rest of my life.
If I was local, I might come here with friends. Since I’m not, I probably won’t.

As dive bars go, well — it’s got what you need. $ 3.00 Gansett tallboys, seriously off-​brand well booze (Simmons?) Buck Hunter, a dartboard, a pool table, the boxing game where you actually mash the bag.
«pizza in a hole» is a great dive bar concept — they cut a hole into the wall into UHOP so you can get greezy slices. Good for soaking up all those three dollar tallboys.
Dark, old and gloomy, and no windows. This is a dive.
The only incongruous thing is the ENORMOUS (we’re talking like five feet tall) internet jukebox mounted on one wall.
Oh PS, if you want to play darts, bring your own. The house «darts» came from a cereal box.
Cash only, punters.

Punters is one place where I’d go if I have no other place to go to. That doesn’t mean its sad at all. No. This place is as good as it gets.
Good music playing, cheap beer, nice people and also the pool table in the back.
You can also get the not so great greasy pizza and some amazing chicken wings from that window in the back.
So if you are looking to chill w your buddies in the old-​school way, punters in the place to be. Also, find the owner around (Old man Steve) and he’ll tell you some nice old stories about Boston.
PS. This place is cash only. though there is a shady ATM in the back, but you don’t want to use it.

I went here with friends to pregame First Fridays at the MFA (don’t judge us) and was very excited with what I found in this dark little bar. I’ve been driving by this place for years and have always wanted to stop in, this was finally my chance. We were greeted by twenty five minutes of VERY loud Led Zeppelin and other classic rock that some very good people happened to put in the jukebox that went well with our collection of $ 8 pitchers of bud light.
If you are considering stopping in at a high quality dive bar then this is a fantastic place to spend your time. It is right off of the T at the MFA stop so it can easily be reached from the E line. Just remember CASH ONLY!