Supreme Liquors

Disappointing visit for a regular that’s been living in Central Square for a decade. Simply tried returning some empty bottles and cans I bought at Supreme. Machine wouldn’t take them. Uinta Punkin and Sierra Nevada Otra Vez. When I get to the counter, I am told by the first cashier, «I don’t touch emptys, are they clean?». I explain they are. I am told they will not take them, without even a glance. I am then told I should know this would be a favor if they would take them. Eli now joins the conversation and asks if the bottles are clean. I again that I bought the beer at Supreme. They never look at the bottles. I explain I will reach out to a manger tomorrow. Eli tells me that is fine and I can use his name, and reminds me again taking returns would be a favor to me. I proceed to buy some of the Sierra Otra Vez that was not accepted. Deposit charged…
Really disappointing to get treated so badly just for returning what I paid deposit for at Supreme.

Nice store with a huge selection, and they sell a ton of Budweiser products, which means come Black Friday they have a ton of Bourbon County Stout and its offshoots, which is nice to know.
Very nice craft beer selection at the back of the store as well

Closed early. Fine to be careful about outdated blue laws but this place has less then zero customer service and simply closes when it suits them. When Massachusetts enters the 21^st century, this will be another relic.

They kick u out of the store if u don’t have a Massachusetts identification. I think this is called discrimination.

Used to go to this place once a week for years but stopped now. One of the guys working there seems to be a trouble maker. He picked on me for taking out a mix and match 6pack which I was able to do for years at the place.
There are better places around.

good price, nice beer selection, $ 9 – 10 for most 6 packs, but you can also buy them per bottle!

There are zombies who lurk outside in front by the T stop and DDs. A visit to Supreme Liquors requires me to dust of the ol’ Three Wolf Moon Shirt. Only a wolf shirt will provide protection from the living dead who lurk out front.
The store does gets a lot of traffic. The staff is always friendly and quick. The wine section looks inviting and not overwhelming in size. The store is managed very well (Our fav beer is always in stock-​and cold). The store has the best deal on my favorite beer. The promo events are set up in the back and are not in the way. The police are sometimes standing by in front to monitor, but hey this is College Town USA. However, the CPD officers i’ve encountered there are professional and friendly. I don’t know if the store is officially «dog friendly» but i’ve been in the store when customers came in with dogs (even a cranky Pitbull) and the staff didn’t bother them. The enter /​exit gets crowded, but the single double automatic doors are a plus…

I love this place. It always looks sketchy because either there are homeless people right outside or cops /​security guards outside (often both) but it’s great. Huge alcohol selection, lots of beer (you can make your own 6-​pack!), a lot of wine. The staff is helpful, if not the friendliest, and they have alcoholic ginger beer! It’s delicious!
They often have pretty good specials too. The 3/​$ 10 wines aren’t bad.
MUCH better than Libby’s across the street and anything in Harvard square.

Great liquor store. When I lived in the area I would always hit up Supreme where they let you mix and match and create your own six packs with whatever different beers you wanted to buy. Pretty nice to be able to go to the store and come home with a variety of beers in one case. Nice wine selection. They need to bring back the Murphy Stout.

Even though I am a frequent customer, the cashier Bobby refused to give me my change and made a dumb comment when I asked him for a receipt to show I paid for my purchase. When I pay by credit card, they demand to see identification. They have a great variety of liquor but the customer service is horrible. Do yourself a favor and go somewhere else.

Quick and convenient. Sometimes they have amazing deals, like a 12 pack of angry orchard for $ 13.
Hard liquor is average price like $ 25 for a 750mL of Captain, but I’ve seen cheaper. Beer is priced like many other places, on average $ 9 for a 6 pack.
Wines and spirits are varied and pricing is decent. I’ve seen Barefoot at $ 8 for 1.5 liter in the deal bins and goes up to $ 13 for no deal, so $ 9 at Supreme Liquors is good. ‘
Not a bad place to pick up liquor if you’re in the area but not the best for your buck.

Selection is good, but items are very inconsistently priced. Very rarely a good value, particularly on beers and wines.
I have been treated very rudely and condescendingly by staff, in a way that is hard to reconcile and move beyond. I will happily be bringing my business elsewhere for all future purchases.

Supreme is pretty tucked away in central square, in the sense that you would never think it was so nice and clean and big just looking at it from the outside. It’s surrounded by some pretty sketch folk, and the street and sidewalk outside are littered with trash and empty alcohol nubs.
But when you walk in it’s always a bit of a shock how big, clean and well lit it is. Their selection is pretty awesome and very well organized. You have all your vodkas, rums, and other hard liquors organized by type and price — with the rubinoff on the bottom shelf and the belvedere on the top shelf, and everything in between. The prices aren’t spectacular, but it isn’t highway robbery either. They also sell a good selection of bar tools and stuff like that.
The staff are always super normal and nice, which is actually ridiculous when you think about the type of people they must deal with on a regular basis. They aren’t really going to give you taste profile comparisons of every whiskey on the shelf, but they know where things are and will point you to where you need to go.
Great hard liquor section, great wine selection. Lots of smaller bottles and nips behind the counter as well, especially of some really expensive brands.
They are pretty strict about carding — they will scan your ID card as well to make sure it’s real. I have a young face and many times I’ve been asked for a backup/​secondary ID as well.
Overall, I find Supreme more expensive than the Liquor World in Porter, but they have a way bigger selection. Definitely my favorite liquor store in Cambridge.

Comparing Supreme and Libby’s is like comparing apples and little, moldy, half-​eaten apples. Supreme is better by far. It’s bigger, cleaner, has a wider selection of everything, and on top of that, everything is still slightly cheaper than at Libby’s.
Supreme is not just superior, it is a legitimately decent liquor store. Liquor stores don’t get much better than this in downtown Cambridge, and that’s a near-​miracle considering the quarter block around it is sketchier than an SNL marathon. It’s still kind of shady in there because half the clientele are the people who stand outside the store yelling at each other, but they usually use inside voices in the store.
And even though the employees don’t seem to be mentally all there either, they are generally good natured and know their way around the aisles. Like if you ask one of them if they have some weird fermented rice drink,
a) they actually have it,
b) the guy knows where it is, and
c) he will at least point in the right direction even if he can’t quite form words immediately.
Hey, after saving my unprepared-​to-​party ass two nights in a row, that stoned, slurry baby voice was music to my ears.

Supreme is like the incredible expanding liquor store, because it is constantly growing. Seriously, I don’t know if they can fit any more shelves here but they keep adding.
I love supreme for many reasons. I really like that I can make my own 6 pack with an ever changing selection of beer. That is the most important reason why I love it here.
The prices are nothing special, but the selection is awesome. They have a TON of beer, wine and liquor. It is rare that you get a place in a downtown area that has all three.
As for the staff — I have had multiple exclusively friendly interactions. Pay attention to the signs, have your ID ready and don’t be a jerk. If you do those, you will have success.

After many years living in Boston and shlepping to Trader Joe’s to get my cheap wine, I moved to Cambridge. A long-​time hater of liquor stores in city squares with their limited selection, close quarters, and inflated prices, I wasn’t thrilled when someone suggested I get my beer and wine at Supreme.
But hell, lugging back 5 bottles of wine from TJ’s can get tiring in the winter, so I gave it a shot. I was in luck — this place has an incredible selection and is cheap!
I was also in luck, as I soon graduated from grad school, got a job that pays actual dollars, and could graduate from cheap wine to something more… tasteful (pun intended). Luckily, they have a great selection of beer to enable my increasing beer-​snobbery, and a rotating but always fresh selection of bourbon to enable my increasing drinky-​poo-​consumption.
How much constitutes «increasing»? Well as my mother-​in-​law put it: «Now​.do you drink EVERY day?»
Luckily, at these prices, I can proudly say, «yes, in fact, i drink every day, and top shelf at that!»
She’s so proud.

Friendly and prompt service, average prices, and every kind of booze you might be looking for, including hundreds of wines, an interesting variety of beers, and even rarer beverages like Sake. That’s all I need in a liquor store.

Quick review — the liquor selection here has gotten better by leaps and bounds over the last year. Definitely don’t write these guys off.
My favorite store in Cambridge is still Liquor World in Porter Square (which has a really GREAT selection of stuff), second is Cambridge Wine and Spirits and Wine and Cheese Cask. But if you’re in Central and need to grab something, they will mostly likely be able to accomodate you. Libby’s across the street doesn’t even touch this place.

Beer section is still a mess a lot of the time, but whatever. It’s a decent store. I can get an 18 pack of Narragansett and have it home in minutes (Libby’s does not stock Narragansett. That is straight bonkers, my friends). The staff are pretty friendly and they move the lines along impressively quickly, especially considering the clientele.
The beer selection remains pretty good but never actually changes. They’ve got a lot of stuff but if you’ve been here a few times you may have already tried all the stuff.
They have other liquor-​store-​y stuff. Wine. LIQUOR, if you can believe that. Chips. Sometimes-​but-​not-​all-​the-​times ginger beer. Bitters. You know. Stuff.
It’s a reliable store and I am glad that they exist, because sometimes (most of the times) you just gotta drink at home. Alone. In the dark. And weep. And plot.
Someday I will have friends.

I’m a mixologist-​in-​training and I love this place. They have a pretty good selection of liqueurs and a huge selection of those little travel-​sized bottles that’s perfect for my many cocktail experimentations. (Get the Bailey’s Mint Chocolate… DELICIOUS!) They even carry seasonal stuff like pumpkin liqueur in the fall. Mmmm.
The wine selection is surprisingly quite extensive. I was able to find some dry Prosecco that I really needed for a cocktail once, and they carry vino from all corners of the globe. Don’t care about beer so can’t comment on that selection.
Besides its proximity to the T, here’s the other main reason you should go here: the service! Service in a liquor store can sometimes consist of a surly foreign person barking at you for ID, shoving change/​receipts in your hand and glowering at you as you walk away without a «Thank you». Not so here. My G.O.D., the people here are nice. So incredibly friendly, outgoing, knowledgeable and helpful. The crew that was working yesterday – I swear, I felt like I was a dinner guest in a Southern grandma’s kitchen. So warm and inviting.