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Best place to get drunk accidentally

You're sitting there, in a cozy high-backed plush-leather booth at the West Side Lounge. A soft tune comes on the stereo and tickles the ears of the casual-yet-elegant crowd. An understatedly smooth waitress places a drink menu in front of you. You peruse the list of cocktails, but you can't decide between the French 75 Champagne cocktail, the naughtily named Blood and Sand, or the Pineapple Collins. So you try them all. One after another.

And then ... boom! You're drunk. We don't know how it happened. But it did - and this relatively new addition to Cambridge's Mass Ave strip does it to us every time. Add to our glowing appreciation of the fine selection of decadent cocktails the fact that there's always a ready spot for us at the bar or in a back booth, and, well, we're feeling a bit thirsty already.

West Side Lounge, 1680 Mass Ave, Cambridge, (617) 441-5566.


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