**NEW**Caprice
**NEW**The Modern
**NEW**Pho Republique
Mistral   Capital Grill    Sonsie    Biba
**NEW**
CAPRICE
275 TREMONT STREET,(THEATRE DISTRICT), BOSTON
(617) 292-0080
Come any Thursday to Sunday and you will see why this is the new preferred spot for the Euro set. Caprice rocks with the kind of Latino high energy usually reserved for South Beach. Talented DJ’s play Cuban and Latin dance music that gets the crowd moving their hips and grinding their pelvis’s like a scene from Dirty Dancing. Sexy, young Swiss and French "men" staff this restaurant/boite while hot looking chicas prepare the cocktails. The combo works.

Strangers rub up against strangers in a typically packed Saturday night. Cubanismo, the live Cuban band, plays here on Sunday nights, which is when Debbie goes: less crowds, live music and a very hip scene. (Saturday’s are for amateur’s darlings.)
**NEW**
THE MODERN
36 Lansdowne Street
Fenway, Boston
(617) 351-2581
What a welcome addition to what many consider to be the most torturous street in town. Enter The Modern. Classic, Elegant, and Chic. Very civilized, but gets rocking as the clock ticks on. Stylish Professionals, Eurotrash and local models rub elbows while nibbling sushi and sipping oversized ‘tinis. And how come the cool crowd is comin’ down in droves to lame-o Kenmore square, home of the drunken BU frats?….They probably heard about the opening and wished they were there (or couldn’t get in)…was the most fun Debbie has had in Boston!! So, strap on those Gucci pumps (or BCBG knockoffs) and get your well-toned butt down there!
**NEW**
PHO REPUBLIQUE
1415 Washington St.
South End, Boston
(617) 262-0005
Technically, Pho’s a restaurant, but it’s all about the bar for Boston’s cool crowd. The design? Bangkok meets Berlin…think Indochine with a little communist flair. Love the designer Dave O (who has a doggie collar just like Debbie’s…we’re twinsies!!) Located in the trendy South End, the crowd is a fab mix of gay/straight artsy and creative types. Bartenders are hot, the drinks are strong and the vibe is très funky….Debbie simply loves it, especially on Thursday nights when Katie Shamon hosts one of the hottest nights in this town. Oh, yeah, the food’s good too….lots of Thai-like soupie-noodle things and dumplings.
MISTRAL
223 Columbus Ave., Boston
(617)867-9300
Still filled with edge, attitude and Boston’s movers and shakers. Nothing has come along yet to knock it off the numero uno position since it opened last May. The Biba Crowd moved over here. Not a bad Cosmopolitan either.
CAPITAL GRILL
359 Newbury St., Boston
(617)262-8900
A study in how much testosterone can actually be squeezed into one high-end steak and cigar bar/restaurant. A Boston tradition at the upper end of Newbury Street. The bar is always filled with a bunch of suits puffing on cigars and quaffing scotch or Stoli Doli Martinis. Thursdays are insane here (almost too crowded). The restaurant is packed with men doing business dinners on expense accounts. This is the men’s club for the men who have no club. Many do the "let’s eat dinner at the bar" thing which is the best option for those married men with out wedding rings looking to pick up wanting women in their late 30s. It’s a love/hate thing that we have for this place.
SONSIE
327 Newbury St. Boston
(617)351-2500
Sonsie is truly a Boston institution. This Newbury St. bar/restaurant is always busy with a young, attractive (for Boston), energetic crowd, even when the rest of Boston is dead...dead...dead! The bar scene can sometimes be a bit cheesy, but overall, the combo works well. Sunday brunch is also good. It’s on every body’s default list as the place to start the night out when (a) no one can agree on a mutual meeting ground or (b) you want to do the "Newbury Street Crawl". One of it’s assets is that it is a half block from the Capital Grill. So, if the Sonsie bar thing isn’t doing it for you can seek refuge at The Cap and tell your friends to meet you there.
BIBA
272 Boylston St., Boston
(617)426-5684
Prior to Mistral and Sonsie, Biba was the only game in town with attitude and class. It still works. The Stoli Doli Martini’s work quickly, and Glen, the manager, works hard to make you feel welcome. You’ll fit in if you are 25 or 65.






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