Jay’s home page ·
Places Jay can be found ·
Places in Boston
Doyle’s Cafe
Doyle’s Cafe (a/k/a F. J. Doyle & Co.) is a traditional
Irish bar and cafe in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighbourhood.
It’s one of my favourite brunch places, and also a
frequent site of the
Biversity Boston brunches. (I’ve never actually drunk there yet,
so I can’t personally vouch for its characteristics as
a bar, but if the drink is as good as the food it won’t
leave anything to be desired.)
Location and contact information
Doyle’s is at 3484 Washington Street (on the corner of
Washington and Williams Streets) in the Jamaica Plain neighbourhood
of Boston. It’s between the Green Street and Forest
Hills stops on
the Orange Line of the
MBTA. Their phone number is 617/524-2345.
Map
- Oops, I had a map here, linked to MapQuest, but the URL no
longer works. When I get time I’ll mark up aerial photos
from MIT so I have a map that nobody else can break. :-)
Atmosphere
The walls are decorated with memorabilia commemorating Boston’s
Irish history. (And Ireland’s — I once had
a quite delightful lunch there before realizing that the painting
I was sitting next to depicted the decapitation of an 18th-century
martyr to Irish nationalism. I think I would not recommend
wearing orange there on St Patrick’s Day.) In addition,
there are a couple of old wooden telephone booths, and a clock
that they’ve adopted for their logo.
Here’s a copy of an advertising flyer I picked up there:
-
outside, with a map and contact information
-
inside, with more testimonials and photographs
Food
The food is good, traditional fare (if not particularly recommended
for those on a diet) and the portions are generous. Breakfast
is available every morning, but on Saturday, Sunday, and holidays
they have an expanded brunch menu (which I unfortunately don’t
have a copy of to scan). I particularly recommend the apple
pancakes and the eggs Bellange (like eggs Benedict, but with corned
beef hash).
Dinner Menu
Here’s their dinner menu:
Alas, for size and legibility reasons, I have to omit the ballad
on the back of the dinner menu.
Jay’s home page ·
Places Jay can be found ·
Places in Boston
Jay Sekora
<js@aq.org>
last modified 2002.09.18