Berkeley Perk Cafe
- Takeaway
- Wheelchair access
- Brunch
Boston · Back Bay
Cafés in Back Bay
Newbury Street’s brownstone cafés, a bookstore café open until midnight, Burdick hot chocolate on Clarendon Street and bagels from 05:00 on Mass. Ave.
Photo: Guohua Song, Pexels License
The Back Bay is reclaimed land. Filling of the tidal flats began in 1857, building in 1859, and by 1882 the ground was in place, laid out with five east–west streets crossed by north–south streets named alphabetically from Arlington to Hereford.1 Its rows of Victorian brownstones are among the best-preserved examples of 19th-century urban design in the country.1
Newbury Street holds most of the cafés. The first shops opened in its brownstones around 1905, and today the mile-long eastern stretch has hundreds of shops and restaurants, with the dearest boutiques near the Public Garden and looser ones toward Massachusetts Avenue.2
Local tip: For a late coffee in the Back Bay, Trident Booksellers & Cafe on Newbury Street serves until midnight every day, and Thinking Cup at 85 Newbury stays open until 21:00 on Saturdays and Sundays.
At a glance
16Cafés listed
6With opening hours
05:00Earliest opening
00:00Latest closing
- Opens earliest: Manhattan Bagel and Coffee, from 05:00 (Daily 05:00–17:00).
- Closes latest: Trident Booksellers & Cafe, until 00:00 (Daily 08:00–00:00).
- Most listed streets: Newbury Street (7), Berkeley Street (2), Newbury St (2).
- Most common features: wheelchair access (31%), takeaway (25%), brunch (25%).
Café Susu by Suitsupply
- Wheelchair access
Manhattan Bagel and Coffee
- Takeaway
- Open by 6am
Newsfeed Cafe
- Wi-Fi
- Air-con
- Wheelchair access
Thinking Cup
Trident Booksellers & Cafe
Bruno Coffee
Coffee Lovers
Courtyard Tea Room & Map Room Tea Lounge
Jonquils Cafe And Bakery
Kōhi Coffee
- Card payment
- Wheelchair access
L.A. Burdick Chocolates
- Takeaway
- Card payment
- Wheelchair access
Linden Lounge
Nourish Your Soul
- Brunch
Revival Cafe + Kitchen
- Wi-Fi
- Outdoor seating
- Brunch
Central Perk Coffee Co
- Toilets
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Coffee chains in Back Bay
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Starbucks
Show 7 locations
- 110 Huntington Avenue
- 185 Dartmouth Street
- 350 Newbury StreetMon–Sat 06:30–20:00 · Sun 06:30–19:30
- 500 Boylston St
- 64 Arlington St
- 755 Boylston Street
- 800 Boylston Street
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Caffè Nero
Show 4 locations
Chain
Tatte Bakery & Cafe
- 160 Massachusetts Avenue
- 200 Clarendon Street
- 399 Boylston StreetMon–Fri 07:00–20:00 · Sat 08:00–20:00 · Sun 08:00–19:00
Chain
Blank Street Coffee
- Back Bay
- 647 Boylston StreetMon–Sat 06:30–21:00 · Sun 07:00–21:00
Chain
Pavement Coffeehouse
- 1096;1098 Boylston Street
- 286 Newbury StreetDaily 07:00–18:00
Chain
Blue Bottle Coffee
- 163 Newbury StreetDaily 08:00–17:00
- 800 Boylston StreetDaily 08:30–16:00
Chain
George Howell Coffee
Chain
Jaho Coffee Roaster & Wine Bar
- 116 Huntington AveMon–Fri 06:30–23:00 · Sat–Sun 07:00–23:00
Chain
Caffè Vergnano
- 800 Boylston StreetMon–Thu 08:00–17:00 · Fri–Sat 08:00–18:00 · Sun 08:00–17:00
Chain
Lavazza
Getting around the Back Bay
Green Line trains stop at Arlington, Copley, Hynes Convention Center and Prudential, and the Orange Line’s Back Bay station is also a Commuter Rail and Amtrak stop.1 Copley Square, with Trinity Church and the Boston Public Library, built in 1888–92 as “a palace for the people,” is a block south of Newbury Street.1 One block north, Commonwealth Avenue runs through the middle of the neighborhood with a wide planted mall down its center.1
Newbury Street from Arlington to Mass. Ave.
At the Public Garden end, Thinking Cup at 85 Newbury opens at 07:00 every day and stays open until 21:00 at weekends; a barista there told The Boston Globe in 2025 that some drinks reached US$8 after three price rises that year.3 Revival Cafe + Kitchen at 103 Newbury serves brunch with outdoor seating.
Café Susu sits inside the Suitsupply menswear store at 240A Newbury and opens 10:00–20:00, Monday to Saturday. At the Massachusetts Avenue end, George Howell Coffee opened in August 2025 at 400 Newbury, in Lyrik Back Bay, an open-air plaza built over the Mass Pike.4
Trident Booksellers and L.A. Burdick
Trident Booksellers & Cafe at 338 Newbury has been a bookstore with a kitchen since 1984; for its 40th year in 2024 it took over the whole upper floor of its building, adding shelves and The Stacks, an event room behind a door disguised as a bookcase.5 It opens daily 08:00–00:00.
L.A. Burdick, the chocolatier Larry Burdick started in New York in 1987 and later moved to Walpole, New Hampshire, opened its Newbury Street shop in 2012.6 The café, at 220 Clarendon Street on the Newbury corner, serves hot chocolate in dark, milk and white versions.6
Early coffee off Newbury Street
Away from the shopping streets the hours start earlier. Manhattan Bagel and Coffee at 147 Massachusetts Avenue opens daily at 05:00, and Berkeley Perk Cafe at 69 Berkeley Street opens at 06:30, Monday to Saturday. Newsfeed Cafe at 700 Boylston Street, on Copley Square, has Wi-Fi and air conditioning.
Prices here run high even by Boston standards: a Boston Globe analysis of Datasembly data found coffee prices in the city up more than 36% between January and late 2025, with brewers blaming drought in Brazil and tariffs.3 Tatte’s café at 399 Boylston Street opens at 07:00 on weekdays and closes at 20:00, and Pavement at 286 Newbury opens daily 07:00–18:00.
Sources
- Back Bay, Boston, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
- Newbury Street, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
- Boston coffee prices rising (Neena Hagen, November 30, 2025), The Boston Globe, accessed October 2026
- George Howell Coffee opens at Lyrik in Boston’s Back Bay (August 26, 2025), Boston Restaurant Talk, accessed October 2026
- Newbury Street's Trident Booksellers & Café Celebrates 40 Years (Jessica Reyes, October 4, 2024), Boston Magazine, accessed October 2026
- L.A. Burdick, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
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FAQ
Back Bay cafés: questions
Which café on Newbury Street in Boston stays open latest?
Trident Booksellers & Cafe at 338 Newbury Street opens daily from 08:00 to midnight. It has combined a bookstore and café since 1984 and in 2024 expanded across the whole upper floor of its building, including an event room hidden behind a bookcase door.
Where can you get hot chocolate in Boston’s Back Bay?
L.A. Burdick, at 220 Clarendon Street on the corner of Newbury Street, serves hot chocolate in dark, milk and white versions. The chocolatier was founded by Larry Burdick in New York in 1987, later moved to Walpole, New Hampshire, and opened its Boston shop in 2012.
How do you get to Newbury Street in Boston by subway?
Take the Green Line to Arlington, Copley or Hynes Convention Center, all a block or two from Newbury Street, or the Orange Line to Back Bay station, which is also a Commuter Rail and Amtrak stop. Copley Square and the Boston Public Library are a block south of the street.
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