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Which restaurants and bars are the best to avoid students in Boston?

Is your neighborhood spot a haven for young professionals, or does it draw a rowdier student crowd? Share your go-to places.

Restaurants and bars to avoid students
Customers sit at the bar at Rebel, Rebel in Somerville on Wednesday. Erin Clark/Globe Staff

By Katelyn Umholtz

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U-Hauls have taken over the road, old IKEA furniture blocking sidewalks, and the line at Tatte is longer than ever: Boston’s college students are back, and you may already be in search of a place to escape the iced matcha-drinking, TikTok-watching youngsters at a Boston area restaurant or bar. 

Boston can feel like a college town, especially when class is in session at the more than 50 colleges and universities in the area, but it’s full of families and working residents outside of higher education.

As a result, your proximity to Boston’s student population depends on where you live and where you go around town. There’s a chance you may never get hit by a Berklee student’s tuba on a rush hour Green Line, or that you ever require a 3 a.m. burrito from El Jefe’s. 

But you have to know where and when to go out around Boston. 

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Where might that place be for you? Is your nearby bar more for young professionals? Are late-night student takeovers common at your neighborhood pizzeria? Is the brewery you like outside the city more family-friendly?

Boston.com wants to know where you go to avoid students, specifically bars and restaurants. Include the name of the business, its address, and the reason why it’s a great non-student place. Don’t gatekeep your responses — help out your other local residents with young children, retired Bostonians, and 30-something transplants. 

Because while our universities are part of what makes Boston great, we all need an occasional break from people who think the aughts are “vintage.”

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Katelyn Umholtz covers food and restaurants for Boston.com. Katelyn is also the author of The Dish, a weekly food newsletter.

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