Delux Cafe

Delux Cafe is a neighborhood bar and restaurant.

Every surface of the zany interior is plastered with colorful kitsch, from LP covers tiling the wall to pages of a children's book decoupaged in the bathroom, all the while Cartoon Network screening on the bar telly.

Bring cash: Delux doesn't take plastic.

Halfway to trendy Tremont Street from the bustling Back Bay, the Delux Café is the ultimate hip hideaway for inexpensive eats. Bike couriers, fashionistas, brokers and artists converge --- no group goes unrepresented --- in this tiny spot decorated with old album covers, a shrine to Elvis and Christmas lights year round. Meanwhile, the menu is eclectic, not eccentric: pork quesadillas and...

One of the "best-kept secrets in the South End", this "kitschy" "biker bar" is a "relaxed" spot for "surprisingly gourmet" Eclectic eats on a "budget"; it's bedecked with Elvis memorabilia and frequented by "interesting characters", and it "only takes cash, so be prepared."

A hop-skip-jump from the hoitier blocks of Back Bay and South End, this refreshingly low-key and hipster-gravitating dive always manages to feel warm and familiar. (The narrow, dim, often bustling...

Dimly lit with small booths and a laid-back wait staff, this quaint bar and eatery can get crowded quickly. Delux Cafe may not look like much from the outside, but it is the inside that counts. All types come here looking for an inexpensive drink or supper. Quality pizzas and daily specials are satisfying and made promptly. The split pea soup, vegetable pie and herb-roasted pork loin are quite...