Cheers Beacon Hill is a bar/restaurant located on Beacon Street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, across from the Boston Public Garden. Founded in 1969 as the Bull & Finch Pub, the bar is best remembered internationally as the exterior of the bar seen in the NBC sitcom Cheers, which ran between 1982 and 1993. [1]

As a longtime fan of the show, I just had to visit the original Cheers bar — formerly known as the Bull & Finch Pub. In this post, you’ll see exactly what it’s like to visit Cheers in Boston. Plus, my tips to help you make the most of your trip there!

The historic landmark pub was transformed from a long-standing neighborhood gathering spot for locals into one of Boston’s must-see stops for visitors after gaining notoriety as the location of the popular 1980’s TV sitcom, Cheers. The Cheers Pub was founded in 1969 and was discovered in 1981 by Hollywood couple Mary Ann and Glenn Charles.

Cheers is an American television sitcom, created by Glen Charles & Les Charles and James Burrows, that aired on NBC for 11 seasons from September 30, 1982 to May 20, 1993. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television.

2025年2月3日 · The bar, which opened in 1969 and was originally named the Bull and Finch Pub, had been a quiet, low-profile, local watering hole. That was until it was discovered by Hollywood in 1981 and premiered in 1982 as the bar Cheers for the TV show of the same name.

2015年2月5日 · The Boston pub that inspired the fictional bar in the NBC sitcom, Cheers, is actually a real neighborhood institution that has been serving its Beacon Hill environs for over 45 years.

2020年9月3日 · The ‘Cheers’ replica bar at Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston closed at the end of August. Opened by Tom Kershaw, whose premises on Beacon Hill became the model for the legendary show’s setting, it’s been part of city lore since 2001.

2021年9月14日 · Many fans of the hit sitcom Cheers might not realize that the show’s titular bar took it’s inspiration from a real-life Boston location named the Bull and Finch Pub. In fact, the real-life pub actually used for the fictional bar’s exterior shots on the show.

Now experience the Boston pub that inspired it all – Cheers on Beacon Hill in Boston, MA.