Best Speakeasies in Revere

The food was awesome and good portions. The service was also great

Arge took wonderful care of us at our date night out with her warm smile & professional service. The lobster nuggets were perfectly fried and the cocktails, champagne, and wine all fabulous! The Wagyu steak frites was so tender & perfectly cooked and the scallops, inventive and savory! We loved the charming ambience-reservations are a must for this local gem!

I went to Monarch with a group of colleagues and we had a great experience. Such beautiful space. The service was attentive and friendly but not overbearing. We ordered cocktails off of the menu and custom in many ways and they hit it out of the park. Pizza was delicious (we ordered it from upstairs at Alice). Country rolls were yummy and a great recommendation from our waiter. The whipped ricotta was nice but a bit on the small side for five of us to share but still good. Lovely space. Welcome to Kendall Square Monarch - we needed you!

The cocktails were so different and very tasty. The place is very cozy and the staff was wonderful

So this seems like a really good concept that perhaps hasn’t quite decided what it wants to be bIs this a laid back lounge or a loud club? The positives: great music, the food is limited but very good, ambience is swanky and interesting inside, the speakeasy concept…asking for a password, secret entrance, all that’s fun. The drinks are also very good by the way. What wasn’t quite as good was the volume at which music was played tonight. There was a band with the lead singer from Colombia, who had a very nice voice and a lot of energy, but you couldn’t actually hear her vs the sound system. I have a Decibel Meter on my iPhone and I measured that they were consistently playing for about the first hour we were there at 92 to 95 dB which is incredibly loud and hard on your ears. That is earplug level to the point where you it’s hard to talk to the person next to you and virtually impossible to the person across from you. It does not help that The floor is stone and there’s a lot of bright reflected surfaces so it just became a bit harsh at those volume levels. Maybe add some carpets and some sound absorptive wall treatments if it’s a music venue? The band tonight was great by the way and they took a request or two and were super fun and interactive with the tables. After their second set, I mentioned it to her and they toned it down volumes in the high 70s to low 80 decibels and suddenly you could hear yourself talking in there. If it was a lounge and kind of chill and laid-back, could hear glasses clinking, then would be more with the speakeasy theme we felt. Overall, it’s nice to have a music venue at Alewife with good food. We’d come back for sure to have good music played a bit less loudly than it was tonight in this small and intimate venue. One important note: prior reviews have mentioned a $20 cover charge per person. This was not charged to us tonight. The final bill came to $87.50 a person which was not unreasonable for what we eat and drank.