Lying beneath the bleachers in center field, a few feet from Ted Williams Red Seat, is newest addition to Fenway. A unique bar, where the patrons are treated to not only great food and drink, but an unprecedented baseball experience. With a window that looks directly through centerfield and into the park, it is the only view of its kind. Bleacher Bar is Fenway’s newest annex, a place where the customer can not only relax and an enjoy and extraordinary bar experience, but a place where the customer can feel the very history that is Fenway Park.

Patrick Lyons runs 30 restaurants and bars around Boston. While I enjoy his famous-chef projects like Scampo and Towne, Nothing wrong with a well-kept saloon, but they're more about drinks and a scene than food. Bleacher Bar boasts the novelty of being tucked under Fenway Park's Section 35, its huge window providing a spectacular center-field warning-track view of that hallowed field.
 
First, the ugly whiffs: dull, mushy onion rings ($5), grilled beef skewers ($8) made from off-tasting (probably old) flank steak, a flatbread ($11) with tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil built on one of the saddest, most flavorless excuses for a cracker-like crust in my memory. The kitchen's average improves with fried pickles ($5), oddly using spears instead of chips but benefiting from a delectable fried-batter coating, and buttery, warm soft-pretzel sticks ($5). All-beef sliders ($10) are more like three normal-size griddled hamburgers layered with cheese, caramelized onions, tomato, shredded lettuce, and mayo on respectable rolls: a tasty bargain. Deli sandwiches are similarly workmanlike, good and generous, like a salty grilled Reuben ($11) or liverwurst ($8) with onions and mustard on a quality onion roll. Chicken salad ($9) is chunky, well-seasoned, and crunchy with iceberg lettuce: a cool, substantial, comforting sandwich on soft bread. This being a sports bar, flat-screen TVs broadcast games from every corner, and there's a decent selection of draft and bottled beers ($4–$5.50).

Bleacher Bar, located at 82A Lansdowne Street in Boston, is open Sunday–Wednesday, 11 am–1 am, and Thursday–Saturday, 11 am–2 am. Call 617.262.2424 or visit bleacherbarboston.com.