The well known Brighton Avenue is located in Allston, just neighboring Brighton, Cambridge and Brookline. Brighton Avenue is the home to many Boston college students, specifically Boston University. Brighton Avenue is well known because it offers many popular college bars, restaurants and hang out spots. Most notably on Brighton Avenue is the White Horse Tavern, Twin Donuts, the Model, Deep Ellem (bordering Cambridge St and Brighton Ave), Tavern in the Square, the Nile Lounge, Shabu Zen, the Silhouette among many other great places! Brighton Avenue has many restaurants and fast food style restaurants that expand from any nationality that you can think of.
Brighton Ave runs from Union Square on the west to Commonwealth Ave to the East. Brighton Avenue (and North Beacon Street) were originally built by the Roxbury Mill Corporation in 1822 to connect the Mill Dam Road (Beacon Street), a causeway that crossed the still unfilled Back Bay, with Watertown. This road was given the name Avenue Street in 1840; Beacon Street in 1846; North Beacon Street in 1860 and in 1885 the current name of Brighton Ave.