The best Christmas bars and restaurants in Boston for the festive season

This pocket-sized "adult snack bar" from celeb chef Tiffani Faison’s Big Heart Hospitality Group is the latest place to get all dolled up for the holiday season. Fool's Errand is always ornamental, with crystal chandeliers and irreverent French wallpaper. But the blue-and-white Fenway jewel box gets a glow-up in December with twinkling lights and snowflakes on the ceiling. Enjoy the atmosphere while sipping on one of the "Foolish Cocktails," like "I Saw Dad Kissing Santa," with vodka, pomegranate, apple, lemon and allspice dram; or Fireside Indulgence, a mug of hot chocolate with bourbon and toasted marshmallow Fluff.

Fifty-two stories above the city, Stratus—the cocktail bar at View Boston—has views like nowhere else. It serves cocktails, beer, wine and small bites, and while you do have to purchase a ticket to View Boston to visit the bar, it's certainly something to experience. (There's even a ticket option that includes a drink at Stratus.) For the first time this winter and continuing through the end of January, Stratus has become a Winter Oasis, full of sparkling white trees and iridescent decor. On the seasonal menu are specials like baked brie, prosciutto-wrapped scallops and Snow Miser, a cocktail of gin, lemon, blueberry and soda.

Hunter's is a wood-paneled hunting lodge of a restaurant year-round, with rustic wallpaper, buffalo plaid curtains, majestic portraits of bird dogs and a ton of forest green touches. For the holidays, the Southie restaurant gets even cozier with evergreen garlands around the bar, a suspended Christmas treeand more festive touches.

An ode to the tiki bars of yore, Wusong Road serves drinks with a dash of kitschy nostalgia. During the holidays, this Harvard Square hotspot becomes Wusong Wonderland, with festive cocktails to warm spirits and immersive decor.

A special-occasion destination for more than four decades, Grill 23 & Bar becomes even more beloved and opulent during the holidays. Both floors of the restaurant are decked out each holiday season with an abundance of artificial garland, wreaths, Christmas trees, holly sprigs, ribbons and cozy string lights. The steakhouse has a cozy fireplace—and it's known for shaking up the best espresso martini in Boston.

Behold the Liberty Hotel’s stunning holiday installation: the signature upside-down Christmas trees adorned with lights and ornaments, designed by local florist Cityscapes. Back for the season in mid-November, nine-foot inverted Christmas trees hang from the hotel’s soaring rotunda, making the hotel's already beautiful lobby area a sight to behold around the holidays.

The Dubliner is even cozier than usual this holiday season, with brassy baubles, festive trees and more decorating the Government Center spot. With awesome brunch and Sunday supper and live music throughout the week, The Dubliner and its celebrated chef Aidan Mc Gee is also serving special "Christmas fries" every weekend, loaded with turkey, ham, stuffing and smothered in gravy.