El Barco | Tacos y Tequilas

El Barco is a Back Bay Mexican restaurant and tequila bar that runs a weekly salsa night on Wednesdays in its large dining/bar room. The layout is unusually roomy for the neighbourhood — plenty of tables and an open area squeezed up against an attached parking garage — so dancing happens among diners rather than on a separate wooden floor. There’s also a self-serve salsa station for food, which guests often mention.

Expect a two-phase evening: dinner service first, then a drink-led party that builds late. The kitchen typically winds down at midnight on weeknights (1:00am Fri–Sat), and reviewers note the place “gets wild” after that; on salsa night the danceable space usually fills after 23:00. Cover for dance nights is commonly in the $12–15 range, and you should be ready to weave between tables rather than find a formal social-dance floor.