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Hitchhiker's Guide to Boston/PAX East - Updated 3/14
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I've added 25 places to with detailed info. I still need to go back and provide directions and parking info.
Tomorrow(later today) I'll do that and work on a front page and food/bar places within 2 miles of Hynes.
Clarendon Wine Co
563 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116-3601
(617) 266-6688
or
Bradley Liquors
1252 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215-4401
(617) 536-3407
bradleyliquors.com
Hey do most stores sell beer and liquor? Such as 7-11 walgreens and the likes or is the shaws about it?
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I dunno if you can find it around there, but I've seen Berkshire Brewing Company as far southeast as the Cape, so it's possible. From them, I'd recommend their Lost Sailor IPA.
At most places in the north east you have to get your booze from a liquor store or beer distributor.
In MA there's a law that limits nonpackies from selling beer and wine and a similar but different law regarding liquor. So a supermarket or convenience store chain has a limited number of stores that can sell alcohol. The Shaws by the Pru sells beer, wine and liquor but the Shaw's on Comm Ave only sells beer and wine for instance. The only 7-11 I know that sells beers is the one in Harvard Sq. Some Trader Joe's carry wine as well.
Wachusett Blueberry is on tap almost everywhere, you can't go wrong with Sam, and Harpoon is great but my favourite one is out of season.
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I don't know how often it's seen in Boston, but my favorite local brewery is The BBC (Berkshire Brewing Co.). It's from Western MA, but keep an eye out - they're great.
There are also a lot of different Sam Adams varieties - my favorite of which is the Boston Ale.
Google/Mapquest/Yahoo Maps? A GPS system or application might help too.
And there's this thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showpost.php?p=13584315&postcount=21
The best in my opinion is Harpoon and Magic Hat.
Long Trail makes good beers, but fruity and different.
Wachusett Brewing Company is great as well.
Also most places don't even allow it unless the cab is full some places its never allowed.
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Casa Romero
30 Gloucester Street, Boston
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On the Penny Arcade website it says that there will be a "Signing March 28 @ 1:30 PM* Hynes Convention Center 900 Boylston St Boston, MA"
Will people 'off the street' be able to go to the signing or will it only be for Pax people that have paid to enter the convention?
Does anyone know the answer to this or a better place I should post this question?
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You'll see a huge grey building across and down the street. That's the Hynes. Cross when you reach it. The entrance is on the far end.
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and because I'm bored at work here is my map for you!
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/3752/48709914.jpg
also a link to the MBTA's site, we also just call it the T
http://mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway/
Are you going downtown or where the Hynes is in the Back Bay? Either way you'll likely take the T (be it Blue Line or Silver) but where you get off and transfer will change.
Has anyone mentioned Pour House? It's across the street from the Hynes, delicious and cheep, and serves beer. Unfortunately it will probably be packed. I believe like many places it might also close to minors sometime early in the evening.
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If leaving the airport, reverse the procedure. In that case all the Massport buses will take you to the T.
Take the blue line to Government Center and switch to the green line. Take the green line to Hynes and walk over the bridge.
And I'll second the Poor House. Good food, and it was one of the cheaper food spots in the area.
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In case you happen to get lost over on Arlington St for some reason, just follow the Boylston back alphabetically to Gloucester St. The Hynes is right across the street.
Also, Gloucester is pronounced Glawster here. You ask someone where Glaw-cester street is, you'll just get the hairy eye.
Ya know...someone should put together a pronunciation guide for our Boston visitors.
Please do.
Some basics:
Suffolk = SUF-uhk
Gloucester = GLAW-stuh
Worcester = WUSS-tuh
Rochester = RAW-chess-tuh
Dorchester = DOAH-chess-tuh
Peabody = PEE-buh-dee
Haverhill = HAY-vril
Taunton = TAHN-tun
Roxbury = RAWKS-buh-ree (people will still recognize it if you say RAWKS-bear-ee, but you're likely to hear it the other way frequently ) (also apply this rule to Newbury)
Plymouth = PLIM-uth
Quincy = QWIN-zee (people will still recognize it if you say QWINS-see, but you're likely to hear it the other way frequently)
Bowdoin = BOW-dun
and a local for me: Amherst = AM-urst
Those are all the major ones I can think of, just apply the rule of the Boston accent to everything else (e.g. Charlestown becomes CHAHLS-tun, Harvard becomes HAH-vuhd, etc)
Besides, the outlying suburb wannabe folk will be precisely the sort of people you'll find in the city on the weekend so you're just as likely to hear the hyped-up mangling from them if they're trying to give you directions or some such.