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Boston; stuff to do
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I'm going to be in Boston this weekend visiting family, and we need stuff to do. Places to see, restaurants to eat at, etc.
Things that are fun but not too touristy.
Things that are fun but not too touristy.
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I'm a big beer critic, so I'd probably look for some local breweries. Don't know of anywhere specific though =/
Edit: Haha, my old Boston post may apply to you after all
or other meat for that matter, I'm a vegetarian.
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I agree with the Bruins...after the game head over the The Harp for dinner. Legal Seafood is always nice.
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Food wise, check out the Barking Crab for good cheap seafood. Don't do Legal Seafoods, they're overrated and overpriced. I tend to recommend McCormick and Schmick's in Fanueil as a good replacement. Brown Sugar in Allston has great Thai and Dali in Somerville is one of my favourite Tapas places. The MFA is fantastic, definitely take a peek. I you plan on taking the T a lot get a weekend pass. Also, mbta.com has some great trip planners to help you find your way. The trains don't run on any real schedule and they stop before 1 am so keep that in mind.
IMAX movies at the Museum of Science are fun while the MOS itself sucks. Harvard Sq has some good places to eat/drink but I couldn't spend 10 minutes there outside of that. Faneuil Hall is cute, but filled with chain stores like Crate & Barrel and Gap. The bull market is super touristy. The food is mediocre (but Boston Chowda does a good clam chowder in a bread bowl) and don't bother wasting your money on Pizzeria Regina. Go to the North End and go to Bova's. Do not go to Mike's or Modern, you'll thank me after you get a canoli and calzone at Bova's.
Fire and Ice is a fun place to eat but the Back Bay location gets busy fast so plan accordingly. Bar wise downtown I like the Kinsale in Govt Center, Sunset Bar and Grill in Allston, Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, and Boston Beer Works by North Station and in Fenway.
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They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
Newbury st, though crowded on weekends, may be good for a walk. Highlights include, among others:
Shino Express Sushi (Now Snappy Sushi, which is a much dumber name)
Trident (Cafe and Bookseller)
Newbury Comics
Joe's American Bar and Grill (get their clam chowder in a bread bowl)
The Boston Common and Public Gardens are also fun to walk though (and hey, it's going to be in the 40's this weekend, basically tropical).
If you find yourself down in Jamaica Plain I highly recommend the original JP Licks (Ice Cream and Coffeehouse), along with a walk around Jamaica Pond. That area has plenty of other good restaurants, too.
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The Freedom Trail is a form of torture we send annoying tourists on to get them out of our hair. Some people have started on it and never returned.
It makes so much more sense to use it as a way to pick out the things you want to do. This is why I say do a trolley tour. It gives you the overview without the walking. And the hop on/hop off is an easy way for tourists to get around the city without getting too confused.
But yeah, you got a lucky break on the weather.
The Old North Church I think is what you're walking about but we have a lot of old churches in Boston. The graveyard is the Granary Burial Ground on Tremont I'm assuming.
I have no idea what boardwalk you're talking about in Boston unless you mean the Harbor Walk or the lil craphole in Revere (sidenote: don't visit Revere, awful place).
there's a sneaker/urban fashion store called bodega in which you enter through a secret vending machine (not quite on newbury, but a side street). this is i feel the coolest store on newbury, and you'll have to ask someone how to get there as it's a little bit complicated, but it's a 5 min walk from newbury st. there's a lot of other cool sneaker stores on newbury st, Xsquared, karmaloop.. as well as other shops.
someone mentioned the shino express sushi restaurant, and i recommend this- very cheap, good sushi.
catch a BU/BC/Northeastern/Bruins hockey game! This city bleeds hockey, probably the biggest hockey city in the U.S.
The best place to eat in Boston, in my opinion, is the famed north end. Best italian food I've had (and I've been to Italy numerous times)..
All of the stuff everyone else posted is great too- Fanueil Hall's the tourist spot to go. Boston Commons looks really nice right now with the snow everywhere, and the Beanpot championship between BU and Northeastern is next week on monday (although I have no interest, seeing as how BC aint in it.. but we suck, so I'm not mad). Lot of stuff always going on in Boston.
This.
I...quite enjoyed the freedom trail.
Did I do it wrong? :oops:
Also seconding the Brown Sugar Cafe as good for Thai food, and if you're looking for something really fancy there's Pigale in the Theater district (not Pignale) that is really expensive but good. Finale is kind of fun in a touristy way, they serve desserts that are fancy and really more than enough as a meal on their own.
also the already mentioned Mike's Pastry is there in the neighborhood so you can follow up dinner with one of those awesome chocolate chip cannoli
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No, no, no, no, no. Mike's and Modern are the most over rated bakeries in the city. There's a reason you see very few natives with their boxes but tons of tourists.
My favorite comic shop was always Comicopia in Kenmore Square, but less so after the owner seemed to fire the older comic geeks who worked there and hired teenage girls. I appreciate his effort to bait the nerd boys and manga crowd while saving himself some salary cash, but still. The NEC in Allston gradually became my favorite for the awesome people who worked there. The one in Coolidge always had a Simpsons' Comic Book Guy vibe.
Anyway, since I doubt this guy's family is looking for the best comic book shop in town, I guess I should add something useful. My visiting family members always liked the Faneuil Hall/Quincy Market area, yes it's touristy but it's also good for walking around and chatting. The trolley tours are also silly and touristy but they're a good way to get a crash course in a relatively short amount of time, with included transportation so you're not stuck trying to navigate the T throughout the day. And probably a better idea than walking around in the painful cold we've been enjoying this week.
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So OP, what did you end up doing?
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I didn't see anything broken or not working when I was there (few months ago)
But now basically impossible to get tickets for weekend games, unfortunately.
really? I mostly go weeknights just because it's a good sort of thing to break up a week. Never really have issues getting tix ... helps that I know a few season ticketholders who hook me up sometimes ...
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Fine Dining
No 9 Park
L'Espalier
Eastern Standard
Hungry Mother
Mistral
Steakhouse/Fine Dining:
KO Prime
Ruth's Chris
Mooo
Abe & Louies
Mortons
Japanese
O Ya
Oishii
--- these two are in their own class
Fugakyu
Ginza (in chinatown they are open til 3:30am on weekends)
Bluefin (cheap but still pretty good)
Seafood
Oceanaire
Great Bay
Clio
Turner Fisheries
Thai
Thaitation (aka the old Brown Sugar in Fenway)
Brown Sugar
Mexican:
Tu Y Yo (real mexican, very good)
Casa Romero (again, no so tex-mexy)
Tapas:
Toro
Tasca
Quick Stuff
Spikes Junkyard Dogs
Anna's
Boca Grande
Chinatown has plenty of good vietnamese/chinese/etc places to eat. it's hard to go wrong by just picking one.
North End has plenty of good italian places to eat. it's hard to go wrong by just picking one.
If you like beer -
Sunset Bar + Grill is the mecca for beer drinkers in the Boston area.
Boston Beerworks is a decent local brewery/has ok food.
There. That's a better list.
Things to do? Catch a Celtics/Bruins/Sox game.
Museums - There are tons
Museum of Science
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
John F Kennedy Library & Museum
Fogg Art Museum
Museum of Bad Art
Museum of Fine Arts
Harvard Museum of Natural History
MIT Museum
Other things to see?
The Esplanade (walk along the Charles)
Christian Science Center (They have a giant reflecting pool that's filled in the non-freezing months)
The Waterfront near the Aquarium (and the Aquarium itself)
Go to the top of the Prudential for a view of the entire city
Visit Harvard/MIT/Northeastern/BU/BC/etc's Campus ... most have some cool buildings and nice spaces (this is better in non-winter months)
You can go see Blue Man Group and a ton of other performing arts events (plays/etc) down in the theater district
The Copley mall has a Sony Store and a bunch of high end retail stores
Fanieul hall is ok if you like overly touristy areas. As a local I avoid that area like the plague. The places to eat are pretty bad (aka the fake Cheers, etc. There is a McCormick + Schmicks there that isn't too bad)
I'll have to keep working on this, especially if PAX is coming to town
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Er. A number of the special exihibits are actually developed in part with MoS staff (LoTR/Star Wars). I used to work there ... there's a lot of cool stuff that goes on there beyond the old crusty exhibits. There are a lot of science education programs that go on, special events, and they have an area that they do daily presentations on science in the news.
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