somertimeoh
Harrison West
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I'm going to Boston for the first time in 2 weeks and am looking for helpful hints, good places to eat, and your favorite spots to visit.
We will have a 1/2 day on Wednesday with a concert that night (The Faint, swooon!!!) and then as long as we want the next day before continuing on with the vacay.
Thanks in advance!!
th0m
Beechwold
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for me it was always pretty much mass ave between mit and harvard, always on the subway then into downtown. love downtown. keep a map handy of those streets downtown, kind of confusing. i'm sure others will have more specific recommendations, but in short, just from those two places, i wanna see more, and go back soon.
somertimeoh
Harrison West
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You should come with us!! :)
neela
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I like food... so I'll keep my suggestions focused on that.
Mexican - you can get good authentic cheap Mexican, I think around East Cambridge/Sommerville
Jamaica Plain is a cool area - and there's some good Caribbean food there (Jamaican, Puerto Rican I think). I think Sam Adams still offers tours of their brewery there.
Puerto Rican - a place called Izzy's a 10 minute walk from Central Sq. Hole in the wall, great food.
Burgers - Hahvahd Sq has a good place, all of them are named for different people. I'm not into burgers tho.
The Pourhouse - on Boylston near Mass Ave. They actually have a really good brunch.
Vietnamese - Pho Pasteur is pretty good, although the last few times I've been it's been a little uneven. Not bad, just not as stellar as I remember it being. They have 1 in Hahvahd Sq and 1 by Chinatown, maybe others.
If you like Dim Sum definitely go to Chinatown for that, I can't remember the names but there was always 2 places with huge lines.
JP Licks and Toscanini's are local ice cream chains. Not as good as Jeni's IMO, but good stuff.
North End - Italian, all kinds of places. Definitely go to Mike's Pastries for dessert.
Newberry Street is good for people watching, and there are good (but mostly expensive) restaurants.
if you are into a particular cuisine Boston is big enough to have it, although it may not be great.
desecration
Harrison West
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Johnny Cupcakes
somertimeoh
Harrison West
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dru wrote somer, if you want something authentic, i'd hit up this place:
Heehee, I <3 you :lol:
When are we going? Did you ever eat there in Dallas? It will be a pit stop when I'm homesick for sure.
Sooooo Boston...thanks for the tips guys!! Sounds like Newberry street is definitely a place to check out. I'm super excited.
Bear
The woods
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It's hard to know where to start without knowing what you like. My favorite spot in the city is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum -- and I am not, repeat not, a museum person. It's not so much a museum as an ambience to be savored. Red Sox games are a wonderful experience but cost an arm and a leg; tours of Fenway, on the other hand, are fascinating and relatively inexpensive ($10 I think).
Great places to eat include Upstairs on the Square at Harvard Square, Oleana in Cambridge, Hamersley's Bistro and Sel de la Terre in Boston, Mamma Maria in the North End, and for a budget choice Anna's Taqueria and Boca Grande all over the place (run by two allegedly estranged sisters whose rivalry provides some of the best and cheapest Mexican food in the known universe). If you like cheese, no trip is complete without a visit to Formaggio Kitchen in Cambridge -- not the South End one, the original.
Duck-boat tours are tourist-y but fun and worth doing. Newbury Street has great shopping (including Johnny Cupcakes, a favorite of mine!!), as well as the two big indoor malls beneath the Prudential Center.
Beyond that... what's your pleasure?
somertimeoh
Harrison West
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Travel partner is a foodie, I'm a drunk, so I assume bars and restaurants will be the highlight :) He's from the area, but that will probably only make picking these things out worse. Here's how the usual dinner conversations go:
Me: What do you want for dinner?
Him: I don't know. Whatever.
Me: Well, What sounds good to you? Anything?
Him: Oh, ummm, whatever you wat, I'll eat anything.
Me: Suggestion 1
Him: Ehhhh, not really in the mood for Suggestion 1.
Me: Suggestion 2
Him: I don't know, do you think it will be to crowded?
Me: OHMYGAWD, you either decide or I'm going to taco truck and you can eat whatever you want.
Him: Oh, taco truck sounds good.
Me: Jesus
My point, I would like to avoid this and just have a few places to eat/drink and things few things to do already in mind so that there's not this overwhleming decicison that has to be made every few hours for 2 days straight :)
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