First time in Boston
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What to do/see for people who like music, cinema, art and history?
Any secret awesome coffee shops, pizza places, etc.?
We're staying 4 days.
- akrok0
based on hollywood, robbing banks are popular there. :-)
- clam soup, a must. i heard.akrok
- chowda! say it. CHOWDA!monospaced
- hah.akrok
- mg330
Italian food in the north end.
I highly suggest Giacomo's in the North End:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/giacomos…I was there on business last summer (my mom also lived there when I was a kid for 6 years; I've seen and done everything worthwhile in New England twice probably) and ate there on the suggestion from a coworker. The food was excellent. Long long line - be prepared to wait about an hour but so worth it.
Be sure and grab pastries, cannoli, etc. from Mike's Pastry in the North End. They have Pistachio macaroons that will blow your mind. Notice all the people carrying little white boxes from Mikes? It's because everything in there is awesome.
- utopian0
My ex is from Boston, every time we went to Boston she made me drive to Revere Beach to Eat at Kelly's for Fried clams and Lobster Roll. She swears by it...
- mg330
I would kill for some fried clams right now.
- utopian0
Also Newbury Street is a must...
- dito0
Central Sq in Cambridge is good for music. Go to the middle east.
Harvard is good for a burger go to Mr. Dooleys
the boston public library has a pretty nice exhibit on travel posters of the early 20th century and its free.
- jetSkii0
I hear "The Social Network" was pretty good.
- stoplying0
Boston is pretty dope. For real. Although that fucking accent is like a rusty nail pounded into my ear canal. Keep it.
- Greedo0
Mike's Pastry is one of those self-perpetuating tourist traps. Real people go to Bova's, it's only a block or two away, but it may as well be on the moon in terms of tourist recognition.
http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/4/50…
You won't have to stand in line and carry your little douchebag box that immediately identifies you to the rest of Boston as someone from out of town.Also, go check out the new ICA by the waterfront. It's pretty nice, great location, and it'll soon be in a heavily developed area, so go see it while it still has some sort of an impact as a building by itself.
http://www.icaboston.org/
The MFA is opening their new wing in november, a norman foster-designed glass and steel cube that's supposed to be pretty nice:
http://www.mfa.org/
If you're down by the ICA, you can tour the Harpoon brewery:
http://www.harpoonbrewery.com/
Or go out to Jamaica Plain, have a Boiled Dinner at Doyle's, where Boston's mayors still have a political breakfast every month, and everyone from JFK to Clinton's been there. From there, you can take the drunk trolley to go tour the Sam Adams brewery:
http://boston.citysearch.com/pro…
http://www.samueladams.com/share…The brewery tours are free and they really tank you up a bit, so the rest of the day kind of glides by. You'll have to check on their sites when exactly the tours are. JP is kind of the Williamsburg of Boston, full of hipsters on fixies and pretty tattooed art school chicks, it's worth a visit.
Also, the legislature is out of session right now, so you can saunter up to the state house and visit that, it's pretty impressive on the inside. Go see the sacred cod:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sac…
But yea, newbury st, chinatown (see it before it's all skyscrapers), central/harvard sq in cambridge, middle east, what they said. Just no Bova's, ffs.
- Greedo0
http://thephoenix.com/boston/
local free paper, has all the listings. check out 'editor's picks' for some ideas.