First time in Boston
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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.