visiting BOSTON

If you're looking for the drunk, it speaks truth. I second the Inman Square suggestion...Bukowskis is cool and the Zietgeist usually has something at least vaguely good going on.

If you're gonna do mushrooms, I'd go for the Arboretum and not Harvard, personally. Or the swan boats!

http://www.mountauburn.org/

find the tower and climb to the top.

Planet Records in Kenmore Square
Nuggets in Kenmore Square and Coolidge Corner
Second Coming (halfway between Central and Harvard Squares)
Looney Toones (2 spots-near Berklee and near Central Square), Cheapos in Central Square (this and twisted are my top picks)
CD Spins (upper Newbury Street) decent.
Mystery Train (Harvard Square)
In Your Ear (Comm Ave in Allston)
Stereo Jack's (midway between Porter and Harvard
Squares on Mass Ave), which specializes in jazz and blues
20% off sales at the Harvard Coop.

scorpion bowl at Honk Kongs on Mass Ave/cambridge. full of booze!

Haha, in 1998/1999 I used to work for IBM in the Lotus building, and did most of my classes in the Media Lab and Sloan buildings, and had 6 of my friends working at a startup in the same building at the Marriott (curl). I think I *lived* in Kendall those 2 years. It has Rebecca's Cafe, and Quantum books! But I'm a big geek, I didn't really care that it was probably the most boring corner of Cambridge, I was walking around with problem sets and work coming out of my ears.

I have this great memory of walking down Amherst St at about 3 AM with my little sister and my best friend, barefoot in Feb or March- we'd gone out wearing heels, and they were hurting all our feet, so we took them off. The pavement was so freezing it actually felt good on our feet. There was no one around at that hour, so we were just walking down the center of the road, in fancy black-tie clothes, carrying our dress shoes.

Twisted Village/Diskovery seconded; there's also the new undergroundhiphop.com store on Huntington near Northeastern and a bunch of random hip-hop/reggaeton stores in the outer neighborhoods - Franklin's CDs in Jamaica Plain and Vibes in Dorchester are shockingly great for their size.

If you're in Allston, you can eat well for cheap practically anywhere - Grasshopper (vegan pan-Asian), Rangoli (great cheap Indian), Spike's (hot dogs), that Lebanese place I can't remember the name of, the Super 88 Asian food court, all those Brazilian BBQs. In JP I can't say enough about La Pupusa Guanaca in Hyde Square; the Cuban restaurant a block away from it was truly exemplary until it was firebombed a couple of months ago. Lately I've been eating a lot of tacos - at the venerable El Pelon in the Fenway, but also Tacos Lupita in Somerville (which might actually be the best taqueria in town).

Grab a copy of the Phoenix or Dig when you're here and check out the nightlife listings - the Enormous Room and Middlesex are better-than-average clubs in Cambridge, with none of the Lansdowne riff-raff and really good DJs (including sometime-ILXoR Er1k Pe4rson on Fridays at Enormous). River Gods tends to be packed to the point of suffocation on weekends lately.

Friend got me a ticket to the Yankees v. Sox in late August. Probably arrive Thursday and leave Monday. I know nothing about the city.

Priceline's areas around Fenway are "Cambridge" and "Copley Square - Theater District" - best shots for staying somewhere that's good for wandering around?

Ha - what a game to go to! Copley Sqaure and the Theater District are both good for wandering around. Cambridge is great but not really that close to Fenway. What hotels are they recommending specifically? I might know something about them.

Boston -- Classic or Dirty Water?

Gonna be there for work next week.

welcome in advance!

I wish the Red Sox would be in town, but they're gonna be in Baltimore. I need to check the Boston threads for restaurant suggestions.

where u staying? what u like to eat?

Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers, 50 Park Plaza at Arlington Street,

Pretty flexible food-wise--- Asian(Chinese, Japanese, Thai,Indian, elsewhere), Ethiopian, Mexican, Afghan, American seafood ...

cool--

chinese - chau chow city in chinatown (steve shasta approved!)

afghan - i've never been to the helmand in east cambridge (owned by hamid karzai's bro!) but my buddy has and he liked it

there are a couple of ethiopian places but i don't know what's up with them.

there's a new senegalese restaurant called teranga that looks pretty cool and it's not far from where you're staying. you're also pretty close to b&g oysters which is pricey but i've had a v. nice time there.

I need to check the Boston threads for restaurant suggestions.

main thread we've been using lately is this one: Boston -- Classic or Dirty Water?

I like this thread more, and have been finding it useful in preparing for my forthcoming trip - to Boston.

ooh, when?

arriving - tomorrow. I am my beloved's plus one at a spelling bee for grown ups.

although I am hoping that due to some mix up she will be competing against ten year olds.

WELCOME!!!

haha awesome

we have Wagamama now, it's only a couple of steps until we teleport into the UK

ho ho, next thing you will have bars where you don't need to tip.

If there is anything amazing happening in Boston over the next few days, let me know. I am kind of tempted by either Fiery Furnaces or Holly Golightly on Saturday, but we will probably just stuff our faces in the North End or something.

hmm, by Saturday I'm going to be off in the woods getting shitfaced, so I dunno what's going on this weekend

it turned out that I just spent my time eating food. Nom nom nom.

My beloved's team came second in the spelling bee, after failing to correctly spell "tatterdemalion".

hmm, by Saturday I'm going to be off in the woods getting shitfaced, so I dunno what's going on this weekend

― Dreaded Burrito Gang (DJP), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 19:11 (1 week ago)

so bears /do/ shit in the woods

brunch recs in Cambridge? I am somewhere between porter and harvard.

help me boston

The S&S in Inman Square!!

http://www.sandsrestaurant.com/

today? i really enjoyed the sunday brunch at the blue room in kendall sq. when i was there at the start of the year

http://www.theblueroom.net/menus/brunch/

caveats i. obviously if you mean today and not sunday this is of little help ii. i am british

enbb otm

and hi iatee, welcome to my hood

Oh, and my previous post should read "it really is just what I said"

i won't mention Bill Buckner's name, thx

trophy room:

https://trophyroomboston.com/about-us/

i do remember when that place was Fritz!

i am tied up on saturday; sorry to miss u!

What time will you be arriving on Saturday — and how are you getting here?

Taking the bus, arriving Friday eve, at a baseball seminar at BU 9-5 on Sat & Sun. Gone Sun at 6.

Trophy Room is the kinda gay sports bar where i'm the only one watching da sports. Cathedral Station had Pirates-Cards and Brewers-Rockies on when i walked in, more credible. Anyway, i stomped around the Back Bay and South End til i got tired (around 9:30 on Sat night; i always sleep badly in hotels).

What is with all the Boston ppl wearing UnderArmour-branded stuff? way more than in NYC.

Is Jamaica Plain worth spending an afternoon in? Or should I do Cambridge or Somerville? Or somewhere else easily accessible by metro?

depends what you're looking for but Cambridge has the most Stuff in it out of those three. JP and somerville are mostly just places people live, with some pockets of good food

I was surprised at how much was going on in Davis Square, Somerville last time I was there.

davis is great but its mostly just food & a independent movie theater

i don't get over there much but i think it'd be easy to kill an afternoon in jp. if it's nice out you can go check out the pond and whatnot for a changeup from the city.

jp rules, we lived close by in west rox for 5 years. a walk around the pond then a bite to eat on centre st was one of our favorite things to do. lots of good food on centre just east of the pond and also further up past the whole foods. ethiopian, cuban, indian, tapas, mexican.

beautiful Victorians and other old houses and triple deckers throughout, walking around there is so nice, wander into the arboretum if you there on a nice day

Cambridge has the most happening tho yea

Does Boston have Chinatown or other Asian neighborhoods?

yea it has a p cool Chinatown with lots of good food, nothing like nyc or sf of course but i remember it being way more actual Chinese and Asian places than say, DC’s Chinatown

my boyf livese in Malden and every time I go visit we just kinda hang out in Malden and sooooometimes Boston proper, but rarely anywhere else. I've been to Cambridge a few times and it's cute, I THINK I've been to Somerville but I'm not certain, and I've def never been to JP.

We're also thinking abt day tripping to Salem?

xp Boston's Chinatown was p impressive and is def an above-average Chinatown imo

IIRC DC's Chinatown is just a big arch and then tons of regular-ass retail chains and does not feel remotely enclavey or distinct from its surroundings

salem is an enjoyable day trip, definitely would recommend. the peabody essex museum is the best small art museum in new england.

The more I read about Salem the more awesome it sounds, but if we went we'd have to leave by 4 or so so I think we're gonna go another time when we can stay later (or even maybe do an overnight trip)

so back to either JP or Cambridge

xp re DC, yea for sure. it felt like a real if somewhat small Chinatown when I first moved to DC in 2002 but by the time i left in 2008 it had completely transformed

my boyf livese in Malden and every time I go visit we just kinda hang out in Malden and sooooometimes Boston proper, but rarely anywhere else

lol steve replace "malden" with "medford" (which, close enough) and you basically have my long distance relationship from 2015

it's weird, Boston is so weird

it’s very weird

Are there any Boston ilxors by chance?? I’m visiting family in Norwell but very very much want to go see Kraftwerk on Saturday, would love to hang with someone

Boston :-(

maura lives in boston!

Unlike NYC, it’s one of those places where if a friend moves there, I assume I will never see them as long as they’re there. All of the hegemony, none of the charm.