Where is the best food in Boston found? And what is there to do for someone visiting?

Question

I am planning a vacation to Boston. I was just wondering what are the best resturaunts to eat at and what type of food you can find there. Also I know some of the basic things to do but I am not really sure what is all there. Then there is the question of the best time to visit Boston. So if someone could please help me out i would really appreciate it! :) Thanks!

Answer 1

I presume you are referring to the 'Boston' in Massachusetts.

Try this place:

No Name Restaurant
[phone]
15 1/2 Fish Pier St W
Boston, MA 02210



www.noam.com...

Answer 2

We travelled to boston from california last summer and had a blast.

my favorite thing was going to the top of the prudential building and getting the little hand held device that tells you everything you are looking at out of the huge windows. This is a MUST DO!!!

Also, take a duck tour. You can see and learn a lot on that.
That was fun.

We took in a Red Sox / Yankees game (entire reason for visiting Boston!) and that was, of course great. Except the sox lost.....

Go to Boston Beerworks for lunch. It might be called Boston Brewworks but it's right outside the stadium and has good food, good atmosphere, etc. If you don't have tix to a game, just go there and it's the next best thing.

The BELL IN HAND TAVERN is the oldest tavern in the USA. Go by and get a beer. It's on the coolest little cobblestone street!

The children's science museum is FABULOUS if you have several hours to go through it. I took our kids to it while my husband scalped a ticket to another baseball game one day.

Legal Seafoods is supposedly GREAT for seafood. I don't care for fish or seafood but my husband said it was the best he's ever had. There are a couple locations I do believe, but we went to the one in a Mall downtown right at a Marriot hotel and it's near the Prudential Building.

You must check out Faneuil Hall (sp) as well as Boston Common. Cheers is cool too. The real one, not the one at Faneuil Hall. I love the street it's on. So charming.

We went in August and the weather was perfect but I hear it can get rather humid. We were expecting it to be but it was actually just perfect. Maybe we lucked out.

Have a WONDERFUL time! We loved it so much.

Answer 3

Summer or Fall are the best times of the year to come to Boston, I think. This is a very walkable city, especially in the good weather. Everything is close by - whether you catch a game at Fenway or head to the waterfront or Faneuil Hall, you can get their by walking or public transportation.

For dining - there's lots of great choices:
Chinese - New Shanghai in Chinatown. Excellent seafood and noodle dishes
Sushi - Oishii Sushi in the South End (on Washington St). Expensive, but some of the best and most interesting sushi in the area.
Italian - loads of places in the North End. Some of my favorites are Rabia's on Salem St and Ricardo's on North Street. Head to Cafe Vittoria for dessert and capucino's, and if you want to take pastry home, go to Modern Pastry rather than Mike's.
If you want Italian w/out heading to the North End, The Grotto on Bodoin St is one of my favorites. They offer Price Fixe menus that are definitely worth checking out.
Steak House - Grill 23 in the Back Bay. Another pricey place, but it's the place for steak.
Tapas - Tapeo is a fun place to go - it's on Newbury St and has excellent tapas and some really fun people watching from their little patio

Have fun!

Answer 4

Boston in no longer a 'working port', so the seafood has gone downhill over the years.

The 'no name restaraunt', Jimbos, the Barking Crab, and the Union Oyster House, are probably the only trustworthy seafood restaraunts still existing.

The 'North End' has tremendous Italian restaraunts.

Chinatown has some very good Chinese restaraunts.

You might want to check out: Lokobers and Jacob Wirths, both are German restaraunts in downtown Boston.

Answer 5

For heavans' sakes!!!! Boston is an international city and as such full of great restaurants.

As for suggestions from prior Answerers:
Union Oyster House is famous but quite ordinary and overpriced for it's food.

The Boston Beer Works is indeed among the country's best brew-pubs both for drink (it has an excellent wine list, too) and food.
There are two of them: one right across the street from Fenway Park and the second on Canal Street near North Station. There is a third incarnation named Salem Beer Works in that city should you visit there to go with-hunting. And some of the the same management owns The Sunset Pub and Grill, in Allston, surely one of the USA's most incredible beer places. Very noisy, the food is good for pub fare, and the beer list offers almost 300 choices.

Legal's is famous and very good.

I believe it is Durgin-Park, not Union Oyster House, that is Boston's oldest, and Durgin-Park is better (and more fun). It is at North Market, Fanueil Hall.

The "World's Best Pizza" is actually "Haymarket Pizza" and located there, not at Fanueil Hall (the two locations are close) and yes it should be visited. It is like a shed! And - yes - large, LARGE Sicilan pies are only $ 5.00 still and LARGE slices only $ 1.

But in my view still the best dining experience in Boston is Boston's greatest (and one of the most expensive) old restaurant: Locke-Ober. Located on Winter Place, in the downtown shopping district.

FYI: the VERY best (by far) of Boston's restaurant critics is Robert Nadeau of the "Boston Phoenix". Check out the Phoenix`s web site or grab an issue (it is a weekly) when you arrive and use it as your primary culinary guide. Each issue has summary reviews of columns from the past year.

Have a nice trip.

Answer 6

Boston is known for it's seafood primarily, of course clam chowder. There are many great restaurants, all the ethnic varieties are represented. Go to chowhound.com's Boston board for recommendations from local foodies.

For a tourist I'd recommend having some chowder at Legal Seafood (it's an up scale chain restaurant, they make a good clam chowder).

I would go to the North End (Hanover Street) and wait in line at one of the many fine Italian restaurants. Go to Modern Pastry and get a coffee and cannoli (also on Hanover Street), Modern is better than Mike's, don't let the lines fool you.

Have a lobster roll, get some fried clams (full belly clams). Have some of the locally made ice cream - suggest going to Kimball Farm in Westford.

Of course Boston is all about history. Walk the Freedom Trail, go on old Ironsides, go to Lexington, MA to the Minuteman Park, go to Faneuil Hall.

For New Englandishy stuff - head out to Rockport on Rt128 to the seaport area (this is where you want to get your clams),

Go through Marblehead on your way to Rockport, beautiful bedroom community full of 100+ year old seaside homes. Take Rt 127 to Gloucester (where the fishing crew from the "Perfect Storm" fame was out of).

Go to Salem for the witch trial history. (Best in October).

Go to Fenway Park.

Go park ya cah in Havahd Yahd.

Go the Kennedy Presidential Library

Take a Duck Tour

Go to the "Cheers" bar on Beacon Street.

Lots to do.......

Answer 7

We went to the oldest operating restaurant while in Boston. It is called the Union Oyster House. It is a little expensive (depending on what you order) so take about $30-$50 for yourself. We got away with 2 for about $70, and my friend had lobster (expensive!). We took a taxi over there. It was the best way. Parking in that part of town wasn't good.

It's been in operation since 1828 (if I remember) and it's just neat. :)

Also consider making the 1/2 hour trek north to Salem, MA. It's really worth it. It's not just about witches, there is a PIRATE museum too! :)

Good luck! :)

Answer 8

Border's in Harvard Square delicious and cheap mexican food.. Also try Faniuel Hall tons of little restaurants with great food...There's a pizza place in the haymarket as well called "Worlds Best Pizza" i believe it is run down but the pizza is par none and a whole pie will only cost you about 5 bucks.

Answer 9

Wow, someone mentioned the Bell in Hand Tavern. I love that place, best little pub to hang out and watch a game. Ice cold Bass ale to boot. Brings back some great memories.

Answer 10

any place in the north end.If you do go to the north end go to mikes pastry shop too. yuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmm. places to see are fan.hall,the aquarium,the old north church, so many places to see i can't name them all but once you are there very easy to find things to do !!!