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You gotta love how certain bloggers can respond to a thread but then shutdown the thread from others to respond to their opinion. Nice... Archboston has censorship based on only one groups point of view.
 
Random query.

I have a friend of a fried coming in from Chicago this summer and looking for a one night stay in a hotel but are pretty much priced out of Boston.

They are asking about suburban hotels that still provide easy access to Boston but have lower than in-town rates. I figured this would be easy, but honestly I'm coming up blank. I know some of you guys either travel a lot or are just in the know, so I thought I would throw it out there. I don't have and dates or budget, just cheaper than/with access to Boston. Thanks.
 
statler said:
Random query.

I have a friend of a fried coming in from Chicago this summer and looking for a one night stay in a hotel but are pretty much priced out of Boston.

They are asking about suburban hotels that still provide easy access to Boston but have lower than in-town rates. I figured this would be easy, but honestly I'm coming up blank. I know some of you guys either travel a lot or are just in the know, so I thought I would throw it out there. I don't have and dates or budget, just cheaper than/with access to Boston. Thanks.
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Assuming they are looking for a semi-nice hotel? (otherwise just do an AirBnB in medford/malden or something).

For the former, here's one: the Hotel Indigo right near the Riverside T station:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/H...40c878a4e20c8a!8m2!3d42.3339602!4d-71.2544191
 
I think that's the idea. Unfortunately I'm getting the request third hand so it's tough getting more info. Thanks!
 
Lrfox said:
Have you stayed there?
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I haven't (I live less than three miles away), but have spent many ours at family gatherings in the dining room. The proprietor, who's become something of a family friend, began his career with a pizza shop in Winthrop Center; he purchased and began restoring the restaurant and hotel in the early 80s. It's very old-timey New England resort-ish. Part of me wishes that they reduce the dinner menu and move toward seasonal farm-to-table offerings.
 
Yeah, I was curious about John's "HER?" response. Maybe I was reading to much into it.
 
It's a John comment so who the hell knows, but if you interpret "maybe her" as a truncated sentence with "can help," I think the grammatically correct response would have been "maybe she?"
 
Beton Brut said:
I haven't (I live less than three miles away), but have spent many ours at family gatherings in the dining room. The proprietor, who's become something of a family friend, began his career with a pizza shop in Winthrop Center; he purchased and began restoring the restaurant and hotel in the early 80s. It's very old-timey New England resort-ish. Part of me wishes that they reduce the dinner menu and move toward seasonal farm-to-table offerings.
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The owner’s son has taken over day-to-day restaurant operations in the last year and has been steadily making tweaks to hopefully make the place a bit more appealing to a younger crowd (think mid 30s/early 40s) while retaining their more steady older clientele. I can’t speak to the farm to table aspect, but he has greatly streamlined the menu and improved the quality of what they serve. The steak tips and pot pie are both awesome.

At the same time, the dining room is still quaint as hell and the new bar/lounge area is a great place to hang out for drinks and socialize.
 
^ Thanks for the tip. I haven’t been in a couple of years, but my dad, in his 80s is a frequent flyer, a big fan of the rightfully famous pot pie. I’m glad to hear the Arms is evolving; I’d be sad to see it go the way of the classic North Shore haunts of my childhood, the General Glover, Anthony’s Hawthorn by the Sea, and the Continental.
 
jdrinboston said:
The owner’s son has taken over day-to-day restaurant operations in the last year and has been steadily making tweaks to hopefully make the place a bit more appealing to a younger crowd (think mid 30s/early 40s) while retaining their more steady older clientele. I can’t speak to the farm to table aspect, but he has greatly streamlined the menu and improved the quality of what they serve. The steak tips and pot pie are both awesome.

At the same time, the dining room is still quaint as hell and the new bar/lounge area is a great place to hang out for drinks and socialize.
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So is the dinner menu on the website current? If this is streamlined I'm afraid of the cheesecakefactoryesque fever dream that must have preceded it. (If this is the old menu, someone please suggest they update the website.) I love the look of this place, and the idea of old-school casual steakhouse fare seems fitting, but the "meat disclaimer" on the menu would probably be enough to keep me away.
 
Justin7 said:
So is the dinner menu on the website current? If this is streamlined I'm afraid of the cheesecakefactoryesque fever dream that must have preceded it. (If this is the old menu, someone please suggest they update the website.) I love the look of this place, and the idea of old-school casual steakhouse fare seems fitting, but the "meat disclaimer" on the menu would probably be enough to keep me away.
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Is this the menu you were looking at? I pulled it off their mobile Website.

http://www.winthroparms.com/Admin/Documents/Dinner.pdf

Their old menu used to be about as large as a Robert Caro biography.
 
Of Neighborhood Rebranding Efforts: https://archive.org/stream/downtowncrossing00simm#page/n11/mode/2up

It's an interesting read. It's a Simmons Senior Seminar project from 1979 that talks about the efforts to "revitalize the CBD." Specifically, it gets into the process of creating a new identity for the area for marketing purposes. Interesting to note, that before the BRA settled on "Downtown Crossing" in 1977, names like "Downtown Freedom Mall" and "Downtown Promenade" were tossed around. I like what we ended up with.

As someone who was born nearly a decade after the Downtown Crossing branding effort, I find it fascinating. Especially when we discuss other branding efforts (ehem, "Uptown."). To me, it's always been Downtown Crossing. I imagine that makes the effort a success.
 
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