What I love about Boston

Oh, that one. It's a great urban place, but it isn't a farmer's market. Most of the fruits and vegetables sold there aren't grown locally.
 
czsz said:
What about the fish?
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Right. I have nothing against farmers markets, but why is nobody pushing a local fish market?

And yes, they catch fish all year long.
 
Can you still buy them at the Fish Pier?
 
Ron Newman said:
Oh, that one. It's a great urban place, but it isn't a farmer's market. Most of the fruits and vegetables sold there aren't grown locally.
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Well I still like the idea of being able to get a weeks worth of fruit & vegetables (and fish - maybe,) for less than 15$
 
Sure. I just wanted to identify it properly. Boston also has many farmers' markets, some in the downtown area, but they are very different from Haymarket.
 
As much as people here badmouth the T, after a weekend of doing nothing but navigating the service changes on the subway in Brooklyn, the surety of and open seats on the Red Line are quite a relief.
 
I like the weather, more so in the summer but it's nice that Boston has all the seasons.
 
I had a friend who moved here from Buffalo. Weatherwise, he thought he had died and gone to Miami.
 
^ I originally moved here from Buffalo. It's true. I ate outside today.
 
I love the panini sandwiches at the Winchester Hospital coffee bar. The sandwich of the day (the other day) was turkey with eggplant and some wonderfully smelly cheese. It was very good with macaroni salad for about $5.

Such a deal...
 
bdurden said:
I love Pino's in Cleveland Circle.
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WHAT? BLASPHEMY! Presto's all the way!!

...haha, just kidding. I've been a Pino's guy my whole life. Man...this reminds me how awful the pizza is out West.
 
Pho Republique, Acquitaine, Hammersley's Bistro, Delux Cafe, The Butchery. Who says dining in Boston is dull?
Jacob Wirth's 110th anniversary party when prices were rolled back to 1868 levels. I remember the first $1.20 I spent on dark beer; the rest is (and was) lost. (Beer in 1868 sold for 5 cents a draft.)
A window seat at the Taj (ex-Ritz) bar. It is a piece of uptown Manhattan that the "new" Ritz can't touch. Ask for the Planter's Punch.
The roof top dancing there when it was the Ritz. At the former Bay Tower room too. If you couldn't score after a night at those places, you just weren't trying.
Peretti's Tobacconist at Boylston and Charles. So politically incorrect; so perfect.
Biltmore Green Luggage next door: be sure to haggle.
Lunch at the white table cloth restaurant that Sebastian's manages at the courtyard in the BPL. Classy ambiance, cheap prices.
Italian Car Day at the Larz Andersen Museum.
The Artists Ball at the Cyclorama Building: do they still hold it?
The "General Hooker Entrance" at the front of the State House. Do the "Specialists" use the back door?
 
The interior of King's Chapel and its Prayer Book. You could be in a post Great Fire London church. Thomas Cranmer (one of the great artists of the English language) would feel very at home with the style of the charmingly archaic Prayer Book, perhaps more so than if he were sitting in...
The interiors of Trinity Church and Church of the Advent. What great spaces. Trinity is fit for a coronation ceremony. Good Friday afternoon service there, which is kind of a rolling thing, has a warm feeling with people of all walks of life singing together. Smells and bells ("High Mass") at Advent is wonderfully medieval, although the thick incense kind of gets me sick after a while. Designed to drive away the wicked, perhaps.
 
^ All great spaces to be sure! On the Modern side, Saarinen's MIT Chapel, and Safdie's copy-cat cousin at the Harvard Business School.
 
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