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Tips
Suggested Evening Itineraries
If you're traveling as a family, you may be checking the TV listings for your
evening itineraries. If not—or if you had the foresight to book a sitter—
here are some suggestions. See chapter 6 for restaurant reviews and chap-
ter 10 for nightlife listings.
• Dinner in the North End, and coffee and dessert at a
caffè.
Afterward, a
show at the Comedy Connection at Faneuil Hall or the Improv Asylum,
and a drink at the Cheers bar in Quincy Market.
• Dinner at Legal Sea Foods in the Prudential Center, followed (or pre-
ceded) by a visit to the 50th-floor Prudential Center Skywalk or a drink in
the lounge at Top of the Hub, on the 52nd floor. If heights aren't your
thing, lift a glass at the Oak Bar in the Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel.
• Summer only: Assemble a picnic and head to the Hatch Shell for music or
a movie, or to Boston Common for a play or concert.
• Winter only: A Boston Symphony Orchestra or Boston Ballet perform-
ance, then late supper at Brasserie Jo or dessert at Finale.
• Dinner at Sel de la Terre or the State Street Legal Sea Foods, then a stroll
along the harbor. Hit the North End or the food court at Faneuil Hall Mar-
ketplace for dessert.
• Dinner at Brasserie Jo, then a Huntington Theatre Company performance
or music at Wally's Café.
• Dinner at Jasper White's Summer Shack, a stroll on Newbury Street, and
a nightcap at the Bristol in the Four Seasons Hotel.
• Shopping at the Coop or the Harvard Book Store, then dinner at Mr. Bart-
ley's Burger Cottage. Contemplate Harvard Yard from the Widener
Library steps, and finish up with ice cream at Toscanini's, Herrell's, or
Lizzy's or a show at Club Passim (or both).
• Dinner at Oleana or the East Coast Grill, followed by music at Scullers
Jazz Club, the Regattabar, or Ryles Jazz Club.
• Dinner at Baraka Café, ice cream at Toscanini's, and music at the Middle
East or T. T. the Bear's Place.
• A movie at the Kendall Square Cinema before or after dinner at the Blue
Room, then music at the Cantab Lounge.
• Dinner at Redbones or Tu y Yo Mexican Fonda, and a show at Johnny D's
or the Somerville Theater.
4 The Best of Boston in 3 Days
You can easily extend the suggestions for the first 2 days to fill a third—for instance,
your Museum of Fine Arts admission is good for another visit within 10 days, and you
haven't actually completed the Freedom Trail—but you'll probably want to branch
out. Today you head for Cambridge, Dorchester, or both. This itinerary may look a