Not For Tourists Guide to Boston 2016

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To Our Fellow Non-Tourists,

This book has every detail you need about the little City on the Hill, from how to catch a game of one of our World Champion teams (Bruins! Sox! Pats!) to where you can get the best pizza on the entire east coast (Santarpios!).

This book is not only a first-rate guidebook but also a love letter to this very unique and small city. The incredible people you see on the facing page have spent their time scouting out places in the nooks and crannies near and farfrom breakfast joints hidden in the backroom of convenience stores to the incredibly new and ritzy restaurants that now circle the Fort Point Channel; from hobnobbing and enjoying a libation at Top of the Hubs no-cover bar seats in the highest-point-in-the-Prudential-Buildings Jazz Lounge, to sidling up to talk philosophy at Harvard Squares basement bargain Grendels Den, where food is half price much of the time with a three-buck beverage buy-in. We know, we know, its a thankless job roaming around the city, making sure that every bar has fresh beer on tap, but somehow well survive.

If our fellow Non-Tourists will allow us, we want to send you to order a garlic and hot pepper pie in East Boston from Santarpios and to sit at the bar at The Ashmont Grill to chat up the bartenders. Weve got an extra ticket for the Sox game and were going to have to hit up the Baseball Tavern to make sure to celebrate the right way, before catching a concert at Green Monster-abutting Lansdowne Streets House of Blues chapter. Were going to go see the craziness at Jacques Cabaret and then pop into the Brattle Bookshop (downtowns Theatre District) to stock up for a quiet evening in, or take in a foreign flick at the landmark, art deco Coolidge Corner movie theatre and then browse in independent ink-on-paper icon Booksmith, across the street (Brookline). Put a whole group of crazy writers in your pocket, and youll always find the best spot for everything.

While youre at it, make sure to visit the website, and its Boston page specifically, for up-to-the-minute hotspots at www.notfortourists.com/Boston.aspx and download our iPhone App to cram even more crazy locals into your already full pockets.

Heres hoping you find what youre looking for,

Jane, Patrick, Scott, et al.

Table of Contents

Map 1 Beacon Hill / West End

Beacon Hill / West End

Map 1

Beacon Hill is still home to some of the most expensive real estate in America. Charming brick row houses reflect a long and storied history; where the State House stands, John Hancock once grazed cows. Full gentrification has yet to reach the West End, where government buildings, hospitals, and tucked-away burrito joints mingle fairly harmoniously.

Landmarks

Abiel Smith School 46 Joy St [Smith Ct]

Center of 19th-century African-American Boston.

Acorn Street b/w West Cedar St & Willow St, running parallel to Chestnut St

The most photographed street in America.

Boston Athenaeum

10 Beacon St [Somerset St]

617-227-0270

Old books, including one true crime account bound in the authors skin.

Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge

100 Beverly St [Causeway St]

Worlds widest cable-stayed bridge. Bostons newest landmark.

Longfellow Bridge

Cambridge St & Charles St

The salt and pepper shaker bridge.

Louisburg Square

Mt Vernon St & Pinckney St

Charming square with elegant homes, including John Kerrys.

Make Way for Ducklings

Beacon St & Charles St

Inspired by the Robert McCloskey childrens book.

Massachusetts General Hospital

55 Fruit St [N Grove St]

617-726-2000

The Ether dome, site of the first use of ether; contains an antique surgical museum.

TD Garden 150 Causeway St [Beverly St]

617-624-1050

Looking for the FleetCenter? This is it. Used to be historic Boston Garden.

Vilna Shul 18 Phillips St [Garden St]

617-523-2324

Recently revived Beacon Hill synagogue.

Nightlife

21st Amendment

150 Bowdoin St [Mt Vernon St]

617-227-7100

Favorite of the State House crowd.

6B Lounge 6 Beacon St [Tremont Pl]

617-742-0306

Martinis and snacks for the after-work crowd.

Alibi 215 Charles St [Fruit St]

857-241-1144

How many restaurants/bars are IN the Liberty Hotel? Sweet lord.

Beacon Hill Pub 149 Charles St [Silver Pl]

Dive popular with young Hill residents.

Cheers 84 Beacon St [Brimmer St]

617-227-9605

If you must.

The Fours 166 Canal St [Causeway St]

617-720-4455

Sports tavern across from the Garden.