Not For Tourists - Not For Tourists Guide to Boston 2019

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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.

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.
617-523-1895

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.

The Greatest Bar
262 Friend St [Causeway St]
617-367-0544
Big deal.

The Harp 85 Causeway St [Portland St]
617-742-1010
Pack in after an evening at the Garden.

The Hill Tavern 228 Cambridge St [Irving St]
617-742-6192
Middling Beacon Hill hangout.

The Sevens 77 Charles St [Mt Vernon St]
617-523-9074
Sturdy Beacon Hill local.

Sullivans Tap 168 Canal St [Causeway St]
617-742-6968
Dive. Proper before Celtics and Bruins games.

Restaurants

75 Chestnut 75 Chestnut St [River St]
617-227-2175 $$$$
Featuring a Sunday jazz brunch.

Artu 89 Charles St [Pinckney St]
617-227-9023 $$$
Affordable Italian. Fresh ingredients. Take-out panini.