Posts Tagged "Music"

Best of Boston

Posted on Jun 26, 2011 | 7 comments

Boston is truly an amazing city filled with great restaurants, unique bars, and beautiful sights…

Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you the my Best of Boston! I apologize that I don’t have links to all of the recommendations – I visited some of these places before I started blogging.

Obviously, most of my categories are food related, starting with the best…

Places to Eat Pizza

• The Pizza and Ice Cream Company (PICCO)
• Coppa
• Penguin Pizza

Places for a Cocktail

• The Liberty Hotel
• Top of Hub

Places to Drink Beer

• The Mission
• Meadhall
• Cambridge Common
• Publick House

Upscale Restaurants

• Oleana
• Son-sie
• Post 390
• Masa

Casual Restaurants

• Grafton St. Pub
• The Otherside Cafe (vegan and vegetarian friendly)
• Parish Cafe
• Amrheins (you MUST get the pumpkin risotto in the fall!!!)

Patios

• The Intercontinental Hotel
• Hamersley’s Bistro
• Cambridge Brewing Co.
• The Rattlesnake roof deck
• Tavern on the Water

Mexican Food

• The Border Cafe (get the crawfish quesadillas)
• Lolita

Places to Eat Dessert

• Mike’s Pastry
• Top of Hub (cookie sampler)
• Max Brenner (‘the works’ dessert pizza)

Places for Live Music

• The Beehive – make a late reservation for a seat in “the pit” and you’ll most likely hear a funky jazz band
• The Burren – I’ve only been here once and the live music was great (much more alternative then the typical stuff at the Faneuill Hall bars below)
• Faneuil Hall Bars – a bunch of them actually have fun live/dancing bands, but be prepared for lines. I’ve liked bands at the Bell in Hand, Hennessey’s, and Ned Divine’s

Burger

• Russell House Tavern
• Boston Burger Company (get the caramel sweet potato fries too!)

Ethnic Food

• Mela
• Addis Red Sea
• Myers + Chang
• Toro
• Teranga

Things To Do

  

• Have a picnic on the Esplanade
• Visit the Museum of Fine Arts
• Visit Boston’s breweries (Harpoon and Sam Adams; Harpoon has a more generous tasting)
• Tour an old house in the Back Bay
• Take the MBTA ferry over to Charlestown and see the USS Constitution and grab a beer at Tavern on the Water

Myers + Chang + Meat

Posted on Nov 21, 2010 | 4 comments

I can finally cross Myers + Chang off my list, although I’m already excited to go back. The food was even more delicious and unique than I had heard!

These kitties welcomed us into the restaurant with their mechanical paws.

Mmmm…red wine. The Côtes du Rhône was bold and spicy, just how I like ‘em.

Holy Cow

Posted on Oct 8, 2010 | 5 comments

Howdy from the plane! Ten years ago, who would have thought that I could capture a digital image while flying through the air, blog about it, and display the imagine on a site that can be accessed by any person on the internet? Did I mention that while all this is going on, I’m also watching a personal movie about Tina Fey having a baby through a surrogate mother? Oh, technology.

Fashion Friday anyone?

  

  

Oh, La

Posted on Oct 2, 2010 | 4 comments

Anyone have an exciting Friday? I started mine with another brew from our Just Beer collection…

The Moby D doesn’t have huge flavor but it’s dark, smooth, and malty. A good beer if you plan on having more than one drink or are trying to fit pizza in your stomach as well….

I finally made homemade crust!! I found this recipe for thin crust in my new Best of Food & Wine cookbook from Matt’s parents. It was so easy to make and came out perfect; no more TJ’S dough for me. I’d actually call this a flatbread rather than pizza because the edges were almost as crispy as a cracker. We topped the dough with olive oil, aged white cheddar, fresh figs, sage, and feta cheese and drizzled a bit of balsamic over the top.

The sage really brought out the sweetness of the figs and they both paired nicely with the simplicity of the crust. I heart the pizza concept.

We had to eat pretty quickly, because the concert we attended began on the early side. I went to see Ra Ra Riot , a group I started listening to because a good friend’s boyfriend does all the sound stuff for the band. Matt and I fell in love with their music when we saw them in concert two years ago, and we try to go see them whenever they come to town. These guys are incredible musicians and the singer has a beautiful voice; I also like cats, so I find this hilarious: