Boston Travel Guide, Part IV

You gotta eat. So if you're gonna eat, eat well.

The aforementioned Pizzeria Regina is definitely at the top of my list for things to recommend in Boston. It just might be the best pizza I've ever had.

This place was very interesting:

Unfortunately, I have no recollection of the restaurant's name. I know it's in the North End. I'm 99.9% sure it's on Hanover St, on the east side of the road. What you see is what you get with this place: one room. Literally, that is all that the restaurant is. 4 or 5 tables and the kitchen is literally right beside you. I wound up ordering octopus (by mistake). But the presentation of the meal was incredible. They served it to me straight in the pan it was cooked in. Incredible.

Charles Street, close to the Charles River, is a great street to walk. We found a number of good eateries on that road, including a great breakfast spot, Panificio, as well as some wonderful small Italian restaurants.

I do remember being offended (sort of), though, while at Panificio, from the following conversation:

Guy in restaurant: "Yeah, not looking forward to today."
Proprieter: "Why not?"
Guy: "Gotta go to some little po-dunk town in Texas."
Proprieter: "Oh yeah, where?"
Guy: "Abilene."

I lived in Abilene for seven years. Abilene is not po-dunk.

A good rule of thumb when trying to pick among a number of restaurants (like on Charles St.) is to look for stickers on the door. Along with the stickers of which credit cards restaurants will take, some great restaurants will have certain identifiable stickers on their door, such as Zagat, Trip Advisor, etc. It's not that you can't go wrong when you see a sticker, as we have been disappointed in some places with those markers. But more often than not, I have found, that if a place has a Zagat sticker on it, you will most likely enjoy your meal.

A place I would not recommend going is Cheers.

I was told by others that it was not worth time. And they were correct. It's not worth your time, either. Fortunately, I was in the area, so I was walking by it, anyway. I would recommend only stopping by if you are literally walking by it. If not, you will regret the minutes it took you to get there.