things to do
The Lawn On D
SEAPORT SHENANIGANS: Okay, we've never been here, but other people go here! And they take pictures in the circle swings and sometimes there is music.
Trillium Brewing Company
SEAPORT SHENANIGANS: Nice brewery with cool indoor and outdoor spaces. Our welcome party will be here!
Harpoon Brewery & Beer Hall
SEAPORT SHENANIGANS: PRETTTTTTTZELSSSSSSS. They have great, giant pretzels. And also beer.
The Institute of Contemporary Art
SEAPORT SHENANIGANS: Waterfront modern art museum! Pretty small, easy to see everything, great gift shop.
OTTO
BROOKLINE BONANZA: Excellent pizza and right across the street from Coolidge Corner! We always get the margherita pizza because it is the best one. There's also an Otto in Harvard Square, if you end up going to Harvard Bookstore (further down).
Coolidge Corner Theatre
BROOKLINE BONANZA: Wonderful independent theatre with great movies and great lobby treats.
Union Square Donuts
BROOKLINE BONANZA: After your dinner-and-a-movie, stroll down to Union Square Donuts for a sweet treat! These donuts are also available at Time Out Market near Fenway if you find yourself over there! Blackbird Donuts is also over there, and those 'nuts are very good as well.
Brookline Booksmith
BROOKLINE BONANZA: This is the final piece of the R&B Sunday Activity trifecta: dinner at Otto, movie at Coolidge, and book-browsing at the Booksmith. A lovely independent bookstore with a bunch of cool Boston merch.
Fenway Park
TOURIST TO-DOS: The Fenway Park tour is really fun! Well, we've been on one that was really fun and one that was kind of terrible, but you have at least a 50/50 shot of a great one! (Those who know us well know that everything is 50/50: it will happen or it won't.)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
TOURIST TO-DOS: Our favorite museum in Boston! The Gardner museum is so beautiful, and there's a little something for everyone — there's art, there's a beautiful courtyard full of plants and flowers, there's an exhibit about how the museum was robbed — check it out!
Boston Duck Tours
TOURIST TO-DOS: WE LOVE A DUCK TOUR. These are so much fun (a car...that goes on land...AND IN WATER???) We also learned a lot on the tour we went on, many fun facts!! Maybe you'll ride in one that the Red Sox rode in during one of the parades!
Trident Booksellers & Cafe
TOURIST TO-DOS: This is a beautiful local bookstore and cafe on Newbury Street (another Tourist To-Do, for the shoppers!) with a huge menu and really hard trivia. It sort of burned down about a year about, but now it's rebuilt. Yay!
Veggie Galaxy
CAMBRIDGE CONNECTIONS: If Brad could marry a restaurant, you would be attending the wedding of Brad and Veggie Galaxy and not Brad and Rachel. Veggie Galaxy is an all-vegetarian diner and it is amazing.
Lamplighter Brewing Co.
CAMBRIDGE CONNECTIONS: This is a cute lil brewery with good free snacks (nothing crazy, just Goldfish and pretzels, but man, when was the last time you had Goldfish? they're so good!)
Harvard Book Store
CAMBRIDGE CONNECTIONS: If you want to punch your R&B bookstore card, the Harvard Bookstore is the last one you'll need!