The World is My Lobster...

“Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!” ~Alexander Pope

I love Boston.

I first visited in 1994, on my own, to see a Boston Bruins game in old Boston Garden before they tore it down. (Yes, I have already blogged about this a bit…) I also ended up seeing a Celtics game during that trip, too, but my trips to Boston are all about hockey—or more specifically, my Bruins. Oh, and the lobster and clam chowder, too.

We arrived in Boston early Friday evening.

My visits to Boston are always about hockey. And food!

Luxurious lobster nights, as usual…

This trip was a quick one but before we even landed I knew that the best thing I would eat that week would be eaten in Boston.

Our flight landed in the early evening. Early enough to see both the sun set over the city that Friday night, and definitely early enough to have a large dinner at Legal Sea Foods.

Cheers to Boston!
A bowl of clam chowder in Boston is one of my favorite things.

Legal is one of our favorite stops. It is a restaurant chain, but a quality chain and they are known for the quality of their food, the seafood especially. They have never let me down, and we usually start to think about the clam chowder as soon as we get off the plane. If not sooner.

Seafood casserole…filled with lobster, shrimp, whitefish and scallops.
Oh, my!

A new stop at Eataly Boston…
so many sweets…
so, so many sweets…
gave way to a nightcap of hot tea…
…with some of those sweets from Eataly at Prudential Center.

Or not. I did not share my Rum baba, my cream puff or my lemon meringue tarts.

Farewell, to the usual…

I’m not going to lie, I can be pretty predictable when it comes to eating in Boston.

Because Boston is—outside of my home state of Texas—my most visited city in the United States, I tend to go to the same delicious places when I visit. Kinda like in your own hometown, when you vow to try new places, but somehow end up at your usual favorites more often than not.

Not this time, though! Some friends recommended a few places I hadn’t been to before and so Peter and I decided to check them out.

Ready for a full day of Bruins, beer and more lobster.

My friend Risa recommended we try Modern Pastry Shop, instead of our usual stop at Mike’s Pastry, up the street.

Wow!
Everything looked wonderful.
XOXO
Beautiful!
So cool! I’m getting a cannoli.
Lemon squares. XOXO
The line was out the door, but it went pretty quickly and the view inside while standing in line to order makes the wait worthwhile.