This week onHack Your City, we asked for yourbest Boston tips.
Here are the best tips from Lifehacker readers.
GozerTDestructoralso recommends the Ghosts and Gravestones tour, which is super kitschy but a great time.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra is surprisingly inexpensive if you are under 40, saysTARS.
Museums
Larry Indianasuggests the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts.
According toTARS, the Gardner is free for anyone named Isabella.
I dont believe weve metsuggests the Peabody (glass flowers!)
and the DeCordova: One year they commissioned a bunch of artists to create an 18 hole minigolf course.
One toured it by playing it.
Cheeto-floors, collapsing defensive structures to represent oppression…
I cant believe it wasnt given permanent status.
Saborlasrecommends the Museum of Science, and warns against the swan boats in the Boston Public Garden.
You would be wrong.
Five minutes in, your kids will be bored as hell.
You have 10 minutes left, and no ability to get off early.
Update 10/26 10:30 AM ET:Brighton Beer Garden is closed.
Sean Brodylists some faves:
Breakfast -
The Galley Diner
.
An old school greasy spoon.
Long may she last.
Pizza - Brave the lines at
Umbertos
for a rice (arancini) and a slice.
Just get there before noon.
Seafood -
Jaspers
- for unfussy lobsters and oyster shooters.
Neptune Oyster is awesome, but the lines are insane.
Legal Seafood is perfectly fine and an acceptable choice for a chain.
Great lobster tails as well - a trumpet like pastry with Cannoli filling.
Some fresher, made to order cannolis at Modern Pastry if youre feeling fancy.
Heres how to get drunk in Boston.
Start withGozerTDestructors recs:
Some great bars over by Faneuil Hall- Black Rose, Jose McIntyres.
And Union Oyster, Green Dragon Tavern have lots of original woodwork from revolutionary war times.
Theres a fairly new Brewery near Night Shift called Bone-Up.
And in between them a gin distillery called Short Path.
Hit all 3 and go to bed early that day!
Kill The Batsays that Trillium also opened abeer gardenon the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
Some bar picks fromSean Brody:
Downtown
JJ Foleys
is Irish without being Oirish.
And if you dont get insulted or offended by Jim behind the bar, just keep going back.
Hell get to you.
Cambridge -
Druid Pub, Inman Sq
is as good a pub as God put on this earth.
Fabulous food and friendlier than a happy puppy.
Daylonrecommends a rococo speakeasy:
Check out Yvonnes.
Its a speakeasy downtown that has a front that looks like a hair salon.
Best old fashioneds in Boston and the deco has a super cool Great Gatsby kind of vibe to it.
Youll also be standing on the spot the very first American flag was raised on January 1, 1776.
Others suggest Dorchester and Davis Square.
Getting Around
Many commenters advised against driving through the denser parts of Boston.
Others warn that the subway and bus can be painfully slow.
Dont have a go at take the train and dont rent a car, saysthrillhouse617.
Very aggressive, sayssmmy15643.
And if you take the train, c’mon take off your backpack, saysEvenBaggierTrousers7.
The city designer of Boston was basically cows and tides.
Prepare for two types of mass panic, saysrobotmonkeyzombiekiller:
College moving day - literally means shelter in place.
Uhauls will get stuck on storrow drive and mess up your commute.
In the spring the sidewalks will be cluttered with old couches and porn.
Theres always so much porn.
So keep a stocked pantry during the winter.
