OCTOBER 1 2007
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The Daily Catch is a place in the North
Endwhere they serveyoucalamari inapan.
It’s pretty much only calamari and pasta
—delicious.
TWELVE: Italians make good
dessertS. Sodoes Ben& Jerry’s.
InLittle Italy, there are great pastry shops.
My boyfriend, Christopher, thinksModern
Pastry Shop is the best pastry shop in the
NorthEnd.When I am there, I always take
awalkupNewburyStreetandhit theBen&
Jerry’s. That’s the best stopon the street, as
far as I’m concerned.
THIRTEEN: She has very, very
strong arms.
There is a quite famous
place— a place where I used to work, ac-
tually — on Newbury Street called Daisy
Buchanan’s. I was just 18 when I worked
there. It is a tiny, tiny little place in a base-
ment. All theRedSox players and theBru-
WeSaid…
Here’swherewe find the
best of Boston.
LODGING
Hotel@MIT
, expensive to very expensive, (617) 577-
0200,
. Can’t live without your
iPhone? Lost without your GPS? Then punch this high-
tech hotel’s info into your Palm Pilot. From the original
MIT robots in the lobby to the futuristic phones in each
room, this hotel proves geek can be chic.
Hotel 140
, inexpensive, (617)585-5600,www.hotel140
.com. Just four miles from Logan Airport, this basic yet
stylishhotel has other great advantages to its locale. It’s
in the historic headquarters of America’s first YWCA,
is next door to the John Hancock Tower, and is mere
blocks fromBackBay shops and eateries andSouthEnd
nightlife.
DINING
Oak Bar
, expensive, (617) 267-5300,
.com/copleyplaza. Boston cream pie may have been in-
vented at the Omni Parker House hotel restaurant, but
we prefer the version served in the Fairmont Copley
Plaza’s dining room. Or, better yet, when we don’t feel
like getting quite so gussied up, we order a slice at the
hotel’sOakBar (which serves the restaurant’s full steak-
housemenu).
Trident Booksellers & Café
, inexpensive tomoderate,
(617) 267-8688,
The selec-
tion of books andmagazines at Trident is great, and the
café’s menu—which lists everything from frittatas to
fish tacos to ice cream and doughnuts— is a real page-
turner itself.
ATTRACTION
Boston’s Logan International Airport
, (617) 561-
1800,
. A distant foghorn and a
symphony of croaking frogs and chirping crickets inside
an airport? Yep. Unveiled in April, artist Christopher
Janney’s work covers eight stories and features giant
colored-glass walls and piped-in sound images. Jan-
ney describes the installation as being “like an evening
through thewoods inNewHampshire.”
ins players and the Celtics players go there
after games.
That was the hardest place in town to
be a cocktail waitress. It was just packed,
and therewouldbe somanypeople in there
that you couldn’t hold the tray in front of
your body. You’d have to suspend the tray
completelyover yourhead. Theyused thick
glass mugs, so it was heavy. And you had
tohold the tray over your headwhilewear-
ing high heels and a miniskirt. You have
to wear high heels because all the guys in
there are so tall because most of them are
basketball players or football players. You
developgreat shouldermuscles, though.
person inAmerica.
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