Trip to Boston, MA, Sunday, June 4, 2006 cont.

Trip to Boston, MA
Sunday, June 4, 2006 cont.

After that we walked through the Public Gardens. Saw the Make Way for Ducklings statues and the Pedestrian Bridge. From there we headed to Newbury Street, which has a bunch of shops and restaurants. We had lunch at a Tapas restaurant. It was pretty good. I had some lobster ravioli.

Make Way for Ducklings Statue

Pedestrian Bridge in Public Gardens

We walked up to the Esplanade on the Charles River. It looked like a MIT sail club was out on the river.

View from the Esplanade

View of Back Bay from the Esplanade

View from the Esplanade

We walked over to the Hatch Shell. The inside of which appears to be wood. Very fancy looking.

The Shell

We crossed back over to Beacon Hill, and walked by Cheers. The outside is the Cheers from the television show. The inside is completely different. The Cheers bar in the Quincy Market area has the replica of the interior of the television bar.
From there we headed back to the Old State house where we purchased some shirts from the vendor. Then headed to Quincy Market to find us a cupcake and tea (coffee for Lisa). Outside Faneuil Hall, we stopped to watch some street performers. They appeared to be high school aged.

Street Performers outside Faneuil Hall

We found ourselves a cupcake, and just took a rest at the market for a little while. From there we headed over to Christopher Columbus Park, and the wharf.

View from Long Wharf

View from Long Wharf

Just kind of walked around the wharfs and tried to locate some information on the water taxi to the airport. Outside the Aquarium, we found another vender and purchased more shirts. Well, hoodies.

After a rest at the hotel, we walked to the Downtown Crossing T stop. From there we took the subway to the Massachusetts stop. We walked up Massachusetts toward Tremont. On our way we past by this cool little jazz club. Unfortunately some of the buildings around it were boarded up. Then we headed up Tremont. We were trying to find this restaurant that we read about in this book we checked out at one of the stores we stopped in. The restaurant is called Sibling Rivalry. Turns out that the restaurant is a very lo-o-o-ng distance from the Mass. Ave stop.

Sibling Rivalry is a restaurant owned by two brothers, both chefs. The menu is separated into 3 columns. One column is Chef Dave and another is Chef Bob. The middle column is the similar ingredient between the two choices. The food was very good. We had some vegetable called salsify. We had to remember the name so that we could look it up when we got home. It was an ingredient listed in one of our dishes, but we had no idea what it was. We went under the assumption that if it was being served in the meal then it was something edible.[http://www.siblingrivalryboston.com/home.htm]

After dinner, we ended up walking back to the hotel.