document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This setting should only be used on your home or work computer. The then-Parker House Hotel had become a gathering place for transcendentalists and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Long gone, now, of course. Parsnip: This upscale Harvard Square restaurant, housed in the multi-level space that formerly held Upstairs on the Square, opened in late 2015. But the NoNames legacy cant be understated,believe me..it served as a virtual Restaurant Academy, and chances are there is at least one establishment in your area that owes its existence to that chain of entrepreneurship that issued forth from the humble Fish Pier! The Apolo dinner and Benjamins in Taunton MA, Tiny Jims in Buzzards Bay MA, and remember standing in line at York steak house chains around NE. The mini-golf course (plus batting cages and other amusements) that the orange dinosaur was part of is now condos, but they preserved the dinosaur; its easily visible from route 1. The pizza was the size of the table. Kevin Bresnahan, Loved when my parents took me to the European. Prints & Photographs Division John Margolies/Library of Congress. [] Wed get a cooler and go to the butcher shop and load it up with steaks, chicken, and lots of goodies including the famous grapenut custard pudding! Bethany Fowler. And where I discovered that pesto is fantastic especially on a toasted roll with turkey and cheese. Quite a fewtaverns around the city can likely boast Paul Revere having drank there, but few can say the same about Charles Dickens. I only got to Durgin-Park once, but it was great. Ahh, yes, the Pillar House ~ very much a special-occasion restaurant. Wednesday smorgasbord, homemade pies. Catania opened his first restaurant in 1963 (belying the menus claim of famous since 1831), but 10 years later he had sold all the locations except the one in Falmouth. Wicked yummy! We even sat next to Mark Wahlberg there one day! It should be noted, also, that were not really lamenting here, just pointing out that interesting stuff has happened in places you wouldnt think to look because of natural change. In the early decades of the car boom, Route 1 in Saugus, Massachusetts, was a bastion of kitschy restaurants, each of which wore its theme proudly and worked to out-do the others. A little further up Rte 1 was The Ship shaped like a sailing ship. We would go there from West Roxbury for their fried clams and bring their pizza home. But some of the citys most notable eating and drinking establishments wont be open to welcome Bostonians back. We uncover the best of the city and put it all in an email for you. It was across from the Plymouth public beach area. For my part, I miss all the classic diners that have been closed or moved. The Cock n Kettle was epic! There is still one in Woburn that I know of. Then one of the first Mexican restaurants in the area the name escapes me. There was a Yokens in Danvers , Mass in the early 70s . I felt badly when I heard of their fire and subsequent closure. The lobster pie was absolutely filled with big chunks of buttery lobster and a buttery topping and it was my favorite.