Pre-Symphony Dinner on a Tuesday
New to Chowhound and looking for a pre-symphony dinner (8 pm start) on a Tuesday night. Staying at Taj. I think we will try Neptune Oyster the day before. 1st trip to Boston.
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Neptune Oyster
63 Salem St Ste 1, Boston, MA 02113
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opinionatedchef
Oct 5, 2010 10:02 PM
Boston's most innovative dining is at Clio, on Mass Ave; refined , elegant Asian and French influenced food. A 5 min. cab ride from Symph Hall.
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BostonZest
Oct 6, 2010 06:51 AM
One thing that is fun to do around a concert is to enjoy some wonderful ethnic place iike Pho Basil before the show. The food is quick, portions big and they will get you out in time for the opening bell. Then stop into the bar at a place like Clio, after the event and have a drink and dessert at their bar. Or, a drink and a sample of one of their appetizers.
Here's a "Where to dine around symphony piece" from last year. I'll have to add this conversation to it and try a few more of the places suggested here.
http://www.bostonzest.com/2010/03/where-to-dine-around-symphony-hall.html
Penny
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Pho Basil Restaurant
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The venerable Bangkok City (Thai) on Mass Ave (2 blocks up from Symphony Hall) is moderate/inexpensive with a beautiful dining room. Feels more elegant than menu prices might suggest.
More casual - and even tastier - is Pho Basil a few doors away. Thai and Vietnamese, but both cuisines are done well (Vietnamese dishes are a bit stronger, IMO). The pho is outstanding (beef and chicken broth based). Great, cheerful service. It's my main take-out spot.
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Bangkok City Restaurant
167 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA 02115Pho Basil Restaurant
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re: peregrine
Respectfully, I've never had worse Thai food in my life than at Pan Thai (that little Westland Ave spot).
My wife and I were "forced" by an immense Thai craving to eat there on Labor Day when our 2 favorite spots (mentioned above) were closed. We live in the neighborhood, and so we knew Pan Thai had a bad reputation, but we were on a mission. Sadly, we've honestly never tasted murkier, nastier, more inexcusably bad Thai food in our life.
FWIW, we ordered Tom Yum soup, grilled beef salad, Pad-U-See, and Som Tum. We ate no more than a few bites of each.
Needless to say, it was our one and only (and last) experience there. Why even bother when there are two jewels around the corner?
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Pan Thai Restaurant
14A Westland Ave, Boston, MA 02115
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I like some of the suggestions already given. It's not clear what your budget for the meal is, and whether you want something more formal, in keeping with a night at BSO, or something informal and less expensive to off-set the cost of said night out.
If the latter, and if you're not from california, where you'll have much better options, moby dick, right next door to symphony hall is not a bad place. It's an iranian kebab restaurant -- extremely informal, but the food is better than the surroundings. It will be modestly priced (c.$20pp). The kebab is good for Boston, although not outstanding in its own right.
Just suggesting as a possible alternative.
tb
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BobB
Sep 28, 2010 12:09 PM
Closer in (on Gainsborough St, parallel to Mass Ave just behind Symphony Hall ) is Symphony Sushi. Less formal than Brasserie Jo, and quite decent. The other options that close are pretty dismal - and whatever you do, stay out of Betty's Wok & Roll!
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Symphony Sushi
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