• City Name: Boston
  
• Major teams: Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics, Patriots (not mentioning anything Foxboro-related because I never go there)
  
• What to do: The North End is very close to the TD Garden (Bruins and Celtics); it has a ton of good Italian restaurants. The Museum of Science and the Aquarium are both very close and walkable on a nice day. You can also walk the Freedom Trail if you're a history buff, or take a Duck Tour. If you have a free night, there's a bunch of music venues (Sinclair, Paradise, Brighton Music Hall, House of Blues, Royale, Middle East). The MOFA and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum are both close to Fenway.
  
• What to avoid*: Quincy Market is a tourist trap. So is Cheers.
  
• How to get there: You can take the Blue line from the airport to get downtown (or Uber/Lyft from a designated pickup spot). If your hotel is downtown you should be able to walk or take a short T ride wherever you need to get to. The Green Line can be very slow west of Fenway. Uber/Lyft if you're staying further out, rather than gently caress with the commuter rail (my opinion).
  
• Stuff reasonably close that's interesting: Harvard Square is on the Red Line outbound from Downtown. Chinatown, as the name implies, has some great Chinese restaurants. There are a lot of Breweries around too (Harpoon, Mystic, Night Shift, Downeast, etc). If you're feeling really ambitious take a trip north (Salem, Beverly, Marblehead) or south (Quincy, Weymouth, Hingham) and hang out at a sea-side spot, get a lobster roll on the beach and all that fun poo poo.
  
• Pre/Post-Game Hangouts:
  
  Bruins/Celts: Any place between Causeway and Valenti Way will fill up at least an hour or so before game time, and if you're just drinking they should all do the trick. I like the food at Boston Beer Works, and Tavern in the Square has decent food too. I've heard good things about McGann's and Porters, although I've never eaten there.
  
  Fenway: Similar situation in that there are a lot of bars and restaurants nearby and they all fill up early. Again, Beer Works is solid, Yard House has a ton of space, Bleacher Bar is a cool experience because it faces out on to center field in Fenway, Loretta's Last Call is really good food and drink, and Jillian's/Lucky Strike has stuff like pool tables/bowling/arcade games. Baseball Tavern can be fun because it has a roof deck, but the food is not good.
  

Ace Jameson fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Aug 7, 2019