Boston Restaurants

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

... I'm really half dreading and half fascinated to go on college tours with my oldest in a few years.

having two college freshman i can say it is a very different experience than it was back in the late 80s when i was doing my touring. maybe it depends on the school (one of mine is at a jesuit school, the other at a VERY LARGE out-of-state land grant school) but what i felt like both me and the kids saw was more sanitized than even the front office view we got back when i was visiting the catholic schools of the north-east. or maybe i'm just a naive old man...

but i also was at bc before there was cable, internet, tinder, lower dining hall (3 of the 4 years), adderall, etc. a very different world

[hansen]

... I'm really half dreading and half fascinated to go on college tours with my oldest in a few years.

having two college freshman i can say it is a very different experience than it was back in the late 80s when i was doing my touring. maybe it depends on the school (one of mine is at a jesuit school, the other at a VERY LARGE out-of-state land grant school) but what i felt like both me and the kids saw was more sanitized than even the front office view we got back when i was visiting the catholic schools of the north-east. or maybe i'm just a naive old man...

but i also was at bc before there was cable, internet, tinder, lower dining hall (3 of the 4 years), adderall, etc. a very different world

didn't realize until this post that adderrall didn't exist in its current form until 1994. a previous formulation apparently existed prior to that but it contained 2 methamphetamines and was not marketed for add.

tinder was cool back in 2012 but now it's mostly bots, aspiring Russian brides, transgenders, and girls not looking to hookup.

[TontoKowalski]

... I'm really half dreading and half fascinated to go on college tours with my oldest in a few years.

having two college freshman i can say it is a very different experience than it was back in the late 80s when i was doing my touring. maybe it depends on the school (one of mine is at a jesuit school, the other at a VERY LARGE out-of-state land grant school) but what i felt like both me and the kids saw was more sanitized than even the front office view we got back when i was visiting the catholic schools of the north-east. or maybe i'm just a naive old man...

but i also was at bc before there was cable, internet, tinder, lower dining hall (3 of the 4 years), adderall, etc. a very different world

Cue the BCHerbert post for naive old men ... Thoughts on the fifth floor library bathrooms of these institutions?

I kid. I'm interested to see the extent to which structured experiences dominate - millenials love or need structured experiences, my kids do not. At all. They are perfectly happy to go in cold and sort things out for themselves.

They happy where they are? You happy where they are?

[TontoKowalski]

Wing It would not deliver to my Mod after I threatened to kill Wing It over the telephone.


I was mad.

If you had explained that you burned all the skin off your weener with lye, he might have been sympathetic and thrown in some extra blue cheese sauce.

[DomingoOrtiz]

783-BIRD

get the "suicide buffalo sauce" - it's not that hot

What was the nature of the bet you lost?

Large honey bbq plus mozzarella cheese sticks is what Zeus ate before he threw Cronos into Tartarus. Food of the gods. Why people ordered shit like Fast Eddie's when Wing It was available never made any sense to me.

i looked at their menu to remind myself to whether they called it suicide or nuclear. in doing so i see now that they also serve kababs and other non-wing/mozz stick related dishes. this was not the wing-it that i remember that served wings and maybe some soggy fries

fucking nerds

p.s. - the terrible order place in the latter part of my heights career was pizza etc - but only because you could charge it to the meal card. that was a very foreign concept in the early 90s, back when donna martin had to fight to graduate

I recall Papa Gino's being the first place you could charge to your meal card? It was next to Arbuckle's and it was terrible.

[TontoKowalski]

I recall Papa Gino's being the first place you could charge to your meal card? It was next to Arbuckle's and it was terrible.

I loved Arbuckles. Get a seat in the window and walk out through the kitchen if it was the end of the month and you saw the police approaching.

Mez' mom should get some chips from the MA's vending machine and then laugh at whatever jackass it is on here who has crapped in the bathrooms there.

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

783-BIRD

get the "suicide buffalo sauce" - it's not that hot

What was the nature of the bet you lost?

Large honey bbq plus mozzarella cheese sticks is what Zeus ate before he threw Cronos into Tartarus. Food of the gods. Why people ordered shit like Fast Eddie's when Wing It was available never made any sense to me.

i looked at their menu to remind myself to whether they called it suicide or nuclear. in doing so i see now that they also serve kababs and other non-wing/mozz stick related dishes. this was not the wing-it that i remember that served wings and maybe some soggy fries

fucking nerds

p.s. - the terrible order place in the latter part of my heights career was pizza etc - but only because you could charge it to the meal card. that was a very foreign concept in the early 90s, back when donna martin had to fight to graduate

I recall Papa Gino's being the first place you could charge to your meal card? It was next to Arbuckle's and it was terrible.

pizza etc. was slightly less craptacular than papa ginos, hence that was our meal card go-to.

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

... I'm really half dreading and half fascinated to go on college tours with my oldest in a few years.

having two college freshman i can say it is a very different experience than it was back in the late 80s when i was doing my touring. maybe it depends on the school (one of mine is at a jesuit school, the other at a VERY LARGE out-of-state land grant school) but what i felt like both me and the kids saw was more sanitized than even the front office view we got back when i was visiting the catholic schools of the north-east. or maybe i'm just a naive old man...

but i also was at bc before there was cable, internet, tinder, lower dining hall (3 of the 4 years), adderall, etc. a very different world

Cue the BCHerbert post for naive old men ... Thoughts on the fifth floor library bathrooms of these institutions?

I kid. I'm interested to see the extent to which structured experiences dominate - millenials love or need structured experiences, my kids do not. At all. They are perfectly happy to go in cold and sort things out for themselves.

They happy where they are? You happy where they are?

the "official visits" are overly structured so your kids will be driven mad by this. opening week is even more structured - and they bring the freshman to campus a week or more prior to classes starting for group dynamics, safe-space discussions, etc. i was not present for all that shit, but heard all about it and could feel the eye-rollings through the phone.

they are both quite pleased with where they are and very happy with their schools' performance in their major of study. i have more faith in them paying for my old age home than i do for their younger siblings...

[DuchesneEast]

I think my BC visit was the Gasson, Doug Flutie Loves Girls joke, quad, Oneil, the Plex and Conte finished up with a walk up Oneil's steps. We didnt see a classroom or a dorm.

[2001Eagle]

783-BIRD

get the "suicide buffalo sauce" - it's not that hot

What was the nature of the bet you lost?

Large honey bbq plus mozzarella cheese sticks is what Zeus ate before he threw Cronos into Tartarus. Food of the gods. Why people ordered shit like Fast Eddie's when Wing It was available never made any sense to me.

i looked at their menu to remind myself to whether they called it suicide or nuclear. in doing so i see now that they also serve kababs and other non-wing/mozz stick related dishes. this was not the wing-it that i remember that served wings and maybe some soggy fries

fucking nerds

p.s. - the terrible order place in the latter part of my heights career was pizza etc - but only because you could charge it to the meal card. that was a very foreign concept in the early 90s, back when donna martin had to fight to graduate

I recall Papa Gino's being the first place you could charge to your meal card? It was next to Arbuckle's and it was terrible.

pizza etc. was slightly less craptacular than papa ginos, hence that was our meal card go-to.

Papa gina’s Had shitty pizza but actually made a semi-decent cheese steak

[Onyx Blackman]

I think my BC visit was the Gasson, Doug Flutie Loves Girls joke, quad, Oneil, the Plex and Conte finished up with a walk up Oneil's steps. We didnt see a classroom or a dorm.

As of the early 2000s, the tour was this + "these stairs are heated and cost a million dollars."

[hansen]

I think my BC visit was the Gasson, Doug Flutie Loves Girls joke, quad, Oneil, the Plex and Conte finished up with a walk up Oneil's steps. We didnt see a classroom or a dorm.

the DFLG joke was something different, something more politically correct in 1996. I don't remember what it was though.

[hansen]

I think my BC visit was the Gasson, Doug Flutie Loves Girls joke, quad, Oneil, the Plex and Conte finished up with a walk up Oneil's steps. We didnt see a classroom or a dorm.

As of the early 2000s, the tour was this + "these stairs are heated and cost a million dollars."

fuck those millennial pussified stairs.... old Higgins stairs forever, new Higgins stairs never.

[Uptown Eagle]

783-BIRD

get the "suicide buffalo sauce" - it's not that hot

What was the nature of the bet you lost?

Large honey bbq plus mozzarella cheese sticks is what Zeus ate before he threw Cronos into Tartarus. Food of the gods. Why people ordered shit like Fast Eddie's when Wing It was available never made any sense to me.

I'll admit that Fast Eddie's received a fair share of my spending cash during junior year off campus but just because it was within walking distance of Cummings.

[2014 Eagle]

I can't get behind il panini being fancy. Christ.

I read that as “i agree il panini is a good place in the north end and grill 23 if you want a fancy place”. But re-reading it, your comprehension of the sentence seems more accurate from what is actually written. I tend to think my interpretation although not what he literally says, it is what he actually meant.

Ya I missed a punctuation mark there...Il Panino is nice but not Grill 23 nice

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

783-BIRD

get the "suicide buffalo sauce" - it's not that hot

What was the nature of the bet you lost?

Large honey bbq plus mozzarella cheese sticks is what Zeus ate before he threw Cronos into Tartarus. Food of the gods. Why people ordered shit like Fast Eddie's when Wing It was available never made any sense to me.

I'll admit that Fast Eddie's received a fair share of my spending cash during junior year off campus but just because it was within walking distance of Cummings.

did you also live at 56 Cummings?

[twballgame9]

Can't believe how many people here like Abe and louies. Shitty steaks and 58 year old tail. Kudos.

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

Can't believe how many people here like Abe and louies. Shitty steaks and 58 year old tail. Kudos.

I bet their bud light is cold, though

[Los]

Does Lucky Wah still deliver to BC?

[TontoKowalski]

I'll admit that Fast Eddie's received a fair share of my spending cash during junior year off campus but just because it was within walking distance of Cummings.

Walking distance, all bets are off - it's why chi-chi made any money at all. Cause sometimes the late night hunger is too overwhelming to wait for delivery (for certain posters, this condition never moderated or altered after college).

[innocentbystander]

Vinny Testa's

don't know if they are still open since I was there in 2002, but that was the best Italian in the suburbs

[Uptown Eagle]

783-BIRD

get the "suicide buffalo sauce" - it's not that hot

What was the nature of the bet you lost?

Large honey bbq plus mozzarella cheese sticks is what Zeus ate before he threw Cronos into Tartarus. Food of the gods. Why people ordered shit like Fast Eddie's when Wing It was available never made any sense to me.

I'll admit that Fast Eddie's received a fair share of my spending cash during junior year off campus but just because it was within walking distance of Cummings.

did you also live at 56 Cummings?

Nope. 11 Cummings.

[flyingelvii]

Vinny Testa's

don't know if they are still open since I was there in 2002, but that was the best Italian in the suburbs

You would suggest a closed down suburban restaurant chain that was bought by Bertucci’s and sold to Buca di Beppo’s or whatever the fuck it’s called as THE SPOT to go in an city with rich Italian cuisine.

[innocentbystander]

Vinny Testa's

don't know if they are still open since I was there in 2002, but that was the best Italian in the suburbs

You would suggest a closed down suburban restaurant chain that was bought by Bertucci’s and sold to Buca di Beppo’s or whatever the fuck it’s called as THE SPOT to go in an city with rich Italian cuisine.

If you live in Framingham, Newton, Dedham, or wherever, sometimes you can't always make it into the North End for decent Italian food...

[BC923]

Vinny Testa's

don't know if they are still open since I was there in 2002, but that was the best Italian in the suburbs

You would suggest a closed down suburban restaurant chain that was bought by Bertucci’s and sold to Buca di Beppo’s or whatever the fuck it’s called as THE SPOT to go in an city with rich Italian cuisine.

If you live in Framingham, Newton, Dedham, or wherever, sometimes you can't always make it into the North End for decent Italian food...

Go to Alta Strada then, or La Morra if you can make it a little farther in

[flyingelvii]

Vinny Testa's

don't know if they are still open since I was there in 2002, but that was the best Italian in the suburbs

You would suggest a closed down suburban restaurant chain that was bought by Bertucci’s and sold to Buca di Beppo’s or whatever the fuck it’s called as THE SPOT to go in an city with rich Italian cuisine.

If you live in Framingham, Newton, Dedham, or wherever, sometimes you can't always make it into the North End for decent Italian food...

And if you’re staying in Cleveland Circle, as is the case here, you can.

[twballgame9]

There's an italian joint in newton center that's pretty good, tartufo

[HJS]

783-BIRD

get the "suicide buffalo sauce" - it's not that hot

What was the nature of the bet you lost?

Large honey bbq plus mozzarella cheese sticks is what Zeus ate before he threw Cronos into Tartarus. Food of the gods. Why people ordered shit like Fast Eddie's when Wing It was available never made any sense to me.

I'll admit that Fast Eddie's received a fair share of my spending cash during junior year off campus but just because it was within walking distance of Cummings.

did you also live at 56 Cummings?

Nope. 11 Cummings.

Probably didn’t even have a Mexican family living in a dank, unheated crawl-space-like basement.

[b0mberMan]

They upgraded the undocumenteds in 56 when I lived there. There were 6 Irish nationals living in the basement who worked construction and then got piss drunk at Green Briar every night and came home shouting and swinging at each other on the street at 3 AM

[DomingoOrtiz]

783-BIRD

get the "suicide buffalo sauce" - it's not that hot

What was the nature of the bet you lost?

Large honey bbq plus mozzarella cheese sticks is what Zeus ate before he threw Cronos into Tartarus. Food of the gods. Why people ordered shit like Fast Eddie's when Wing It was available never made any sense to me.

i looked at their menu to remind myself to whether they called it suicide or nuclear. in doing so i see now that they also serve kababs and other non-wing/mozz stick related dishes. this was not the wing-it that i remember that served wings and maybe some soggy fries

fucking nerds

p.s. - the terrible order place in the latter part of my heights career was pizza etc - but only because you could charge it to the meal card. that was a very foreign concept in the early 90s, back when donna martin had to fight to graduate

I recall Papa Gino's being the first place you could charge to your meal card? It was next to Arbuckle's and it was terrible.

pizza etc. was slightly less craptacular than papa ginos, hence that was our meal card go-to.

And now they are bankrupt.