Restaurants

Some ideas please. Visiting Boston end of June. Staying near theatre area. Would like good non pretentious restaurants that provide ribs (similar to Tony Romas) Visited states before but not Boston so know we wont be dissapointed. Also similar restaurants that have seafood on menus. Thanks

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Tony Romas%26#39; is in the south and ribs are a traditional southern style food. You are coming to Boston. So for the best, authentic ribs in Boston, you have to be willing to go way off-the-beaten-path into the neighborhoods (with southern heritage) where they are cooked, often in a barrel outside a trailer in an empty lot (like M%26amp;M and others have done for years). For more tourist accessible, but good, restaurants (but still not Downtown), try Redbones in Davis Square, Somerville (Red line subway) or Uncle Pete%26#39;s in Revere (Blue line subway). There are also a couple of reasonable suburban locations (Firefly%26#39;s, Blue Ribbon, etc.) that are harder to access without a car. There are plenty of other restaurants in Boston that have %26#39;em, but.......

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Actually, I think Tony Roma%26#39;s is a chain restaurant similar to Chili%26#39;s or Bugaboo Creek, which I think is what leighEngland has in mind (just my guess).

You can get delicious BBQ ribs and lots more of that stuff at Whiskey%26#39;s on Boylston in the Back Bay. I%26#39;d advise going earlier than later because the place turns into a meat market at night. It%26#39;s very reasonable as well.

Just a quick add-on, if you were in Boston on June 18-22, you could have attended the BBQ Beach Party at City Hall Plaza. The best BBQ teams in the world competing. :(

I would aim higher than a chain restaurant.

Is your heart set on barbeque? Great barbeque isn%26#39;t exactly what New England is known for.

I think when leighEngland says ';good non pretentious restaurants that provide ribs (similar to Tony Romas) Visited states before but not Boston so know we wont be dissapointed'; he/she is thinking of strip mall restaurants like Chilis, Bugaboo Creek, Outback Steak House, Macaroni Grill, Olive Garden, and Tony Roma%26#39;s, which is what most restaurants in the United States are these days. Not the sort of thing one would expect to find in downtown Boston (and not to say that I don%26#39;t like to eat at these sorts of places sometimes myself).

Come to Texas. We can fix you up!!! :D

Boston for ribs? Wrong city. There was a restaurant list in response to a 5/21 post by CK1234. That might be a place to start. Seafood is your best bet for the Hub. There are pretentious, and non-pre. restaurants listed for the above poster...good luck and happy eating! Boston is a great restaurant city...

Stockyard Rest. in North Brighton....I believe Market Street. I am not a big rib eater in restaurants but this is the place I would go.

Take the Orange line to Wellington Station and walk about a half of a mile to ';Texas Roadhouse'; at the Gateway Shopping Center in Everett.