Guidebook for Boston

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Guidebook for Boston

Food Scene

Locals go here for breakfast, lunch and local flavor. Crowded on the weekends at lunch time but great place during the week, and open as early as 5:30 (6:30 on Sunday)
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McKenna's Cafe
107-109 Savin Hill Ave
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Locals go here for breakfast, lunch and local flavor. Crowded on the weekends at lunch time but great place during the week, and open as early as 5:30 (6:30 on Sunday)
Very good Indian and Bangladeshi food. Good deal at lunchtime, an all you can eat buffet special.
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Shanti Restaurant
1111 Dorchester Ave
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Very good Indian and Bangladeshi food. Good deal at lunchtime, an all you can eat buffet special.
This is a REALLY good place for dinner, open 5:30-10:30 or 11:00pm. They take reservations from their website. Contemporary American Cuisine. You can walk to it in half an hour or take the T one stop from Savin Hill to JFK, going left on Columbia road, right on Vernon street and left on Boston Street
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224 Boston Street • Dorchester
224 Boston Street
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This is a REALLY good place for dinner, open 5:30-10:30 or 11:00pm. They take reservations from their website. Contemporary American Cuisine. You can walk to it in half an hour or take the T one stop from Savin Hill to JFK, going left on Columbia road, right on Vernon street and left on Boston Street
Very good Chinese food-you don't have to go all the way to Chinatown!
Chau Chow Restaurant
699 Morrissey Blvd
Very good Chinese food-you don't have to go all the way to Chinatown!
Very good Vietnamese take-out.
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Ba Le Restaurant
1052 Dorchester Ave
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Very good Vietnamese take-out.

Parks & Nature

You can walk this or bike it, I usually jog it. I leave the house going right, to a right on Old colony Terrace where you come out at Morrissey Boulevard. I go a little left, and cross at the intersection over to UMass Boston. The trail/path goes around the school along the water, and behind the JFK museum. I turn around at the second dock, (round trip is 3-1/2 miles) but you can continue on to Castle Island, which is 5 miles from my house. Very Scenic ocean views. you can see more if you copy and paste this link to your browser-http://bikeitorhikeit.org/boston_harborwalk.htm
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HarborWalk
HarborWalk
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You can walk this or bike it, I usually jog it. I leave the house going right, to a right on Old colony Terrace where you come out at Morrissey Boulevard. I go a little left, and cross at the intersection over to UMass Boston. The trail/path goes around the school along the water, and behind the JFK museum. I turn around at the second dock, (round trip is 3-1/2 miles) but you can continue on to Castle Island, which is 5 miles from my house. Very Scenic ocean views. you can see more if you copy and paste this link to your browser-http://bikeitorhikeit.org/boston_harborwalk.htm
This is a short hike right in the neighborhood with a great view. If you copy and paste this link, you can see photos. https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/savin-hill-park-dorchester?
Savin Hill Park
25 Caspian Way
This is a short hike right in the neighborhood with a great view. If you copy and paste this link, you can see photos. https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/savin-hill-park-dorchester?

Arts & Culture

Presidential History. You can walk to it or drive, the parking is free. There is a cafe onsite as well, and right next door is the Edward Kennedy Institute.
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Президентский музей и библиотека Джона Ф. Кеннеди
Columbia Point
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Presidential History. You can walk to it or drive, the parking is free. There is a cafe onsite as well, and right next door is the Edward Kennedy Institute.
Institute contains a full-scale reproduction of the United States Senate Chamber,a replica of Senator Kennedy’s Washington, D.C. office, and digital exhibits.
Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
210 Morrissey Blvd
Institute contains a full-scale reproduction of the United States Senate Chamber,a replica of Senator Kennedy’s Washington, D.C. office, and digital exhibits.
Built to evoke a 15th-century Venetian palace, the museum itself provides an atmospheric setting for Isabella Stewart Gardner's inventive creation. Gardner hired Willard T. Sears to design the building near the marshy Back Bay Fens to house her growing art collection.[3] Inside the museum, three floors of galleries surround a garden courtyard blooming with life in all seasons.
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Музей Изабеллы Стюарт Гарднер
25 Evans Way
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Built to evoke a 15th-century Venetian palace, the museum itself provides an atmospheric setting for Isabella Stewart Gardner's inventive creation. Gardner hired Willard T. Sears to design the building near the marshy Back Bay Fens to house her growing art collection.[3] Inside the museum, three floors of galleries surround a garden courtyard blooming with life in all seasons.

Shopping

Really nice yarn store, with lots of helpful people often knitting right there in the store.
Stitch House Dorchester
846 Dorchester Ave
Really nice yarn store, with lots of helpful people often knitting right there in the store.

Essentials

This store is at the JFK T stop. I sometimes stop here on my way home from work, pick up a few things and walk the rest of the way home. They have a pretty good selection of prepared food, and have a pharmacy as well.
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Star Market
4 River St
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This store is at the JFK T stop. I sometimes stop here on my way home from work, pick up a few things and walk the rest of the way home. They have a pretty good selection of prepared food, and have a pharmacy as well.
This is the pharmacy I use. Just a short way past the T on the corner of Savin Hill Ave and Dorchester Ave.
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Rite Aid
971 Bennington St
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This is the pharmacy I use. Just a short way past the T on the corner of Savin Hill Ave and Dorchester Ave.

Getting Around

Red line inbound to get you to Downtown Boston. 7 minute walk from my house
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Savin Hill station
125 Savin Hill Ave
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Red line inbound to get you to Downtown Boston. 7 minute walk from my house
Red line T stop, More trains to choose from when coming home. If I don't want to wait for an Ashmont train to go to Savin Hill I get off here and walk 15-20 minutes home along Morrissey Boulevard.
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JFK / UMass station
599 Old Colony Ave
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Red line T stop, More trains to choose from when coming home. If I don't want to wait for an Ashmont train to go to Savin Hill I get off here and walk 15-20 minutes home along Morrissey Boulevard.
They will come pick you up at the house if you make a reservation through them.+1 617-282-3900
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Enterprise Rent-A-Car
4009 Washington St
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They will come pick you up at the house if you make a reservation through them.+1 617-282-3900
This is a pick up and drop off for zip car rental. They charge either by the hour or the day.
141 Savin Hill
141 Savin Hill Ave
This is a pick up and drop off for zip car rental. They charge either by the hour or the day.