Grezzo = Raw (in Italian)
Located in Boston’s north end, chef-owned Grezzo serves up uncooked dishes of organic, locally sourced ingredients paired with biodynamic wines and sake.
Rustic-themed, the warm hues and copper tables cast the room with a romantic glow.
Grezzo
69 Prince Street
(857) 362-7288
grezzorestaurant.com
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Chef Guy Martin, multiple Michelin stars for his restaurant in France, is the purveyor of this hotel based bistro.
The menu is seasonal, mostly local, and small in a good way. There is a “Sensing snacking platter,” which contains six small bites; five starters; four fish and four meat entrees; some cheese and four sweets. The meal is pricey and flavored with a dash of whimsy and dinner theater with a few culinary tricks.
Expect to pay a pretty penny.
Sensing, at the Fairmont Battery Wharf
3 Battery Wharf
(617) 994-9001
sensingrestaurant.com.
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The Frog Pond is open for the season. Sharpen those skates, or rent some! A hopping spot for ice-skating is the Frog Pond on the Boston Common. Although dependent on the weather, Frog Pond has its own ice-making system. It also offers skate rentals and hot cocoa at the Pond Cottage.
This year the Frog Pond introduces freestyle skating on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. for $12 a session. Don’t forget to bring your own skates, because there are no rentals during that time.
Season Passes
Individual season passes are available for $100, family passes are $150, and a lunchtime pass good Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (holidays excluded), is available for $60.
Mass Transit:
Park Street Station on the Red and Green Lines.
The prime location of Frog Pond makes it easy to squeeze in just an hour or so of ice skating. Why not go skating while waiting for a movie at the Boston Common Loews Theater? Or go skating to relax after a crazy day of shopping in the nearby Downtown Crossing. And for the hopeless romantics out there, go skating under the starlit sky and finish it off with a stroll in the park.
For more information, call (617) 635-2121.
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We recommend Sportello for the perfect lunch, it’s counter-style space (“Sportello” is Italian for “counter”) makes it ideal for mid-day often harried eating.
In spite of the bustle and hustle, there’s plenty of space for you to enjoy a slow glass of wine over the strozzapreti (“priest stranglers”), little twists of pasta served with bits of braised rabbit, green olives, and a sauce made with rabbit jus and rosemary or a dish of gnocchitini, baby dumplings graced in a light seafood-and-tomato sauce with mussels.
Bella pasta!
Sportello
348 Congress Street
(617) 737-1234
sportelloboston.com.
If you follow the Harborwalk along South Boston’s ever-developing waterfront you’ll be in for a breathtaking entry to the Diller Scofidio + Renfro–designed Institute of Contemporary Art.
Before immersing yourself in the art—shows are seasonal and ever-changing—we recommend that you start at the top-floor Founders’ Gallery where a thin perch spanning the entire width of the museum provides an awesome view of sailboats drifting in the harbor and jets taxiing at Logan.
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The South End has become a bastion of creativity and artistic expression. Walking down Washington Street you’ll see where the inspiration comes from in the well-preserved architecture.
Home to an eclectic mix of design boutiques, Natalie van Dijk Carpenter’s Lekker, which opened here five years ago, stands out. Lekker the Dutch word for alluring, enticing, great, attractive and tempting is fitting for Carpenter’s European concept store.
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The famous Swan Boats in the Public Garden, www.swanboats.com ($2.50; age 2 to 15, $1), offer another peaceful interlude. While parents sit back for the 15-minute figure-eight cruise around the lagoon (including an island where the ducks lived in the book “Make Way for Ducklings”), children will be quietly intrigued by the driver pedaling away, bicyclelike, behind the swan in the back of the boat.
M.I.T. Museum Main Gallery
265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, (617) 253-4444
web.mit.edu/museum
($5; age 5 to 18, $2; closed Monday), you’ll find robots, 3-D holograms, including one of the remains of a 2,000-year-old man discovered in a bog in England, and an exhibition of photographs that capture instants in time like when a bullet explodes through an apple.
