tasty business

boston eat party, take 2

i hope you guys saved up some drool after my last post cos i’m about to unleash even MORE boston tasty business!!! PREPARE YRSELVES FOR TOTAL DELICIOUS DOMINATION.

just typing that made me suddenly wish there was a tasty business smackdown show, like with food instead of wrestling. and people faced off by eating the most delicious food in the world and taunted each other like, “WATCH THIS SWEET POTATO FRY GO STRAIGHT INTO MY MOUTH, SUCKA!!!” oh man. not only would i watch that show, i would try super hard to get on it.

anyway! back to boston!

on sunday, we drove out to stonehurst, this cool old mansion that’s surrounded by a forest. it’s maudie’s favorite place to walk, cos she can run around like crazy and bark at sticks. you can tell in this picture that she is TOTES excited:

on the way out there, we stopped at sofra, this CRAZY DELICIOUS bakery owned by the same folks who run oleana (the mediterranean restaurant we dined at the night before).

sweet cracker sandwich, this place was PACKED with people. and, more importantly, it was also packed with TONS OF PASTRIES.

y’all, i almost dreaded reaching the register cos it meant that i would have to choose between more than a dozen delicious choices. in the end, i settled on some focaccia-like bread dusted with herbs:

and a croissant slathered with mascarpone, orange and chocolate. OMGGGGGGGGGG.

oh sweet little croissant, WHY ARE YOU NO LONGER IN MY HAND?! i need you right now.

our walk through the woods was a lovely respite from the bustling of the city. plus, as henri pointed out, they actually have, like, WOODS on the east coast, as opposed to the dense shrubbery and pine trees in texas. it made me feel like i was in lord of the rings or something (aragorn! come hither!).

i fell behind the group a bit cos i got distracted by all of the nature. and by nature i mean THE DELICIOUS CROISSANT IN MY MOUTH.

that is my kind of trail food, you guys. forget about granola bars.

once my croissant was gone, i manged to shift my attention to the actual fauna and flora. like, check out these wild orchids!

i also really loved these bell-shaped flowers, cos they seem like something from a disney movie.

ok i need to stop with the flower pictures before i start trying to write inspirational messages over them.

maudie was less into flora and way more into the fauna, like this frog she tried to befriend via loud barking.

unfortunately for maudie, the frog was less interested in exchanging BFF charms and more interested in staying alive and uneaten.

after meandering down different paths, we ended up in what seemed like the oldest part of the forest. jenny and i made a few “twilight” references, because we can’t help ourselves. even when we know that’s worse than trying to crack a joke about ents or something.

we circled back to the house, which turns out to be the location of my future old-fashioned fancy pants party cos LOOK!!!!

seriously. stonehurst. 2010. ballgowns. dance cards. champers. delicious gossip. romantic intrigue! esp. as people lounge about on the back patio overlooking this!!!

BEST PARTY EVER! interested sponsors, page me!!!!

after all of that brisk bucolic exercise, it was time for refreshment in the form of my favorite noodle chain ever, WAGAMAMA!!!! which previously existed solely in london, meaning i’ve only gotten to eat there a few times but NOW THERE ARE TWO IN BOSTON!! I AM NOT KIDDING!! and so THANK YOU GODS OF TASTY BUSINESS there is no longer an ocean separating me from THIS:

oh delectable noodles!!! come to texas!! we will love you forever! and maybe put queso on you! cos that’s what we do in texas!

i have to take a picture every time i get to eat at wagamama, which i realize is a rule that has expanded to include, um, every restaurant i go to. but anyway. here’s the official wagamama photo, boston edition!

after lunch, we headed over to newbury street for some shopping (H&M, obvs) and some cupcake sampling at a nearby shop, sweet.

so, i’d heard a lot great things about sweet, although as a cupcake connoisseur i remained skeptical. cos that’s what connoisseurs do– act snobby. BUT my excitement level definitely shot up a notch when i saw this beautousness on the shelves:

like, straight outta wayne thiebaud!!!!

i made everyone take a photo with their cupcake, cos, um, i’m sarah pitre.

henri got a mini dark chocolate one and acted all cute about it.

george and jenny got three different ones to try, cos THEY ARE AWESOME.

and i got the caramel chocolate cupcake, which was v. v. scrumptious looking:

so yeah, the cupcakes all looked fabulous but… well, sweet, i hate to break it to you but… um, SUGAR MAMA’S TOTALLY BEATS YR PANTS OFF. FACE HARD.

there was nothing *bad* about the cupcakes, they just weren’t amazing. i didn’t gasp out loud or bang my fist on the table like i do when i eat an elvis or an odd couple from sugar mama’s. in other words, sweet offered no competition for the 2009 best cupcake poshie.

we decided to make our last dinner in boston uber traditional and hit up a “legal seafood” restaurant near harvard. with images of don draper dancing (er, standing and looking enigmatic?) in his head, henri ordered the biggest platter ever (plus a martini, obvs). cos nothing says “manly” like ripping apart a big lobster and getting butter on yr chin!

i had the fish and chips, cos i’m more of a peggy olsen than a betty draper.

to finish off the night, we headed over to fenway to check out this bowling alley/bar called “lucky strike.”

um… yeah.

let me put it to you this way: the neon sign was the first and only thing i liked about this place:

you guys. if you ever seen this sign, RUN. AWAY. cos it’s a homing beacon for douchebags around the world.

ok, so we kind of knew it would be cheesy, but sometimes cheesy can be a good thing. especially when the website features celebrity sightings as awesome as THIS:

DUDE. come on. who doesn’t want to party with clint eastwood?!!!

unfortunately, clint wasn’t around, and therefore the “awesome” type of cheesy fell to zero and the “douchebag” brand shot WAY up. way, way, way up. like, EXTREME SPORTS BAR up. in spite of this, we decided to stick around and wait for a lane to open (note the big screen tvs above the lanes, so you can watch sports even as you bowl. um yay).

after about an hour of waiting, we actually warmed up to the place.

HA HA JUST KIDDING.

jenny and i decided to make a break for it before someone spilled a natty light on our heads or they announced some kind of bikini contest. george and henri, brave soldiers that they are, remained behind in order to spread a bit of hope and decency to the bowling lanes.

all i have to say is CLINT EASTWOOD. WHY? WHY?!!!!

in spite of our close encounter with death by douchebaggery, i left boston the next morning with a v. happy tummy and a heart full of squee. thanks for being so fabulous, george and jenny!! and thanks for being so FULL OF TASTY BUSINESS, boston! i will be back for seconds v. soon!!!

LINKS

ten awesome moments from sesame street!! yay!!!

the new yeah yeah yeahs video is KILLER. and yes that is a pun. and it was intended.

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