A friend visiting from the west coast wants to try them. Other than Durgin Park, I have no idea where to take him for them. (Except NOT to the Parker House—they might have invented Boston Cream Pie, but I have heard only negative reviews of their current version.)

Any other recommendations?

Suggestions for places on the North Shore that serve one or both are especially welcome!

I see no reason to bother with either, but Durgin Park seems like about the only choice for baked beans (other than buying a can at the store). Ditto for the Omni Parker House and Boston Cream Pie. These are nostalgia dishes at this point and I don't think I've ever seen them on any restaurant menu (other than the above).

We had baked beans served with our breakfast in June bit can't remember where we ate but it was pretty basic and good. Used to have them served with meals on the Cape when we were younger.

Try B&M canned beans. As close as you can come from a a can

You can buy Boston cream pie in Market Basket bakery departments but I don't know how good it is. I think Bush's baked beans are more like homemade. Breakwind Farm sells baked beans at farmers markets. According to their website, they are at the farmers market in Newburyport. You can freeze baked beans if you have to buy them ahead of your friend's visit.
http://www.breakwindfarm.com/#events-link

If you go to the the top floor of Durgin Park ( maybe enter the elevator from the bar?) there is/was a civilized dining room that dispensed with all the tourist crabby waitress stuff. In addition to baked beans and cream pie, they had Indian pudding (yum) and coffee jello, which may be delicious but sounds too revolting to try!

" Breakwind Farm sells baked beans "

Legal Seafood has boston cream pie on their dessert menu, and its pretty good.

I don't know any place to get good baked beans.

I had the baked beans at Durgin Park and couldn't tell the difference from good canned baked beans like Bush's.

Flour Bakery makes a version of Boston Cream Pie and it gets good reviews.

" had the baked beans at Durgin Park and couldn't tell the difference from good canned baked beans like Bush's."

Derain Park tasted More like B&M to me, but a baked bean is a baked bean. The best I ever had was for breakfast at the Littleton Diner in Littleton, NH.

You can get good baked beans if you go to the right church or grange suppers. There should be at least two kinds, a small bean like navy or pea or maybe even yellow eye and a dark kidney bean. The beans taste different. I recently bought some dried beans that are supposed to be the kind that was used in Maine logging camps.

I agree that possibly the next best place to find baked beans might be at a good diner for breakfast.

Thanks to those who offered input on restaurant options.

We ended up going to Durgin Park, and my friend was quite pleased, as they had his Boston Wish-List Trifecta: Boston Baked Beans, Boston Cream Pie, and "Boston Clam Chowder". He was equally pleased with the quality of the food, mainly the chowder (surprisingly peppery, but in a good way) and beans (surprisingly sweet, but the more he ate the more he liked them). Of the pie he said "It's not really worth making a special trip across the country for it, but since I was here anyway it was OK." I tasted the pie and have to agree—although the chocolate ganache on top was great, the filling and the cake itself were sorta average.

As for other options, we discovered that the Agawam Diner in Rowley has Boston Cream Pie on Fridays and Boston Baked Beans on Saturdays. We also discovered that there is a Mike's Pastry in Gloucester, and they have BCP. So good for future reference.

I should add that my friend was sufficiently pleased with Durgin Park that he said we might need to return there in the days to come.

Also, we did not have a grumpy waitress—we had a waiter (I didn't know they even had waiters) who was quite cheerful. We sat by the bar upstairs, though, and heard several grumpy waitresses when they came to pick up drink orders!

Durgin Park is a real Boston experience!

Glad Durgin Park was a hit. I haven't been in a few years but I remember going for lunch as part of a school field trip. No wonder the waitresses were grumpy.