Long Wharf Area Restaurants - Boston
 

Hi, everyone - my husband and I will be staying at the Marriott Long Wharf in the fall. I've been searching for restaurants but am having trouble orienting myself. Can you recommend a great seafood place, Italian restaurant, and a nice place to get dessert/coffee/gelato in the area? Also can you let me know if your rec requires reservations? Thanks for any help you can provide.

I know that it is a chain, but I like Legals Seafood. There are several location in Boston. There is one right at the Long Wharf. You need reservations.

Legal Seafoods is right there and as said, while a chain, still gets consistently good reviews, if it's a nice day also has outdoor deck which may or may not still be open.

You are a very short walk to the North End.
Depending on the restaurant, you may or may not need reservations. We ate at one of our regular spots Piccolo Nido the other night (on North St) the food is exc and reasonably priced (we think) and they will accomodate and make whatever - made one of our guests something that was not on the menu b/c she had a craving and if it is a night with soup specials, their soups are great.

In the North End we also like La Summa, Rabia's, Prezzo - there are tons of restaurants and it is also fun to walk and read menus and then choose -

you can also use www.opentable.com to see some menus and make advance reservations, it's a great free service online which doesn't have every restaurant in Boston (or the other cities it serves) but has many and might give y ou a good start.

Dessert, coffee, gelato: again , walk to the North End to Mike's, Maria's or Modern Pastry ( the waiter at Piccolo Nido is a pastry chef at Modern, so two fo their desserts are the same as Moderns)

We usually walk after dinner and then find dessert or gelato at one of the bakeries along the street- you will see Vittorio's and others as you walk and pick what you like -

also if you type into the search this forum bar at the top of the page "north end" and "restaurants, north end, boston" and things like that you will see a ton of threads pop up on the left with a zillion threads naming peoples favorite restaurants.

In Faneuil Hall there is McCormicka nd Schmidts , - I don't eat seafood but my friends like it there as well. My husbands favorite mussels in Boston are in Mistral, a restaurant you can also see online and read menu, etc (they also own Sorrelino, Teatro, and the new Mooo steak house which replaced the Federalist, seomthing I still can't think about :(

You can also do a seafood search and will see B & G and Neptune Oyster mentioned a lot, other places my seafood family and friends enjoy tremendously.

Right across the street from your hotel is Sel de la Terre, a really excellent French bistro.

For a real experience in the North End, eat at the Daily Catch on Hanover Street, conveniently located right across the street from Mike's Pastry.
It seats 20 people and no reservations, but it turns over rapidly.

Cash only, but there is an ATM about two doors down, so one member of the party can leave the others as a hostage and slip down to get the money you need if you run short.

The menu is on the wall and the wine is in paper cups, but the seafood and the pasta are as good as they get. They have the best calamari in the city, and their black pasta with white clam sauce is a symphony of fresh clams, olive oil, white wine and garlic. It isn't even on the menu, I think.

This is not to be confused with any other branch of the Daily Catch.

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone - also I am glad to know I am on the North End as that helps me know where to focus my search. Looks like Boston has some great food to offer!

Don't forget the Union Oyster House, which is the oldest restaurant in Boston.