“That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.” - Charles Bukowski

Two weeks ago B and I went to Boston with his entire family to visit his little bro, DTB (currently a junior at Boston University), and celebrate his 21st birthday.  We arrived Friday night for a late dinner in the hotel bar before heading out for beers at Bukowski Tavern.  The beers were fantastic - pumpkin ale on draft!! - and we had a great time, but we were definitely hurting for the 11:00 a.m. Duck Tour the Saturday morning.

 [in-laws on the Duck Tour]

[view from the Charles River]

After the Duck Tour we stopped for lunch at Stephanie's on Newberry.  For starters B and I split clam chowder.

It was deliciously creamy and worked nicely when paired with the tower of onion rings...

After just a "light" round of starters I had the thanksgiving lunch special.

A piece of rye bread topped with turkey, cranberry sauce and gravy and served with mashed potatoes.  Hello food coma.

After a full day of shopping we had dinner at B&G Oysters.  We had a few bottles of champagne...

paired with oysters for an army (there was another where this came from)...

After the oysters, B and I started by splitting a light and crisp pear salad...

and an order of fried oysters with house-made tartar sauce (clearly the two trays of raw oysters weren't enough)...

Our fabulous starters were followed by fried clams for B...

and a lobster roll for me.

Both were seriously good, as were the butter pickles and the coleslaw.  Although we were all stuffed after dinner, we found room for a bite of dessert to celebrate the little buddy's birthday.

After dinner we headed for a night cap at Delux Cafe.

It was a really cool dive bar with indie music playing and an awesome Elvis tribute wall.

All and all we had a great, though quick, trip to Bean Town.  Can't wait to go back again soon.  Happy birthday DTB!!