Gosh, maybe you've not heard yet? Yankee fans are stopped at the MA border & turned away. They won't allow you anywhere near the Langham! rofl :) GO SOCKS!

The Langham is in the old Fed Reserve Building. I've not had the Chcolate Bar but have had a bite at the Julien Bar. I ordered a grilled salmon appetizer & it arrived at my table on its very own little hibachi still being cooked. While the salmon was grilling my waiter made a cucumber/dill sauce tableside. His knife skills were as snazzy as at the Japanese Steak Houses. It was a totally awesome experience. The Julien is in the old Fed Govenor's reception room. Even without the great food, it's worth going just to wander around the building.

/tricia

Eileen,
I used to work there. It was the Hotel Meridian, then. The chocolate buffet got started when management noticed that some guest's of the wildly popular Sunday brunch came only for the dessert's. It was held in the Cafe Fleuri. The brunch was not your average brunch! It was fantastic and I loved working it. I made great money! On Mother's day they had 3 seatings and I worked them all. I walked out with 460 bucks that day. And this was in 1980, maybe? 81? The brunch cost only 28 dollars back then. The dessert table was beautiful, lots of chocolate things. But other kind of dessert's, as well. The Floating Island's were very popular.
I'm not that big of a chocolate eater but the best chocolate in the hotel was the small, dark chocolate pieces that came with the bill. OMG! To die for!

I think the Sunday brunch cost 50 dollars, now. The chocolate buffet is held on Saturday's and it has every kind of chocolate dessert you can think of!

At the time they had a fancier restaurant in the hotel called Julienne. The food was exquisite. I used to pick up cocktail shifts, sometimes. Big money.

I think the hotel has an outdoor patio now. It's a very pretty hotel. And, IIRC, it used to be a bank?

Boston is a great city! Very pretty and very easy to get around. You can walk everywhere. Spring is really nice, late Spring. The Public Gardens are in bloom and Commonwealth Avenue is loaded with Magnolia trees and cherry blossom trees, too.

If you come you should definitely go to Lockober's. It's off of Winter St, near downtown crossing and the Boston Common It an old school restaurant taken over by noted chef, Lydia Shire. She kept most of the old menu items, but gave them a few updated tweaks. As recently as the late 70's, women were not allowed in the bar. Lydia Shire got her start at the Bostonian Hotel working with Jasper White. He's had quite a few rest.'s, wrote some cookbooks and his Summer Shack restaurant is very good and loads of fun, too.

The new Liberty Hotel has a couple hot spots, right now. There is the bar called The Alibi. It's sits in what used to be the drunk tank. The hotel was once the Charles Street Jail. ;) And the restaurant Clink is hot right now. When the developer wanted to buy the jail he also needed more space. The lone holdout was a local institution, hole in wall, greasy spoon walk up, called Buzzy's Roast Beef. He finally sold it to the developer but it cost him a pretty penny! I spent many a night at the window at Buzzy's. Nobody would eat there unless they had a mighty fine buzz on! One of the restaurant's in the hotel is promising to add a Buzzy's roast beef sandwich!

For something different you could check out the Leather District, lots of cool places on South Street (and it's within walking distance of Chinatown) Les Zygomates Bistro is always mobbed.
Then there's Sonsie on Newbury Street, still the place to be seen and the outdoor sidewalk patio should be open by now.
Heading over to Harvard Square in Cambridge is fun and Upstairs at the Pudding is a lovely place with great food. East Coast Grill has wonderful food and is a really fun place to go.

All Star Sandwich in Cambridge would be a good place for you to check out. I know you want to open a sandwich place.

Back in Boston, a seat at the oyster bar at the Union Oyster House (the oldest restaurant in America) can't be beat. Grab a beer and a platter of clams or oysters or even a bowl of Clam Chowda. Skip the restaurant, though. Plenty of other's are better. Great spot for people watching. And if you like oysters and other raw bar fare, Neptune Oyster in the North End (like your Little Italy) is grand!

You can google all of these places and see the menu's. Plus the drink menu's. I know you have a fondness for specialty martini's ;)

More than you asked for, I know. I hope you come and have a wonderful time, Eileen.

Silly

WOW Silly thanks for the great tips and information Im thinking of Boston for my anniversary weekend getaway this year ...last year we did Newport RI which was great. TRICIA ...I have the perfect shirt to wear to the pubs when I get up there.i'll have to DIG IT UP (get it)!! Oh yeh its got a rip in it maybe my PINSTRIPE SUIT will work..hmmm just pondering my thoughts!! LOL!!!!!!!!! LETS GO YANKEES!!!

Have you not heard EILEEN?? The RED SOX WON...give honor where honor is due..;)