Oak Bar, expensive, (617) 267-5300 www.fairmont.com/copleyplaza.
Boston cream pie may have been invented at the Omni Parker House hotel restaurant, but we prefer the version served in the Fairmont Copley Plaza's dining room. Or, better yet, when we don't feel like getting quite so gussied up, we order a slice at the hotel's Oak Bar (which serves the restaurant's full steak-house menu).
Trident Booksellers & Café, inexpensive to moderate, (617) 267-8688, www.tridentbookscafe.com.
The selection of books and magazines at Trident is great, and the café's menu - which lists everything from frittatas to fish tacos to ice cream and doughnuts - is a real page-turner itself.

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Boston's Logan International Airport, (617) 561-1800, www.massport.com.
A distant foghorn and a symphony of croaking frogs and chirping crickets inside an airport? Yep. Unveiled in April, artist Christopher Janney's work covers eight stories and features giant colored-glass walls and piped-in sound images. Janney describes the installation as being "like an evening through the woods in New Hampshire."


There's another restaurant, Via Matta, right across the street from the Ritz. It's right around the corner from the Hermès store, and it has delicious Italian food.

Also, there is a chef in Boston named Ken Oringer who owns three restaurants. One of them is in the Eliot Hotel. It's called Clio and is amazing. Downstairs, he has a tiny sushi bar called Uni. There are only about six stools at the sushi bar and probably only tables. It is delicious. Everything is super, super fresh.

The parents of a friend of mine own  Durgin-Park, which is a traditional New England place.


Kelly's is a great fast-food seafood place. They have great clams and lobster rolls. They are famous for their lobster rolls. It's, like, a $40 lobster roll,  the most expensive lobster roll you will ever have.