![]() The lobster rolls came with a brioche bun which was warmed up and a bit crispy. ![]() I believe if you notice the number of lobster pieces in your bisque, it has started down the road to failure. My wife had one or two lobster pieces more than my two pieces in my bisque. It was not as Capital as the one we often enjoy at a favorite restaurant. The lobster rolls were the talk of a Chicago TV show, “Chicago’s Best,” about local eateries. My wife and I got their famous lobster rolls and lobster bisque. I thought the prices were quite high, maybe because it claims to have fresh seafood, which is a trick in the Midwest. If you paid by credit card there was a 3% surcharge. You ordered from the cashier, but the food is brought by a server. The restaurant is was more a fish market with meat cases and tables set up inside and outside. ![]() On August 4, the Fish Pier takes on a festive atmosphere when the Boston Seafood Festival takes over for its eighth edition.The place is almost at the end of a dead-end street. The former administration building and auction house is now known as the Exchange Conference Center, and hosts a variety of events, from weddings to business meetings. Another event securing its preservation was the Fish Pier’s listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.īesides amenities for its intended purpose, Fish Pier is also home to a landmark-within-a-landmark, the No Name Restaurant, which has served ultra-fresh seafood dishes to hungry fishermen and visitors alike since 1917. Massport, an independent public agency that manages much of the waterfront along with Logan Airport, has since expended many resources to update and renovate Fish Pier, insuring its continued use as the flagship for the region’s fishing industry for generations to come. For much of the 20th century, the fishing business at the pier was booming, peaking in 1963 with a total catch of 339 million pounds.Ĭoncerns about its aging infrastructure, however, led to the sale of the pier by its owner, the Boston Fish Market Association, to the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), in 1972. When the Fish Pier made its official debut, it contained berths for 40 fishing vessels, with the capacity to have more than 80 boats unload simultaneously. The structure also housed an eight-story cold storage facility, since demolished along with a bygone power plant, that was said to have been the largest in the world. Two years later, two large buildings were constructed along opposite sides of the pier to house fish dealers and other related marine businesses, along with an administration and auction building at the end of the pier. For more than a century, though, the Boston Fish Pier-the country’s oldest working edifice of its kind-has stood as a reminder of the area’s seagoing past.īegun in 1910 and originally known as Pier 6, Boston Fish Pier was slated to replace the smaller, downtown piers that had been the center of the fishing industry in the Hub. ![]() Boston’s Seaport District along the waterfront of South Boston has undergone a dramatic shift in recent years, evolving from acres and acres of windswept parking lots to a city-within-a-city filled with hotels, restaurants, nightlife destinations, brew pubs, an art museum, a federal courthouse, a cinema and more.
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