![]() (It's a nice walk in good weather from the West, but the neighborhoods to the East are less scenic.) There are a number of Brazilian restaurants and stores around, including a Brazilian butcher-slash-convenience store. It is also a 15 minute walk from the Sullivan Square Orange Line station, and there are MBTA buses arriving from Sullivan, Central, Harvard, Porter, Davis, and Lechmere T stops. Options include Kelly's Diner, Sound Bites, Ball Square Cafe, True Grounds Coffeehouse and Lyndell's Bakery. Ball Square is the breakfast capital of Somerville. Head up this way if you're looking for good subs, burgers, and pizza (Broadway Eatery), Mexican food (Rudy's), or authentic Tibetan fair (House of Tibet).īall Square, On the Somerville/Medford Line. It's less crowded than Davis Square and less trendy. Teele Square, Just up the street from Davis Square (heading west) has a lot to offer in way of local restaurants. ![]() A number of restaurants serve everything from burgers to crepes to falafel to Indian to East Asian cuisine to fast food. Davis Square has several bars and coffeehouses, most notably the locally owned Diesel Cafe on Elm Street, that draw people day and night. The Somerville Theatre doubles as a second-run movie house and music venue, and also houses the Museum of Bad Art in the basement. Many Tufts University students linger in the brick plaza. It's right on the Red Line, and also a major bus transfer point. Licks, a trendy local ice cream shop (also seen on Newbury Street in Boston proper and elsewhere), Boston Burger Company, Mr Crepe, Flatbread Pizza Company (and bowling alley), and other restaurants. Despite these changes, the area continues to hang onto its neighborhood flavor and is home to a large community of Irish, Italians, Brazilians, Portuguese, Cape Verdeans, and other ethnic groups.ĭavis Square, This is a great late-night summer hangout, especially with J.P. Once known as the home base of Irish gangsters Whitey Bulger (long on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, now on trial for multiple murder counts), James "Buddy" McLean, Howie Winter and the notorious Winter Hill Gang, Winter Hill is now, like much of the rest of Somerville, experiencing gentrification and a resulting rise in property values and rents. Winter Hill, Located roughly north of Highland Avenue and west of the McGrath Highway, Winter Hill is home to a mix of restored homes and aluminium-sided fixer-uppers, replete with china gnomes and bathtub Virgin Marys. Many intersections have small plaques dedicating them as squares named after notable Somerville residents, frequently war veterans, but these areas are never actually referred to by those names. Navigating Somerville is easier if you consider the major squares as "hubs" connected by main streets as "spokes." The major squares include Davis Square, Teele Square, Powderhouse Square, Union Square, Magoun Square, and Ball Square. Somerville has a number of "squares", which are areas where several of the larger roads come together and which have various stores and parking. Other notable neighborhoods include Union Square and Winter Hill, erstwhile home of the "Winter Hill Gang", the organized crime group headed by Whitey Bulger in the 1960's and 1970's, as well as East Somerville, probably the last non-gentrified area, which has a substantial immigrant population. ![]() ![]() It is still the most densely populated city in New England (about 80,000 people in four square miles), so visitors will find lots of purely residential territory between the "fun" areas: Davis Square, Porter Square, Union Square, and Powderhouse Square (the location of Tufts University). It's fairly ethnically diverse, with Irish, Italians, Portuguese, Brazilians (probably the largest ethnic minority), Haitians, Tibetans, Indians, Chinese, and others. Somerville has managed to hold onto its blue-collar roots while at the same time gentrifying. ![]()
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