Newbury Street Outdoor Activity / Shopping Area

Back Bay, Boston –

An eight-block stretch containing some of the city’s best high-end shopping, restaurants, and cafés, Newbury Street is sometimes referred to as the Rodeo Drive of the East.

Hidden under water until 1860 when part of the Boston Harbor was filled in to create the Back Bay neighborhood, the street is now a bustling thoroughfare of affluent Bostonians shopping, eating, and taking in the sights and sounds with the city’s upper crust.

Fashionable young women spend lazy afternoons browsing at chains like Anthropologie (799 Boylston Street), designer boutiques like Marc Jacobs (81 Newbury Street), or the occasional small vintage clothing and jewelry shop like Poor Little Rich Girl (166 Newbury Street) and Small Pleasures (142 Newbury Street), while warm weather sees trendsetting ladies and their stylish boyfriends relaxing over coffee or cocktails at outdoor cafés like The Otherside Café (407 Newbury Street).

Students from nearby Berklee College of Music pour into the area for drinks and to peruse the excellent selection of comics and new and used records at Newbury Comics (332 Newbury Street), but the area’s real nightlife centers around the plentiful but pricey restaurants and bars including Capital Grille (359 Newbury Street) and Sonsie (327 Newbury Street), an Italian restaurant and wine bar that attracts everyone from tourists to older businessmen and daters.

With a lively atmosphere and impeccable taste, Newbury Street remains the standard for Boston’s shopaholics.