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Venus Seafood in Boston


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In the early '90s I used to go to a place called Venus Seafood in Boston. It was just across the water from South Station near the Computer Museum. I was a poor graduate student at the time and Venus offered the perfect combination of being accessible by the T and being inexspensive. There was seafood at one end, beer at the other, and rows of picnic tables in between.

I understand that Venus was forced to close when a bridge extending off I-93 was built right through it. It's probably a long shot, but do you have any idea if they relocated or re-opened under a different name?

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Dear Vengroff--

I sent you a long (brilliant!) reply earlier this week, but it was early in my navigation of the web site and apparently it didn't post. So sorry!

No, I never heard of Venus and unfortunately have no information on whether it might have relocated. I searched in vain for a real chowder house or clam shack in the Boston area, and came up empty handed - though I certainly could have missed something good. I heard that the No Name used to be great, but had slipped in recent years, so I didn't visit it. So many great places have gone the way of the Venus - doomed by developers, either governmental or capitalistic - and its especially likely to happen, of course, in an urban area. That's one reason I wrote this book - to champion the cause of the little guys who hang on in spite of those kinds of obstacles!

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Legal Seafoods, Joyce Chen, and that curious diner in a railcar were the staples when I was at MIT lsate 60's.

Later Biba's dining rooms. Durgen Park (beans and Indian Pudding) for tourists.

Are they still serving I wonder?

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