MovieChat Forums > The Equalizer (2014) Discussion > Anyone from Boston?

Anyone from Boston?

posted 8 years ago by tigerbonewan
6 replies | jump to latest

I lived there for almost 30 years and I never once found an all night diner, like the one where so much of this movie takes place. I would have LOVED to know of a place like that one - can't tell you how many late nights me and my buds had to pick something out of a gas station convenience store freezer to nuke. It's one of many reasons I've always told anyone who will listen that you don't want to live in that cr_ppy city. Anybody know of a place anything like the one in the movie? In a neighborhood where you'd feel safe ? I've noticed that for the last 20 years it's been real fashionable to set movies in Boston, but they always miss something. If you haven't lived there, you might think a city its size would have actual urban amenities that you take for granted in almost any other American city, but you'd be wrong. Living in Boston is like, you have to pay for it like it was New York but it feels more like Pine Bluff Arkansas.

[–] cmpresador 8 years ago

I live in Youngstown Ohio and we have all night diners like that in this dump of a town and it's small compared to Boston

[–] mathmaniac 8 years ago

I beg to differ.

There are lots of diners and small food places in Boston. My own gripe is breakfasts.
I was in Washington, D.C. (at least a decade ago) and could not find a place that just served breakfast. Ham and eggs, that kind of stuff. I had to call my brother who LIVED in the area - to be told that I should find a hotel. That's where you look to eat breakfast.

Boston has plenty of places when you want to have someone else scramble your eggs and hash brown your potatoes!

Go to Yelp. With the Boston area as your location, type in 'all night diner' and you will get plenty of results. If it were me, I'd be in an all-night diner but I'd be ordering eggs, bacon, toast, hash browns, and strong black coffee. Now, THAT'S a diner.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I never got the impression that place was open 24 hours. It looked like normal dinner hours when Robert and Alina dined there. That being said, a quick Yelp search turned up South Street Diner as a 24h diner in Boston. New York is more known for its after hours diner culture. Egg creams and bagels at 3 am!

[–] Filmtenk (78) 6 years ago

There’s a 24 hour diner in Dorchester but I forget the name. One thing I love about diners in MA, you can almost always get baked beans on the side.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 6 years ago

Then the OP hasn’t looked very hard. Mondo’s is an all-night diner next to Faneuil Hall. It’s been there for years. Also, every restaurant in Chinatown is open till 4 AM, and they’ll serve you beer till they close if you ask Cold Tea. You want eggs? Egg Fu Yung choices.

Parking tip: park ACROSS THE STREET from the arch at the entrance to Chinatown. Parking in Chinatown is cutthroat. Parking across the street? Lots of space.

All these options are right Downtown, not out in The Sticks.

Early-morning real (not Dunkin Donuts/McBurger) options in Greater Boston without paying a lung and an eyeball in a hotel? Dempsey’s Breakfast and Lunch, in Boston suburb Everett. There’s a large municipal parking lot behind the building. Hours are 6 AM to 2 PM, and I have no fiduciary interest in this chain (there’s also one in Medford).

OP The Hub City is crappy? You don’t belong here.

[–] apocryphiliac (5) 4 years ago

There are plenty of Dunkin’ Doughnuts! Or at least there used to be... I haven’t been to Boston for over 20 years. I wish that McColl would’ve just been hanging out at a Dunkin’!