The Forest Café

I can also tell you where to get the deadliest margarita in the Boston area.  No joke.  The Forest Café is between Porter and Harvard Square (close to Simon’s in fact) at 1682 Massachusetts Ave.  The food is also really delicious.  Nothing fancy, but consistent and surprisingly authentic Mexican cuisine.  It is a completely different atmosphere from Olé in Inman Square, which is of course also delicious.  Olé has better guacamole and more interesting dishes, but sometimes I just want something smothered in cheese and really good mole sauce, okay? But back to the margaritas.  Take warning: two is the limit.  I never have just two but I should always stop myself after two.  I should stop my friend Emily after two as well but I never do that either.  The first sip is your only indication that you are about to imbibe something furious.  After that first sip you are already on the sinking ship and you just don’t feel like jumping.

The Forest Café is also the best place to go during a snowstorm.  It seems to be a tradition now that Emily and I will go there when the schools are closed and we are sent home from work early.  Go home?  No.  Trek to the Forest Café, sit in their front window eating chips and salsa and guacamole, drinking margaritas, and watch the foot traffic on Massachusetts Avenue.   But it’s supposed to be spring (or summer?) now, so enough talk of snow.

It is also one of the better places to catch a red sox game.  The bar always has a few seats empty.  The bartender is always pleasant.  There is a juke box.  The person sitting next to you is bound to be friendly.

So, go.  Have a margarita.  Have three.  Have as many as you like.  Just make sure your autopilot knows the way home.