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How to get a quick seat at a famous restaurant
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kay, it’s a big chain with its own supermarket brand, and one of the best-known seafood restaurants on the East Coast. So what’s so secret about Legal Sea Foods? That there’s one in Copley Place. While frustrated tourists and convention-goers line up endlessly for tables at the Prudential Center location just across the street, in-the-know locals cruise across the bridge into Copley for a table and some chowder and scrod with no waiting and a great view through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the South End’s rustic rooftops and charming cobblestones. Kutz
Shhhh! The chain began as a seafood shop in Inman Square in Cambridge named for “Legal Stamps,”
a popular Green Stamps-style loyalty bonus shoppers could collect and use for goods and discounts.
a popular Green Stamps-style loyalty bonus shoppers could collect and use for goods and discounts.
Shhh who knew
There’s no such fish as scrod. The word refers to cod or haddock under two pounds.
100 Huntington Ave.
Back Bay
Boston,
MA,
02116
617.266.7775
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