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Shake Shack - 85 Seaport Blvd, Boston, MA 02210 - Decent burger and good shakes
Ben & Jerry's - 85 Seaport Blvd, Boston, MA 02210 - Good ice cream
Yo! Sushi - 85 Seaport Blvd - International (London-based) conveyor belt sushi chain
Better Bagels - One Seaport Square - The hand-formed bagels that are boiled then baked, supposedly the answer to the longtime gripes about the quality of bagels in Boston. Situated right under the Seaport hotel, so it will give J. Pace & Son a run for their breakfast sandwich dominance at PAX. Might not open until after PAX 2017.
Tuscan Kitchen - One Seaport Square - Won't open until Summer 2017. 320-seat location serving pasta, thin-crust Neapolitan pizza, and other Italian cuisine.
Sorelle Bakery & Cafe - 100 Northern Ave - 3rd location in Boston, serving its lineup of coffee, tea, and other beverages, as well as pastries and other breakfast items like quiches, egg sandwiches, steel-cut oatmeal and bagels. The cafe also offers lunch options from soups and salads to an extensive list of sandwiches (both pressed and not) and wraps, and it makes its own sauces, dressings, and spreads from scratch.
CHLOE - 101 Seaport Boulevard - Fast casual 48-seat vegan. Serves fresh pasta, salads, soups, cold-pressed juices, and grab-and-go items. There’s also dairy-free ice cream in virtuous flavors like Kale Cookies + Cream.
Aceituna Grill - 101 Seaport Blvd - 2nd Boston location. Mediterranean fare with a fast-casual feel. Get your shawarma on.
Yoki Sushi - 101 Seaport Blvd - 2nd Boston location
La Casa Pedro - 505 Congress St - Offers a mix of tapas and larger entree; a big variety of hearty meat- and seafood-based dishes that each come with several sides. Inspired by Venezuelan cuisine.
Chipotle - 51 Boston Wharf Road - Dine if you dare
Also, slightly further away, no longer in Seaport, Eataly has opened a Back Bay location.
Here's an interesting map showing growth of Seaport. Lots of new big buildings going up, with their planned ground floor tenants. Lots of great existing restaurants also not on this map.
Friday and Sunday badges are still available.
East also has the least hotels available, which is much more of a limiting factor than the badges even now. Most of the hotels suck and are far away from the con. Every year I see hotels fill up before badges sell out, or people wait on badges due to not having a good hotel plan.
The hotel situation makes it harder to sell, even at face value, badges later on. No one can get a hotel late in the game, so there aren't people still trying to get badges in the month before the con. They have little resale value.
There will be more attendees overall at this PAX. People were buying 3-day badges and only using them for 2 days. Now, the max badgeholders will show up every single day, so overall unique attendee count will get a slight bump, while turnstile count should be stagnant. There's no increase in space or fire marshal count changes to my knowledge.
But this year I'll be transitioning in as Tabletop lead for PAX East, then starting in 2018, it'll be my show to run.
I used to worry about "all good things must come to and end," and when would that happen to PAX? Well there's one way to keep it good. Do it yourself.