Day 19: Seafood, by any other Name, would taste just as good

I'm Adam Sell and I have two months left before I leave Boston. My challenge? Do something in the city every day. Have ideas for my adventure? Send me an email.

There are and will be some days throughout this project on which prior commitments make it impossible for me to get out and visit or do anything. For these days, I have set out to visit the site for that day ahead of time. This is one such entry — I completed it on July 18.

I like to know about places that other people don't, when it comes to eating. The best way for someone to get my attention when describing a pizza place or a bar is to call it a hole in the wall. That little feeling of "I'm cool because I know of this place" is really quite something.

Well, at the No Name Restaurant, even the backs of the waitstaff's shirts play with this concept. "I know the way!" they shout in big letters. (I would certainly hope they do know the way, seeing as how they work there.) But the prevailing vibe at the No Name is that this is where the locals go to eat seafood. Durgin Park might get the headlines, and the Union Oyster House might have the rep, but the No Name was the "insider's" seafood place.

And I love seafood. The Daily Catch set a very high bar, one that I didn't think any restaurant could meet, but three spoonfuls into the seafood chowder (no 'chowda', please, spell it right) and I was sold. And speaking of sold, the prices were solid, too. I made no pretense of eating "healthy," and tore through the fried seafood plate. I may have to head back before the summer is out to eat lobster. I've never done the full lobster thing before. The pictures on the placemats describing how to do it were quite amusing.

There's only one seafood place left on my must-do list for this project, Belle Isle Seafood in East Boston. But that can't be the last of the really good places in the city. Where else do I need to go? Send me an email, drop a comment below, or post on the Facebook group's webpage.