Take the Green Line T to Hynes Convention Center Stop; or the #1 Mass Ave. bus to Newbury Street. Trident is located on the first block of Newbury Street from the corner of Mass. Ave.
PAYMENT
POPULAR DISH
Perpetual breakfast ranging from eggs to lemon ricotta-stuffed French toast; mild bean chili with cashews; Trident fries (sweet potatoes, beets.); lovely desserts and a reliable chunk of sour cream coffee cake big enough to get into and drive home.
UNIQUE DISH
Momos, traditional Tibetan dumplings served with salad and teriyaki and peanut dipping sauces.
DRINKS
The juice bar should meet most emotional, psychological, or physical needs, with offerings like Immune Builder, Slimmer, and Wheatgrass Hopper (although this reviewer has tiptoed warily around the ominously named Depression); also many loose teas, chai, smoothies, frappes, floats, wine, and beer.
SEATING
Two seating areas, one at the front for the window-watchers (see and be seen by the glitterati of Newbury St.) and another at the back for those requiring more seclusion; tables are perfect for two, and can be pushed together for larger groups; singles not requiring a table can cozy up to the juice bar with a choice of their enormous periodical selection ranging US
magazine to obscure foreign literary journals.
AMBIENCE/CLIENTELE
Clean, serene, welcoming, artsy, accepting of solitude or romance. Friendly staff will allow patrons to nestle into their tables for hours at a stretch, though on the busy weekend nights they'll have to order more than coffee - the place fills up fast when everything else in Boston closes; clientele includes dates (fi rst, last, and in-between), artists, writers, philosophical college types, bike couriers; warm, yellow walls with ever-changing art.
Extras/Notes
When Gail and Bernie Flynn opened the bookstore/café in the dog-eat-dog early 1980s, they wanted it to be a place where one could "sit down with a fine cup of coffee and linger over a
conversation or a book." As such, it's enormously successful, an embodiment of the Flynns' desire to live the Buddhist concept of right livelihood. On a street known for its glamour and material snobbishness, the Trident offers the perfect
antidote to the urban whirl. Be sure to check out the huge magazine selection, wander amid the tall stacks of thoughtfully chosen books, and try and figure out if that shaggy poet-type in the corner is scribbling a love letter or a manifesto.
