Allston Heights
Allston Heights is the neighborhood that never quite shook its student reputation, even now — Yoma, Pavement Coffeehouse, Wai Kru Muay Thai, and 66 restaurants for a radius that skews heavily toward people who eat late and live simply.
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About this Neighborhood
Allston Heights exists in the permanent gravitational field of Boston University and Harvard's athletic facilities, which means high restaurant turnover, reliable coffee density, and a grocery situation that leans on Cheema's Super Market and Mayfair Food rather than Whole Foods. Sixty-six restaurants — above cohort — include the Burmese spot Yoma, Rock City Pizza, and Taqueria El Carrizal, the kind of mix that happens when students graduate and stick around because the rent was always the point. Pavement Coffeehouse and OneZo Tapioca at 18 coffee options sit above average. Wai Kru Muay Thai, Boston Martial Arts Center, and Allston Billiards in the fitness category reveal something the cohort data can't — this neighborhood has a subculture problem in the best sense. Social glue at 66. Seven parks including the Penniman Road Community Garden and Cunningham Park. The doppelganger match to Packard's Corner at 0.997 is geographically accurate: they're the same neighborhood, called different things.
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