When the waiter pours chocolate from a little pitcher tableside, you can hear sighs around the room. Every parents weekend has to have a show-stopping celebrity moment. Blue Ginger could be yours. His restaurant, casual yet stylish, is closest to Wellesley College, Boston College, and Bentley, but a rental car and a map will get you and the folks there even if you go to Tufts. Call for reservations way early, and inquire as to whether the master will be in the house on the night in question.
Weekends are the best bets for a sighting.
You want your parents to understand your life. Which is, after all, mainly pizza. Take them to Emma's, the famous newly relocated pizzeria where plain cheese is only the beginning. Some of the more esoteric toppings include sweet potatoes and spinach, house-smoked chicken and onions, dried cranberries, hot cherry peppers, broccoli, and goat cheese, and more, much more. There are also pressed Italian sandwiches made on focaccia bread and bountiful salads.