A travel guide to Nashua, NH, USA

AKA The Gate City

Hello, and welcome to the gate city. We are happy you are visiting. Nashua is a a half hour drive from Manchester, and an hour drive to Boston and Portsmouth. We're famous for having a Dunder Mifflin branch in the show The Office. We were twice named one of the best places to live by Money magazine.

Travel Tips

We're only a half hour drive from the Manchester Airport. If you can, fly into Manchester. The airport is smaller, and the staff are friendly.
- Parking in Manchester is only $10/day compared to Boston which is $70 for the first day, and $30 for each additional.
We're about an hours drive from Boston's Logan airport.
We have Uber, also Lyft. There tend to be more Uber drivers than Lyft.
Cabs have to dispatched, you can't hail them.
There are basically 3 areas of Nashua: Downtown, South Nashua, and North Nashua.
- Most people in Nashua reference these places based on their exits on Route 3.
- Downtown mostly has mom and pop stores (exits 4, 5, and 6)
- South end has the mall (exits 1 and 2)
- North end has a bunch of offices, and strip malls (exits 7 and 8)
There are teal bikes for rent in town. You can use an app to ride them around.
The busses are fantastic. View the schedule online.

Murals

The city of Nashua has a bunch of awesome murals. You can see where all the murals are in this google map. Nashua's murals were made by Positive Street Art, a really cool non-profit in town

Coffee Land

We have quite a bit of coffee shops. However most of them close by 3. We have the standard Starbucks, and New Hampshire is known for loving Dunkin dounuts. However these are the coffee shops in town, with great coffee and food.

Bars

Nashua has a load of bars. Generally speaking they are open until 1am, and they are fantastic. This list will probably never be complete, but here are some local favorites.

MT's Wine and bar
The Peddler's Daughter
Nashua Garden
Codex
O'briens
San Francisco Kitchen
Riverwalk cafe
The Flight Center
Fuego bar and grill
Fody's Great American Tavern
Stella Blu
110 Grill
Martha's exchange

Food

There is quite a large range of food given the size of the city. Many restaurants are also coffee shops. Nashua's restaurants usually fall into two categories. Places that close at 3pm, and places that open at 5pm. Eating between the hours of 3-5pm is quite hard. Outside of this list, there are many chain restaurants in town, and the food court in the mall is usually good.

Breakfast

Riverwalk Cafe
Norton's Classic Cafe
Midfield Cafe
City Room Cafe
Poor Pierre's
Temple Street Diner
Nancy's Diner
City Moose Cafe

Lunch

Nashua Garden - Deli in a bar
California Burrito
Cedars Cafe - Mediterranean affair
City moose cafe
Crane - Chinese
Fratello's - Italian
Giant of Siam - Thai
El Colima - Mexican
Caza Mescal - Mexican
City Room Cafe
Poor Pierre's
Temple Street diner
Nancy's diner

Dinner

Stella Blu - Tapas in a bar setting
Peddler's Daughter - Irish bar and food
Riverwalk BBQ
Surf - Seafood
Martha's Exchange - American food, with beer brewed on site
Fratello's - Italian

Shopping

Incase you didn't know, New Hampshire has no sales tax! That means shopping doesn't come with extra costs. The Pheasant lane mall is one of the largest malls in NH. The nearby Merrimack outlets are home to several upscale outlet stores.

There are also several local businesses that are worth shopping at.

Clothing

Fresh of nashua
Dick Avard's Haberdashery
camaraderie boutique

Furnature/Household

We have the standard Lowes, and Home Depot. Both of which are quite nice, but here are other places in town you may not think of.

Great American Downtown

Nashua has a non-profit in town called Great American Downtown which is really focused on improving Nashua. They host, and coordinate many events in Nashua. Their calendar usually contains any events that are happening in town.

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