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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 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 named twice the best place to live by money magazine.
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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 tends to be more uber drivers than lyft.
- Cabs have to dispatched, you can't hail them.
- There are basically 3 area's of Nashua. Downtown, South Nashua, and North.
- Most people in nashua reference these places based on their exits on Route 3.
- Downtown mostly has mom and pop stores (exit 4,5,6)
- South end has the mall (exit 1,2)
- North end has a bunch of offices, and strip malls (exit 7,8)
- There are green bikes for rent in town. You can use an app to ride them around
- The busses are fantastic. View the schedule online.
- There is a free "trolly" on Friday's and Saturday's that runs through downtown, and around the parking garages.
Murals
The city of Nashua has a bunch of awesome murals. You can see where all the murals 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.
- Terragia
- Bonhoeffers
- Jaja Belles
- City Moose Cafe
- Pressed Cafe
- Great Harvest Bread Company
- Seedling Cafe
- Riverwalk Cafe
Bars
Nashua has a load of bars. Generally speaking they are open until 2am, 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 are 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
Lunch
- Nashua Garden - Deli in a bar
- California Burrito
- Cedars cafe - Mediterranean affair
- Crane - Chinese
- Fratello's - Italian
- Giant of Siam - Thai
- El Colima - Mexican
- Caza Mescal - Mexican
- City room cafe
- Poor Pierres
- 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
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.