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More Boston suggestions: Parker's in the Omni ParkerHouse is a dark men's-clubby place that claims to have invented Boston Cream Pie (yellow cake, vanilla custard and chocolate) Herrell's in Harvard Square has the best ice cream (opened by Steve Herrell after he sold Steve's) and the Renoir painting Bal a Bougival was the partial inspiration for the poem I had published in The Iowa Review.