Man from Scotland visiting Boston

Hey all you awesome people! I am hoping that some of you can help me out here with some advice on visiting Boston in September. My and my family are coming from Scotland and have been researching, as it’s part of the fun pre-vacation, about what to do and what to see.

We are doing an east coast road trip and have allocated around 4 days in Boston. Can you guys give me any local pointers on what we absolutely must see when we are here. We are a family of 4 with a 6 year old and 16 year old. This is our first time in Massachusetts (we usually go to Florida in the summer)

We love eating American cuisine while we are in the US as it is the one thing we don’t get to experience when in Europe.

So what would be your recommendations of:

• things to do/places to see (that the kids would also enjoy)
• food to try/restaurants you can vouch for
• area of Boston to stay in for the 4 days

I know there are other posts a bit like this but I couldn’t find anything current that answered my questions. If it is annoying to see these sorts of posts then I am sorry if it offends, we are just super excited to visit your city and want to make sure we see everything it has to offer.

Many many thanks in advance for any recommendations and I promise I will pay it forward to anyone that is visiting my home town in the future.

Peace!