Evening Itineraries in Boston

If you're traveling as a family, you may be checking the TV listings for your evening plans. If not — or if you had the foresight to book a sitter — here are some suggestions.

• Dinner in the North End, and coffee and dessert at a caffè. Afterward, enjoy the view from Copp's Hill Terrace, between Charter and Commercial streets overlooking the harbor, or take in a show at the Improv Asylum. Wind down with a drink at the Cheers bar at Quincy Market.

• Summer only: Assemble a picnic and head to the Hatch Shell for music or a movie, to Boston Common for a play, or to City Hall Plaza for a concert.

• Shopping at the Coop or the Harvard Book Store, then dinner at Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage. Contemplate Harvard Yard from the Widener Library steps, and finish up with ice cream at JP Licks or Lizzy's, or a show at Club Passim (or both).

• Dinner at Oleana, followed by music at Scullers Jazz Club, the Regattabar, or Ryles Jazz Club.

• Dinner at Baraka Café, ice cream at Toscanini's, and music at the Middle East.

• A movie at the Kendall Square Cinema before or after dinner at Oleana, then music at the Cantab Lounge.

• Dinner at Redbones, and a show at the Somerville Theater.