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Aura
Member Rating: 1.5 | Reserve Online
Map | Simplicity and seasonality are the keys to this waterfront restaurant...
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American
South Boston
 
Blue Room
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Map | Totally hip, funky, and Cambridge, the Blue Room blends a host...
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American
Cambridge
 
Butcher Shop
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Map | Chef Barbara Lynch has remade the classic meat market as a polished...
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American
South End
 
Centre Street Café
Member Rating: 3.4
Map | It's impossible not to love J. P.'s funky and fun hangout...
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American
Jamaica Plain
 
Durgin Park Market Dining Room
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Map | You should be hungry enough to cope with enormous portions, yet...
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American
Faneuil Hall
 
East Coast Grill and Raw Bar
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Map | Owner-chef-author Chris Schlesinger built his national reputation...
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American
Cambridge
 
Eastern Standard Kitchen and Drinks
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Map | A vivid red awning beckons those entering this spacious brasserie-style...
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American
Kenmore Square
 
Franklin Café
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Map | This place has jumped to the head of the class by keeping things...
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American
South End
 
Full Moon
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Map | Here's a happy reminder that dinner with children doesn't have...
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American
Cambridge
 
Green Street
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Map | The tables are small and the service is casual, but the relatively...
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American
Cambridge
 
Publick House
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Map | What started as a simple neighborhood beer bar has reached cultlike...
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American
Brookline
 
Silvertone
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Map | Devotees of this hip basement restaurant swear by the no-fuss...
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American
Downtown
 
Sonsie
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Map | Café society blossoms along Newbury Street, particularly...
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American
Back Bay
 
Union Bar and Grille
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Map | There's rarely a quiet night at Union, where the bar buzzes with...
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American
South End
 
West Side Lounge
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Map | Understated is the buzzword at this relaxed but suave bistro...
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American
Cambridge
 
banQ
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Casually chic patrons sit at candlelit tables at this former...
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Asian Fusion
South End
 
Chau Chow City
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Map | Spread across three floors, this is the largest, glitziest, and...
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Chinese
Chinatown
 
Grand Chau Chow
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Map | Chau Chow (or Chaozhou, in China) is the term for people from...
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Chinese
Chinatown
 
Imperial Seafood House
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Map | On the first floor is a wonderful (and seldom crowded) Cantonese...
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Chinese
Chinatown
 
Jumbo Seafood
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Map | Although this Cantonese/Hong Kong-style restaurant has much to...
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Chinese
Chinatown
 
Lucky Garden
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Map | A modest holdover from the first golden period of Szechuan food...
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Chinese
Cambridge
 
Chez Henri
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Map | French with a Cuban twist -- odd bedfellows, but it works for...
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Eclectic
Cambridge
 
Conundrum
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Map | Hidden down a narrow alley, this tiny, red-hued space sports...
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Eclectic
Cambridge
 
Elephant Walk
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Map | The chef of this popular Cambodian-French fusion house, Langtaine...
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Eclectic
Cambridge
 
Elephant Walk
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Map | Technically this outpost of Elephant Walk (the other is in Cambridge)...
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Eclectic
Brookline
 
Les Zygomates
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Map | Les zygomates is the French expression for the muscles on the...
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French
Downtown
 
Ten Tables
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Map | Jamaica Plain's postage-stamp-size, candlelit boîte is...
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French
Jamaica Plain
 
Bukhara
Member Rating: 3.0
Map | The helpful staff here guides you through a menu that spans the...
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Indian
Jamaica Plain
 
Rangoli
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Map | Most of what Americans think of as Indian food is decidedly northern...
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Indian
Allston
 
Rani
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Map | One of Brookline's more-unusual restaurants serves excellent...
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Indian
Brookline
 
Tamarind Bay
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Map | This tiny, subterranean space is brick lined and warm -- a cozy...
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Indian
Cambridge
 
Matt Murphy's Pub
Member Rating: 3.8
Map | Boston has dozens of Irish pubs, but very few are notable for...
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Irish
Brookline
 
Antico Forno
Member Rating: 3.0 | Reserve Online
Map | Many of the menu choices come from the eponymous wood-burning...
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Italian
North End
 
Bella Luna
Member Rating: 3.6
Map | Sci-fi jokes are sprinkled across this spot's spaced-out menu...
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Italian
Jamaica Plain
 
Bricco
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Map | A sophisticated but unpretentious enclave of nouveau Italian...
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Italian
North End
 
Carmen
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Map | Here's the kind of undeniably friendly, downright cute hole-in-the-wall...
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Italian
North End
 
Croma
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Map | Of all the sidewalk patios on Newbury, Croma's has the best view...
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Italian
Back Bay
 
Mamma Maria
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Map | Don't let the clichéd name fool you: Mamma Maria is far...
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Italian
North End
 
Marco
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Map | The second-story dining room is meant to evoke a charming Italian...
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Italian
North End
 
Mare
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Map | Anchoring a tucked-away corner on Richmond Street, this organic...
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Italian
North End
 
Pomodoro
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Map | This teeny trattoria -- just eight tables -- is worth the wait...
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Italian
North End
 
Ristorante Euno
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Map | Tiny and friendly, Euno is the North End's culinary mouse that...
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Italian
North End
 
Sage
Member Rating: 4.4
Map | Intensely fragrant Italian specialties and a pretty dining room...
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Italian
South End
 
Terramia
Member Rating: 4.8 | Reserve Online
Map | Nearly everything this little autumnal-color restaurant kicks...
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Italian
North End
 
Fugakyu
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Map | The name sounds vaguely offensive in English, but in Japanese...
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Japanese
Brookline
 
Ginza
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Map | One of Chinatown's best restaurants -- and one of Boston's best...
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Japanese
Chinatown
 
Ginza
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Map | The two Ginzas (there's one in Chinatown) are thought to have...
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Japanese
Brookline
 
Choe's Café
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Map | The food here is outstanding -- kept honest by Korean students...
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Korean
Allston
 
Penang
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Map | Penang is a resort island with a history like that of nearby...
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Malaysian
Chinatown
 
Baraka Café
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Map | Tiny Baraka may be atmospherically challenged, but after a few...
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Mediterranean
Cambridge
 
Casablanca
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Map | Long before The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Harvard and Radcliffe...
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Mediterranean
Cambridge
 
Copia
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Map | This Mediterranean grill covers almost all the gustatorial bases...
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Mediterranean
Charlestown
 
Dante
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Map | With one of the best patio views of the Charles River, Dante...
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Mediterranean
Cambridge
 
Oleana
Member Rating: 3.0 | Reserve Online
Map | Chef and owner Ana Sortun is one of the city's culinary treasures...
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Mediterranean
Cambridge
 
Olives
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Map | No longer will you see chef Todd English tending the wood-fire...
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Mediterranean
Charlestown
 
Tacos El Charro
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Map | Drag naysayers who claim that "Boston has no real Mexican restaurants"...
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Mexican
Jamaica Plain
 
The Helmand
Member Rating: 2.0
Map | The area's first Afghan restaurant is named after a province...
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Middle Eastern
Cambridge
 
Lala Rokh
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Map | Persian miniatures and medieval maps cover the walls of this...
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Middle Eastern
Beacon Hill
 
Persephone
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Set inside fashion boutique Achilles, this eco-friendly Fort...
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Modern American
South Boston
 
Sunset Café
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Map | The lively atmosphere here may make you feel as though you're...
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Portuguese
Cambridge
 
B & G Oysters, Ltd.
Member Rating: 2.3 | Reserve Online
Map | Chef Barbara Lynch (of No. 9 Park fame) has made yet another...
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Seafood
South End
 
Barking Crab Restaurant
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Map | It is, believe it or not, a seaside clam shack plunk in the middle...
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Seafood
South Boston
 
Daily Catch
Member Rating: 4.6
Map | You've just got to love this place -- for the noise, the intimacy...
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Seafood
North End
 
Legal Sea Foods
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Map | What began as a tiny restaurant upstairs over a Cambridge fish...
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Seafood
Downtown
 
Legal Sea Foods
Member Rating: 4.6
Map | What better place than the waterfront to build one of the snazziest...
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Seafood
Downtown
 
Legal Sea Foods
Member Rating: 4.8 | Reserve Online
Map | All the regional seafood classics, from famed New England chowder...
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Seafood
Cambridge
 
Lineage
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Map | Downtown is saturated with decent seafood options but few hit...
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Seafood
Brookline
 
Neptune Oyster
Member Rating: 5.0
Map | This tiny oyster bar, the first of its kind in the neighborhood...
$$-$$$
Seafood
North End
 
Turner Fisheries of Boston
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Map | On the first floor of the Westin hotel in Copley Square, Turner...
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Seafood
Back Bay
 
Union Oyster House
Member Rating: 4.8
Map | Established in 1826, this is Boston's oldest continuing restaurant...
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Seafood
North End
 
Village Fish
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Map | With one of the few raw bars west of Boston's waterfront, Village...
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Seafood
Brookline
 
Bob's Southern Bistro
Member Rating: 2.8
Map | Boston's home of genteel soul food and jazz attracts a mellow...
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Southern
South End
 
Magnolia
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Map | The heady scent of sizzling hush puppies mixes with the spice...
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Southern
Cambridge
 
Estragon
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The urbane, 1930s décor makes this South End Spanish restaurant...
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Spanish
South End
 
Taberna de Haro
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Map | Although Bostonians have already fallen for tapas, this is the...
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Spanish
Brookline
 
Toro
Member Rating: 4.0
Map | The buzz from chef Ken Oringer's tapas joint still hasn't quieted...
$$-$$$
Spanish
South End
 
Capital Grille
Member Rating: 4.2 | Reserve Online
Map | A carnivore's utopia awaits within these clubby, dark-wood walls...
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Steak
Back Bay
 
Grill 23 & Bar
Member Rating: 3.4 | Reserve Online
Map | Pinstriped suits, dark paneling, Persian rugs, and waiters in...
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Steak
Back Bay
 
Le's
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Map | Vietnamese noodle soup called pho is the name of the game in...
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Vietnamese
Cambridge


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