Legal Harborside

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Legal Harborside Review

Paying homage both to the waterfront legend it replaces—Jimmy's Harborside—and its own family-owned roots, Legal Harborside is an intentional one-off, three-floor, 20,000-square-foot facility unlike any other restaurant in the chain (and elsewhere). Level 3 is a polished rooftop bar and lounge with a sushi menu and copper-fronted fireplace, three walls of windows, and two patios overlooking the waterfront. Level 1 has a fish market, picniclike tables that evoke the feel of a dockside New England fish eatery (which it is, overlooking a marina), and a menu of seafood favorites with pizza and pasta thrown in for nonseafoodies. It's Level 2, however, where the family decided to try something really different, offering an experimental menu and fine-dining setting not offered at any other Legal Sea Food. Apps range from the traditional (lobster soup) to the unusual (crispy pig's head and fried clam); filet mignon with Alaskan king crab goes beyond your standard surf and turf dinner entree, while corn and chorizo add southwest notes to the butter-poached lobster with mussels. The wine list has 50 varieties carefully selected from vintners whom, like Legal Sea Food, are deeply committed to keeping it all in the family.