Best of Boston 2009
After months of dining, shopping, and advice-seeking our way across the Hub, it's here: your annual guide to the finest our city has to offer.
- Photos by Joseph Webb, Hornick/Rivlin, Keller + Keller, Tim Llewellyn, Bob O'Connor, Eric Roth, and Michael Piazza.
North End to South Shore, East Boston to MetroWest. We made a lot of stops in our hunt for the finest of everything the Hub has to offer, an annual quest that we took in a whole new direction this year (see "How We Did It"). And now, 12 months, hundreds of miles, and about a gazillion calories later, our Best of Boston journey has finally ended. Yours, however, is just getting started.
BEST OF BOSTON 2009 AWARDS
Nightlife: Singular Sensations
HOW WE DID IT
Haven't heard the word "transparency" this year? Good--because that's what this edition of the Best of Boston is all about. Our team of expert judges selected winners based on months of browsing, buying, primping, gorging, and partying (it's research, people); as proof, in the pages ahead you'll find more analysis and evidence of our pavement-pounding than ever before. In another enlightenment-boosting move, we're calling out both runners-up and previous honorees for the first time. And this year, city limits are no boundary to the best: If a place is outside Boston, but serves up, say, the most blazingly tasty Szechwan in the land (See Best of Boston 2009 Chinese), it earned a place on our honor roll.
Contributors: J. Kenji Alt, Alison Arnett, Matthew Reed Baker, Rachel Baker, Elizabeth Bomze, Jamie Coelho, Annie B. Copps, Geoffrey Gagnon, Donna Garlough, Sascha de Gersdorff, Alyssa Giacobbe, Jolyon Helterman, Brittany Jasnoff, J.L. Johnson, Charles Kelsey, Paul Kix, Rachel Levitt, Wyndham Lewis, Erin Byers Murray, Jeremy Savlen, Jason Schwartz, Francis Storrs, Brigid Sweeney, Amy Traverso
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