Matt Murphy’s

Best of Boston 2009 Pub Grub
Aside from a bounty of cheap burgers and greasy fries, this year's tour of pub grub options turned up a surprising lack of subst...

Best of Boston 2006 Restaurant, Irish
It’s strange that Boston is short on purveyors of good Irish food. (Especially when, according to our research, the city was fo...

Best of Boston 2005 Restaurant, Irish
"Pub food" used to be a euphemism for bad food. But over the past decade, old-country publicans have transformed their bars into tren...

Best of Boston 2004 Restaurant, Irish
We're constantly amazed at the lack of authentic Irish cuisine in this most Irish of cities—and constantly grateful for the far...

Best of Boston 2003 Restaurant, Irish
For a city with an Irish bar on every block, Boston is decidedly short on palatable Irish fare. The exception is this enclave of gree...

Best of Boston 2002 Restaurant, Irish
Some might scoff that Matt Murphy's perennially wins this award because, well, there aren't exactly Irish restaurants on every corner...

Best of Boston 2001 Restaurant, Irish
This Brookline Village pub has consistently bucked conventional wisdom by proving that "Irish cuisine" is not an oxymoron. ...