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Dining Out

Restaurants

Restaurant Review: Select Oyster Bar

Michael Serpa’s seafood eatery steps up the Back Bay’s dining game.

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Restaurant Review: Townsman

Matt Jennings’s buzzy new downtown restaurant has ambition to spare. Now all it needs is a little more focus.

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Restaurant Review: Centre Street Café

With a new Italian menu and an overhauled space, a Jamaica Plain stalwart becomes a neighborhood favorite yet again.

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Restaurant Review: Café ArtScience

This just might be Boston’s next great French restaurant.

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Restaurant Review: Vialé

With rich Italian fare and craft cocktails, the Vialé team hopes to fill the big shoes left by Rendezvous in Central Square.

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Restaurant Review: Comedor

Newton’s lively, Chilean-influenced bar/restaurant has plenty of unusual items to draw diners—but can it keep them coming back?

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Restaurant Review: Fairsted Kitchen

When Mediterranean-leaning cuisine meets grandmother-chic décor, a cozy, friendly, and mostly cohesive neighborhood restaurant emerges.

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Restaurant Review: Bastille Kitchen in Fort Point

Mistral’s Seth Greenberg strikes again with a Fort Point brasserie that’s a stunning, ambitious, and often uneven ride.

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Restaurant Review: Commonwealth in Cambridge

While chef Nookie Postal’s Kendall Square venture has sincerity in spades, it sometimes gets lost in the farm-to-table shuffle.

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Restaurant Review: Hamersley’s Bistro in Boston

Corby Kummer bids Hamersley’s a proper farewell by taking stock of the bistro’s unprecedented success.

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Restaurant Review: La Brasa in Somerville

At La Brasa, chef Daniel Bojorquez cooks whatever he feels like. The result? A menu that’s as exciting as it is inconsistent.

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Restaurant Review: Row 34 in Boston

At Island Creek Oyster’s new sibling, the fish is always fresh—and the simplest preparations show it off the best.

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Restaurant Review: Alden & Harlow

The menu at chef Michael Scelfo’s new Cambridge restaurant is fresh and local, but that’s beside the point.

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Restaurant Review: Bondir Concord

The Concord outpost of Bondir may not have the charm of the Cambridge original, but there are still plenty of reasons to make the trip.

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Restaurant Review: Ostra in Boston

With his newest restaurant, Jamie Mammano gives ultra-fresh seafood his signature swank treatment.