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Jolyon Helterman

Restaurants

Restaurant Review: A Riviera Runs Through It

What does “coastal Italian” mean, anyway? At Ken Oringer and Jamie Bissonnette’s Faccia Brutta, it means a lot of things—most of them very, very good.

Restaurants

Restaurant Review: Rhapsody in Bluefin

It’s precious. It’s punishingly expensive. It gets booked out months in advance. Why 15 years into its remarkable run plying luxed-up Japanese bites, O Ya may be the most reliably sublime dining splurge in town.

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A Shot Across the Bao

Sorting out the hits, myths, and sticky wickets at Wusong Road over mai tais and handmade crab rangoons.

Restaurants

Dining Out: A Hundred Different Layers

A world-famous chef from Belmont comes home to open Bar Enza, a trattoria at the Charles Hotel. Does his legendary lasagna travel, too?

Restaurants

Dining Out: Down for the Countess

How much hassle are you willing to put up with for extraordinary Italian?

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Dining Out: Just One Small Catch

An unlikely rule of thumb for landing a stellar meal at Atlántico, the South End’s new(ish) seafood-focused tapas spot: Skip the tapas.

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Dining Out: Less Is More

Dynamite drinks and Thai food are the ball game at Mahaniyom, where the sharply focused kitchen dares to not do everything.

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Dining Out: Orfano

A powerhouse Fenway chef rolls out a cunning (re)vision of red-sauce Italian for the Roaring 2020s.

Restaurants

A Massively Talented Chef Makes Providence’s Birch Restaurant a Chic Surprise

Ben Sukle, a James Beard Award nominee, serves frameable dishes to a fashionable counter.

Restaurants

Dining Out: The Table at Season to Taste

Jolyon Helterman visits the Table at Season to Taste, in Cambridge. 

Tweets, Shoots and Leaves

With gushing, exuberant, indefatigably upbeat charm, the foodie hype machine is destroying the soul of dining out.

Gin Dandy

Enough already with the vodka drinks tarted up with bitters, herbs, citrus peel, and flowery cordials. It’s time to embrace the real thing—gin.

Restaurants

First Bite: El Centro

Neighborhood gem, or haute-Mex me-too? It’s a little of both.

Arts & Entertainment

Champions of Breakfast

Boston’s early risers have never had better dining options. Behold, your new rules for sleuthing out the cream of the Cream of Wheat.

The Coast Is Clear

What’s missing from post-summer Provincetown? Crowded sidewalks, oppressive heat, and touristy “celebrations.”