Best of Boston

News travels fast in the Instagram age: Consider the epic line down Hanover Street to celebrate the debut of restaurateur Nick Varano’s newest sandwich shop, My Mother’s Cutlets, this past April. The casual spot sold out of its stock of namesake cutlets that weekend, and a few months in, our social media feeds are still inundated by influencers sampling the sesame-seed-studded buns stuffed with crispy chicken, veal, and more, all nostalgic for indulgent, red-saucy Italian-American classics.