Best of Boston
Best Restaurant, General Excellence
Ellis Square Social
Beverly
During the two decades Jay Murray kept Grill 23 humming like a well-marbled machine, his creative artistry was mostly relegated to the specials board. At [...] read more»
2019 Best Restaurant, General Excellence, South
Towneship
Chandra Gouldrup, the sustainability minded chef behind breakfast/lunch spot the Farmer’s Daughter, adds praiseworthy dinner to her repertoire at this neighboring knockout inside a 150-year-old [...] read more»
2019 Best Restaurant, General Excellence, West
Buttonwood
This Newton Highlands restaurant from the team behind Sycamore opened in early 2018 to much acclaim—then promptly shut down after an electrical fire in the [...] read more»
2017 Best Restaurant, General Excellence
O Ya
Boston
Some say Tim and Nancy Cushman's first restaurant hasn't changed much in the decade since it opened, and they're right: Night after night, sushi chefs [...] read more»
2016 Best Restaurant, General Excellence
Alden & Harlow
Cambridge
Whether we’re looking for a place to entertain out-of-towners or just an impromptu night out on the town, Alden & Harlow has become our default [...] read more»
2015 Best Restaurant, General Excellence
Coppa
Boston
Every time the kitchen changes hands at Jamie Bissonnette and Ken Oringer's tiny South End enoteca, we hold our breath. First it was Bissonnette handing [...] read more»
2014 Best Restaurant, General Excellence
Asta
Boston
In a city with no shortage of "industrial-chic" small-plates spots, it’s refreshing to find a restaurant that marches to its own beat. Prixe fixe and [...] read more»
2013 Best Restaurant, General Excellence
Hungry Mother
Cambridge
It's hard to find a place in Boston that better exemplifies the national shift toward casual fine dining than this Kendall Square darling, which serves [...] read more»
2013 Best Restaurant, General Excellence, Restaurant, General Excellence, West
Strip-T’s
Watertown
Chef Tim Maslow has transformed his father's tiny Watertown sandwich shop into a temple to the bounty of New England—and the world. Delicate bluefish with [...] read more»
2012 Best Restaurant, General Excellence
Menton
Boston
Barbara Lynch's haute-cuisine mecca was an instant sensation when it opened in 2010. The parade of tiny, striking dishes! The feather-light glassware! The prices! And [...] read more»
2011 Best Restaurant, General Excellence
Rialto
Cambridge
If there's anything we've learned from fine dining's shift toward farm-to-table cooking, it's that the integrity of one's cuisine is just as important as high-end [...] read more»
2011 Best Restaurant, General Excellence, West
Il Casale
Belmont
The rustic ambiance of chef Dante de Magistris's ode to homestyle Italian cooking belies the refined dining experience here. Service is warm and knowledgeable—and the [...] read more»
2011 Best Restaurant, General Excellence, Nantucket
Straight Wharf Restaurant
Nantucket
The Straight Wharf remains one of Nantucket's toughest reservations. Perhaps guests know that the celebrity contingent (regulars include Brian Williams) might be on hand. But [...] read more»
2009 Best Restaurant, General Excellence
O Ya
Boston
It's been two years since chef Tim Cushman's refined sushi operation made a stealth entrance onto the scene, gradually picking up buzz until being 'discovered' [...] read more»
2008 Best Restaurant, General Excellence
O Ya
Boston
We Bostonians didn't need Frank Bruni to tell us that O Ya is extraordinary. But when the New York Times food critic named it the [...] read more»
2007 Best Restaurant, General Excellence
The Old Inn on the Green
New Marlborough
This renovated B&B began as an 18th-century stagecoach stop, and to this day there are no electric lights in the dining rooms—only a sea of [...] read more»