Restaurants
Five Innovative Waffle Dishes for Your Weekend Brunch Fix
1. Fried-Chicken-and-Waffle Tacos, Citrus & Salt Baja California meets the Back Bay at chef Jason Santos’s destination for coastal Mexican cuisine. Brunch service, recently expanded […]
Top Chef Alum Brian Young Brings Crowd-Pleaser Emory to Beacon Hill
[Update: This article originally appeared in the May 2019 issue of Boston magazine. According to a rep for the restaurant, Brian Young has subsequently stepped […]
Rum Distiller Maggie Campbell Is Blazing New Trails in the Spirits Industry
Maggie Campbell studied distilling at one of the country’s top schools for the craft. She scored an early-career role at Germain-Robin, among the most venerated […]
Dining Playbook Star Jenny Johnson Shares Her Favorite Things
Ahead of her first Mother’s Day, we asked food-media maven Jenny Johnson, of NESN’s Dining Playbook and WBZ Radio’s Food for Thought, for her keys […]
Dining Out: Youji Iwakura’s Kamakura
A single oyster escabeche, marinated overnight and topped with tiny cubes of dashi gelatin and pearls of Belgian caviar, arrives on a porcelain plate flanked […]
Chef David Yusefzadeh Is Reinventing Fine Dining with Cannabis-Infused Eats
A small group of strangers are assembled at a table in a 10th-floor condo overlooking Boston Harbor. Among them: a twentysomething hipster couple from Southie, […]
Peregrine Is About to Nest on Beacon Hill
Peregrine is about to land in Boston. The new Italian-islands-oriented restaurant from chef Josh Lewin and wine guru Katrina Jazayeri—the duo behind Juliet, Somerville’s winsome […]
New Restaurant Owner Jen Royle Shares Her Favorite Things
Just in time for opening day—and fresh off launching her North End Italian restaurant, Table by Jen Royle—this sassy sports reporter turned chef shares her […]
Restaurant Review: Jamie Mammano’s Bar Lyon
Curnonsky, the 20th-century culinary writer and pioneering prince of food tourism, once dubbed Lyon the gastronome’s world capital. Not an unfair judgment. The capital of […]
Chow Down on Modern Renditions of Jewish Eats at Simcha
With Simcha, Avi Shemtov explores his culinary roots—through his family tree. The chef’s just-opened restaurant in his hometown of Sharon, named for his grandmother, serves locally rare […]
6 Stylish Cocktails Made With a Traditional Irish Spirit
Cocktails, from left to right: “Celtic Tiger,” Estragon At this South End tapas haven, bartender Sahil Mehta enjoys introducing guests to traditional spirits from around […]
Five Festive St. Patrick’s Day Specials in Boston
Looking for something a little more interesting than lamb stew or green beer to spruce up your St. Patrick’s Day dining? Well, by the luck […]
Matthew Kenney’s Vegan Empire Expands to Boston This Spring
When Matthew Kenney first planted the seeds for a vegan-dining empire many years ago, skeptics called the chef crazy. After all, who would pay for […]
Obsessions: Jason Santos of Buttermilk & Bourbon
First, fuel your Fat Tuesday with recipes from star chef Jason Santos’s new cookbook, Buttermilk & Bourbon, named for his New Orleans–inspired Back Bay restaurant. […]
Restaurant Review: D.ream’s Nahita
The problem: You’re stepping off your Gulfstream when a hot date comes through on Tinder Select, and suddenly, you need to pick a place for […]