Restaurant Reviews
Review: Coquette Is Not Your Grandpa’s Boîte
Readers of a certain age—okay, you only have to be about 40—may recall a bad old time in Boston when you could queue up for […]
Review: Grace by Nia Brings Throwback Supper-Club Glamour to the Seaport
Imagine bringing a time-traveling Bostonian from the year 2000 to the Seaport in 2023 to stand in front of the new Grace by Nia, a […]
Review: Brookline’s Bar Vlaha Gives a Novel European Cuisine a Vivid Local Debut
My Greek-American pal Ted called me a few months back, excited to see if I’d been to the new Brookline restaurant Bar Vlaha. No, I […]
Review: Comfort Kitchen Beautifully Executes a Soulful, Global Menu
Every restaurant has a story, or at least a website “About Us” section with a founder’s mission statement. Some are more compelling than others. There’s […]
Review: Tonino Is Unpretentious, Delicious, and Consummately Jamaica Plain
Every dedicated Boston restaurant explorer knows the varied, distinctive character of our neighborhoods—particularly the ones where tourists roam and the cost of parking infuriates. The […]
Review: Moëca Largely Succeeds With Wildly Clever Seafood
To paraphrase an old saying in the restaurant business: “When life gives you green crabs, make green-crab bisque.” For readers who don’t follow sustainability issues, […]
Review: An Indie Success Story at Lenox Sophia
I was minding my own business in a restaurant the other night when something punched me in the mouth. I didn’t see it coming: My […]
Restaurant Review: A Sprawling Italian-ish Menu at Faccia Brutta
At Boston, we do stars, but in my dream job, we’d size up restaurants using only Randy Jackson–isms, which I’ve admired since American Idol’s heyday […]
Restaurant Review: Contessa Is Worth the Wait
I once got into Contessa for dinner three times in a single week. And if that doesn’t explode your brain, well, clearly you’ve never tried […]
Restaurant Review: Nautilus Pier 4 Finds Gold by Scouring Global Coastlines
The nautilus, an intricate, tentacled creature with a shell like the spiraled eye of a hurricane, is a cephalopod mollusk (read: squid-like creature) that dwells […]
Restaurant Review: Brookline’s Exceptional Mahaniyom Proves That Less Is More
The fattiest cut of a pig isn’t actually the belly. It’s the jowl. In Italy they cure it into guanciale, dispensing it like over-the-top bacon […]
Dining Out: Cuban Restaurant Mariel Knows How to Have a Good Time
It’s 7 p.m. on a Thursday night. The wind is whipping across deserted Post Office Square, a Financial District parcel bordered on all sides by […]
Restaurant Review: Orfano Is a Triumphant Modern Take on Italian from Tiffani Faison
The latest Tiffani Faison production is up and running, folks, and if you’ve caught any of the star chef’s string of Fenway hits—her valentine to […]
Restaurant Review: Chef Colin Lynch’s Black Lamb Is Comfortable and Classic
The most memorable experience I had at Black Lamb, chef-owner Colin Lynch’s highly anticipated fourth project in the South End, involved shot glasses and free […]
Restaurant Review: In the Lobby of the Whitney Hotel, Peregrine Soars
In a way, Peregrine is a homecoming for chef Joshua Lewin and wine expert Katrina Jazayeri. Before they jointly opened Juliet, a European-style café-restaurant in […]