Despite the gaudy 1950s-style sign out front, this Chinese restaurant-cum-bar - a Harvard institution in an area of vanishing institutions - is slightly lacking in the decor...

If the Japanese phenomenon known as shabu-shabu has yet to make a splash in Boston, it's no fault of this hot-pot spot, stylish by Chinatown standards. Both the range and...

Even during regular dinner service, the New Shanghai makes dim sum-style dining an option - and a delight. Its panoply of steamed or fried pies and buns, filled with chives,...

Bite for bite, this self-styled Japanese tavern is arguably serving the most expensive food in the city. It's also, less arguably, some of the most thrilling - daring yet...

Cross a Zen meditation garden with a slick postmodern lounge, and what do you get? Something like the urban outpost of Oishii - which is to say nothing like the modest 15-seat...

If the name conjures up bucolic landscapes, the dowdy basement digs promptly erase them. Happily, the Hong Kong-style seafood soon makes amends. Spiced dry-fried eel, enormous...

Lanterns and gongs, Buddhas and dragons, red neon and bamboo: this pan-Asian place has atmosphere in spades, evoking sultry nights in Old Saigon - or at least the young Boston...

Along the stairs leading down from Newbury Street into this literal bargain basement of a sushi bar, it's often standing room only - but the few tables in the tiny dining room...

Down a side street and up a flight of stairs, Taiwan Café is hard to find - but once you have, you'll soon be back (especially since Taiwanese cuisine itself isn't exactly...