'Bivalves', reads a hand-shaped sign on the gate, pointing you towards Barbara Lynch's diminutive, understated oyster bar. Decor so coolly clean it's practically scrubbed sets...

When wine bottles serve as lamp bases and wine labels as wallpaper, you know you're in for a good glass of grape juice. The 25-page list at this quietly stylish rendezvous is...

Following an indie flick at arthouse Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge's culture vultures convene to refuel at this eclectic, welcoming hideaway. Best known for its frisky,...

New arrival Bouchée is a fairly decent replica of the model Parisian brasserie. The zinc, the tin, the marble, the leather, the tilework, the pièce de resistance of a sunken...

For years the city's only representative of genuine French cuisine, Brasserie Jo may still be its most authentic. If it's les plats classiques you crave - piquant yet succulent...

It's polished, it's chic, it's packed with designer-clad South Enders swirling wine goblets and nibbling on pâté, it's… a butcher's shop? Yes, indeed - as well as a cosy...

There's nothing remotely parlour-like about this Harvard Square pizza parlour, as austere as you might expect a former fire station overlooking a graveyard to be. But there's...

If ever there were a place to do as the locals do (besides Rome, of course), this French-Latin haunt is it. And what is it they do? Pass up on the sometimes hit-and-miss...

When people talk about the true character of the 'old' North End, chances are they're envisioning the Daily Catch. It's essentially a kitchen nook with a blackboard menu, juice...

It glitters and glows, shimmers and shines - one look at Somerville's extravagantly decorated Spanish stronghold and you'll know why the surrealist icon is its patron saint....

Named after its young gun of a chef-owner, this cool Med eaterie has got the goods to generate a major happy-hour buzz: a spacious lounge, a seasonal patio, a front-row view of...

Scallop-kiwi maki, sea urchin tempura, shining baubles of monkfish pâté - the Back Bay was more than ready for such heady fare, as Douzo has proven since day one. A date...

As Faneuil Hall tourist traps go, this cheerfully creaky joint maintains surprising integrity. Plain old-fashioned Yankee cooking carries the day - as it has done every day for...

On paper, the concept must have looked pretty fuzzy: how could the then-unknown Chris Schlesinger possibly pull off a tropically tinged seafood shack/barbecue pit complete with...