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...

With name chefs blowing in and out of its kitchen, this dark, suave neighbourhood pioneer of alta cucina has hit its share of rough patches over the years. But its capacity for...

Set below street level on the back slope of Beacon Hill, this Italian restaurant is as quirky as its angle. Red paint, lace curtains and close-set tables define its design, and...

From the outside, it's a nondescript building on a major thoroughfare. Inside, Josh and Jennifer Ziskin's two-storey eaterie evokes a cosy Tuscan farmhouse, serving cuisine to...

Little Maurizio's keeps a lower profile but higher standards than the majority of Hanover Street's eateries. Delivered by generally earnest waiters, along with the occasional...

With a magic oven that yields a beautifully bubbly crust on every pizza and a stalwart crew of Boston-bred tray-slingers, Pizzeria Regina's reputation precedes it. So, often,...

The achievement of local boy-done-good Anthony Caturano, Prezza combines the urbane musculature of a downtown steakhouse with the intimacy of the trattorias that surround it -...

While North Enders were sad to see it go, everybody's glad to see it grow. Anthony Susi has relocated his beloved but awkwardly small ristorante to a South End space with a bit...

Even more striking in its black-and-white stripes than older sibling Mistral, Sorellina looks as much like a modern design showroom as an Italian restaurant. The menu is...

In the hands of a lesser chef-owner, Taranta might have been a mere novelty. Under José Duarte - a visionary in the kitchen and a charmer in the dining room - this southern...

There isn't a streetcorner in Italy without at least one simple, family-run trattoria, a place where hospitality goes hand in hand with homemade pasta. The fact that Trattoria...

The Crazy Way, as the name translates, takes an admirably streamlined approach to contemporary Italian cuisine. The strikingly bare setting reflects this ethos, from the dining...