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BibaCity/Region: Boston
Frequented by local gourmets and celebrities, Biba is an innovative and creative eatery with a reputation for excellence. The original menu is divided into categories for meat, fish, starch, legumina and offal, and features items like asparagus with parmesan custard and pasta leaves; charcoal-broiled prime rib with beet risotto; or lobster with Scotch whiskey butter. The cuisine has been described as 'New American' but embraces nearly every culinary culture known to man. The décor is chic with bold colors, polished wood and Navajo-inspired
painted ceiling squares. Open for lunch and dinner. Brunch on Sundays. Reservations are recommended.
Address: 272 Boylston Street
The Capital GrilleCity/Region: Boston
The succulent and large proportioned steaks, served in style at The Capital Grille in historic Back Bay, send carnivores into raptures, particularly the enormous 24-ounce (680g) dry-aged porterhouse that is the restaurant's specialty. Steaks are hand cut and perfectly seasoned before being grilled and served along with a choice of more than 300 wines. Seafood entrées are also on offer, and the desserts include a tempting homemade cheesecake. The décor is sophisticated and clubby. Open for dinner daily.
Address: 359 Newbury Street
Website: www.capitalgrille.com
MeritageCity/Region: Boston
The restaurant in the Boston Harbor Hotel on Rowes Wharf offers not only the city's finest waterfront view but also some of its finest dining, enhanced with traditional plush décor, dark panelling setting off sparkling crystal. Chef Daniel Bruce offers a seasonally changing menu, passionately geared to his insistence on the freshest and best quality ingredients. He even takes trips to pick his own wild mushrooms for his specialty mushroom and poltena dish. Seafood highlights usually top the menu. A jacket is required and reservations are recommended. Dinner Tuesday to Saturday, and brunch on Sundays.
Address: Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf, Waterfront
Website: www.meritagetherestaurant.com
Hamersley's BistroCity/Region: Boston
One of Boston's great chefs presides over his own bar, café and dining room in a baseball cap, turning out his now famed signature dishes, many lavished with garlic. The menu changes seasonally. Spring, for example, could feature seared tuna with Portobello mushrooms, and Arugula and orange-sesame dressing, or veal cutlet stuffed with proscuitto, and fontina with sherry and creamed spinach. The atmosphere is relaxed, but the food is serious. Open for dinner daily. Reservations recommended.
Address: 553 Tremont Street
Website: www.hamersleysbistro.com
AuraCity/Region: Boston
This popular restaurant in the Seaport Hotel in Boston's historic Waterfront district puts a spin on regional American fare with a seasonally changing menu, renowned particularly for its fresh seafood specialties, chicken and beef entrées, and locally crafted cheeses. Aura is casually elegant and offers an outdoor section. Reservations are recommended. Open for breakfast and lunch daily, and dinner Monday to Saturday.
Address: Seaport Hotel, 1 Seaport Lane
Website: www.seaportboston.com
China PearlCity/Region: Boston
The jewel of Boston's Chinatown district is the China Pearl, renowned among locals and visitors alike. The extensive dinner menu is rather daunting, but each dish, from General Gau's Chicken to Lobster Chinese style, is equally delicious. The restaurant's Dim Sum menu (a variety of savoury snacks made of minced meat wrapped in dough, shium mai or thin wonton and cooked in various ways) is award winning and much sought after. Open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Address: 9 Tyler Street, Chinatown
Website: www.chinapearlrestaurant.com
Durgin ParkCity/Region: Boston
'Your father and grandfather probably dined with us' says the advertising slogan for this Faneuil Hall market restaurant, which has been feeding the hearty appetites of locals for well over a century. Today the restaurant is a tourist attraction simply because the cuisine it serves is still authentic old style New England. The food is unpretentious, honest and good, including favorites like clam chowder, fish chowder, fish cakes and beans, chicken pot pie, prime rib, roast turkey, cornbread, Indian pudding and apple pie. Open daily for lunch and dinner.
Address: 340 Faneuil Hall Market Place
Website: www.durgin-park.com
BomboaCity/Region: Boston
The Bomboa restaurant and bar has become one of Boston's hippest hotspots, offering its stylish cocktails and French-Brazilian fusion cuisine among intimate zebra print booths and mirrored walls. Standard French fare like foie gras and steak tartare shares the menu with festive Latin dishes like the popular feijoada (Brazil's national meaty stew dish). The seafood dishes are highly recommended too. The atmosphere is vibey and noisy, fuelled by Mojito and Caipirinha cocktails that are a highlight on the bar menu. Open for dinner daily.
Address: 35 Stanhope Street
Website: www.bomboaboston.com
Barking CrabCity/Region: Boston
It's just a shabby little shack with a deck overlooking Boston Harbour, but it is renowned for serving the best clam chowder in town, not to mention other seafood delights, and even roasted chestnuts in winter. It is a little raucous at the best of times out on the deck, and the indoor dining room is little quieter and extremely casual. Live bands entertain while customers crack and peel shrimp and crab claws and slurp pitchers of beer. Fried clams, shrimp, scallops, oysters, calamari, lobster, fish and of course crab are available in a variety of guises, from battered to steamed. Lunch and dinner Tuesday to Sunday.
Address: Fort Point Landing, 88 Sleeper Street
Website: www.barkingcrab.com
Silvertone Bar and GrillCity/Region: Boston
The trendy subterranean lounge of the Silvertone has a retro vibe where the food is as comforting as the prices. The menu offers solid meals with a few fancy touches, like meatloaf and mashed potatoes, tasty macaroni and cheese, spicy Caesar salad and marinated steak tips. Cool cocktails, like the signature raspberry-infused vodka martini, and a varied wine list complete the picture, offered with friendly service. Open for dinner Monday to Saturday, and lunch on weekdays.
Address: 69 Bromfield Street
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