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Restaurants In Boston
The following is a list of notable restaurants in Boston, Massachusetts: Current Currently operating restaurants in Boston include: * Amrheins Restaurant, Amrheins * Anna's Taqueria * Boca Grande Taqueria * Bova's Bakery * Caffé Vittoria * Charlie's Sandwich Shoppe * Cheers Beacon Hill * Dig (restaurant), Dig * Elephant Walk (restaurant), Elephant Walk * The Fours * Galleria Umberto (restaurant), Galleria Umberto * Legal Sea Foods * Mantra (restaurant), Mantra * O Ya (restaurant), O Ya * The Paramount, Boston * Regina Pizzeria * Santarpio's Pizza * Smith & Wollensky * Somaek (restaurant), Somaek * South Street Diner * Union Oyster House * Upper Crust Pizzeria Defunct Defunct restaurants in Boston include: * Anthony's Pier 4 * Biba (restaurant), Biba *Brasserie Jo * Doyle's Cafe * Durgin-Park * L'Espalier *Hamersley's Bistro * Jacob Wirth Restaurant *Julien's Restorator * Locke-Ober * Young's Hotel (Boston), Young's Hotel See also * List of restaurants in Cambridge, Mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the Metropolitan statistical area, eleventh-largest in the United States. Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritans, Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina Pizzeria
Regina Pizzeria, also known as Pizzeria Regina, and originally called Regina Pizza, is a regional pizza chain in New England. The company was founded in 1926 by Luigi D'Auria in Boston's North End neighborhood. It has been run by the Polcari family since 1956. The chain is a part of Boston Restaurant Associates and is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts. The Regina Pizzeria's first location, at 11 1/2 Thacher Street in Boston's North End, is the best known. The company also boasts that it makes its sausage and dough daily from fresh ingredients. Regina Pizzeria is widely known and has a rivalry with Santarpio's Pizza. History Regina Pizzeria was established in 1926 by Luigi D'Auria, originally under the name Regina Pizza (''"Queen Pizza"'' in Italian). It is located at 11 1/2 Thacher Street in Boston's North End, and is Boston's oldest pizzeria. When D'Auria died he left the restaurant to his grandson, Luigi D'Auria. In 1956, the grandson sold Regina Pizza to the Polca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Espalier
''L’Espalier'' was a French restaurant located in Boston, Massachusetts, in the Back Bay neighborhood, adjacent to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. The chef and owner of L'Espalier was Frank McClelland, who received a James Beard Foundation Award in 2007 for Best Northeast Chef. History Chef Moncef Meddeb opened L'Espalier on Boylston Street between Arlington and Berkeley in 1978. It moved to an 1880s-era brick townhouse on Gloucester Street in 1982 and was purchased by McClelland in 1988. The restaurant moved again into the Mandarin Oriental complex in 2008. It was designed by Martin Vahtra of Projects Design in New York. L'Espalier is known locally as a popular place for marriage proposals and celebrity sightings. On March 27, 2013 McClelland celebrated their 35th anniversary with a specially designed six course tasting menu including Jonah crab bisque, branzino and rack of lamb. L'Espalier closed permanently upon the expiration of its lease on December 31, 2018. Food ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durgin-Park
Durgin-Park ( ) was a centuries-old restaurant at 340 Faneuil Hall Marketplace in downtown Boston. The Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau stated that it had been a "landmark since 1827", and it was a popular tourist destination within Quincy Market. The restaurant had entrances on both facades (Faneuil Hall and Clinton Street). On January 3, 2019, the owners announced that their last day of service would be January 12, 2019; the restaurant closed permanently on that date. A satellite location at Boston's Logan International Airport remained open but closed before June 2022. History The first restaurant at this former warehouse was opened in 1742 and was purchased in 1827 by John Durgin and Eldridge Park, becoming a Boston landmark. By 1840, Durgin & Park took on John G. Chandler as a third partner. It was this trio that established the concepts of food and service that have remained essentially unchanged. During the Reconstruction era—after the deaths of Durgin an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doyle's Cafe
Doyle's Cafe was a pub located on Washington Street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Doyle's Cafe was established in 1882 and is located near the Samuel Adams brewery. Its close proximity to the brewery afforded Doyle's the unique opportunity to serve new or experimental Samuel Adams beers. It is also where Samuel Adams Boston Lager was first put on tap. Throughout its history, Doyle's was known as a favorite watering hole for both local and national politicians. On St. Patrick's Day in 1988, Senator Ted Kennedy helped dedicate a new room at the location to his maternal grandfather, John F. Fitzgerald. Boston musician Rick Berlin was a long-time employee at Doyle's Cafe. Given its historic look, atmosphere and popularity in the LGBTQ community the Irish pub has been used in several Hollywood movies and television series. Shots of the exterior of the building were used in the television series ''Boston Public''. The pub also appeared i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brasserie Jo
Brasserie Jo was a Chicago restaurant that received a James Beard Foundation Award for Best New Restaurant in 1996. Jean Joho was the founding chef. It closed in 2010 after being open for 15 years. A pop-up, carry-out only option opened in 2020. Joho opened a second branch of the restaurant in the South End of Boston in the Colonnade Hotel, in 1998. That location closed in October 2018. The menu focused on food from Alsace Alsace (, ; ) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in the Grand Est administrative region of northeastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine, next to Germany and Switzerland. In January 2021, it had a population of 1,9 .... See also * James Beard Foundation Award: 1990s References Defunct French restaurants in the United States Defunct restaurants in Boston Defunct restaurants in Chicago James Beard Foundation Award for Best New Restaurant French restaurants in Illinois French restaurants in Massachusetts [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biba (restaurant)
Biba was a restaurant in Boston owned by Lydia Shire. It “opened to great fanfare” in 1989. The restaurant, overlooking the Public Garden, was designed by Adam Tihany. The menu was described as “Shire's own particular eclectic blend of traditional American regional cuisine and New England seafood, with accents of Italy, California and Asia.” Instead of being arranged in traditional categories such as appetizers and entrees, it was divided by meat, starch, "legumina" (vegetables), offal (two different preparations of calves brains; lamb tongue with fava beans) and fish. In 1998, chef Susan Regis won the James Beard Foundation Award The James Beard Foundation Awards are annual awards presented by the James Beard Foundation to recognize chefs, restaurateurs, authors and journalists in the United States. They are scheduled around James Beard's May 5 birthday. The media awar ... for Best Chef in the Northeast. In 1992, Shire won the same award for her work at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony's Pier 4
Anthony's Pier 4 was a restaurant on the South Boston waterfront opened in 1963 by restaurateur Anthony Athanas. In the 1980s, it was one of the highest-grossing restaurants in the United States. It closed in 2013, and the site was scheduled for redevelopment. History Restaurateur Anthony Athanas opened Anthony's Pier 4 in 1963 and lived in an apartment above it. It served traditional American food emphasizing locally caught seafood; the dining room, with seating for 500, overlooked Boston Harbor on three sides. In 1968, Athanas bought a 1927 former Hudson River cruise ship, the SS ''Peter Stuyvesant'', and brought it from New York to Boston, where a specially built concrete and steel cradle held it in place adjacent to the restaurant; it served as a private bar and dining room and held a wine cellar as well as art works and mementoes collected by Athanas. The ship broke free, turned turtle, and sank during the Blizzard of February 1978; after unsuccessful efforts to salvage i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Crust Pizzeria
The Upper Crust Pizzeria is an American pizzeria chain with four locations in the Boston area, and one in California. History Upper Crust was founded by Jordan Tobins in 2001. The first pizzeria opened in the Beacon Hill neighborhood on Charles Street in 2001. Josh Huggard and Brendan Higgins were co-owners from 2002 to 2012. It grew to 14 locations, some franchised, and developed a cult following before declaring bankruptcy in 2012. The company was purchased in 2013 by Quabbin Capital, a Boston based private equity firm investing in US manufacturing and consumer goods companies. RJ Dourney, previously CEO of Così (restaurant), Così, was CEO from 2017 to 2019. In 2020, Quabbin sold half interest in the chain to Streetlight Capital Management. Anthony Ackil, a partner in Streetlight, became CEO in 2020, restoring the original recipes and adding fried chicken to the menu. As of January 2025, it has restaurants in Massachusetts: Beacon Hill, Boston, Beacon Hill and South End, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Oyster House
Union Oyster House is a restaurant at 41–43 Union Street in Downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Open to diners since 1826, it is among the oldest operating restaurants in the United States and the oldest known to have been continuously operating. The building, which is part of the Blackstone Block Historic District, was listed as a National Historic Landmark in 2003. History The building itself was built around 1716. In 1742, before it became a restaurant, Hopestill Capen's dress goods business, At the Sign of the Cornfields, occupied the property. In 1771, printer Isaiah Thomas published his newspaper, the '' Massachusetts Spy'', on the second floor. The restaurant originally opened as the Atwood & Bacon Oyster House on August 3, 1826. The Union Oyster House has had several famous people in history as regular diners, including the Kennedy family, John F. Kerry, and Daniel Webster. Webster was known for regularly consuming at least six plates of oysters. In 1796, Louis Philippe w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Street Diner
South Street Diner, established in 1947, is a 24-hour, seven night a week diner in Boston's Leather District. History South Street Diner was built in 1947 by the Worcester Dining Company and was originally named the Blue Diner. The Food Network describes its busiest hours to be between 1AM and 4AM. Reception The diner was the subject of the 2012 documentary ''24 Hours At The South Street Diner'', directed by Melissa Dowler; the documentary was an official selection at IFF BostonThe Woods Hole Film Festival and New Filmmakers New York. The diner has been frequented by celebrities, musicians, and A-listers over the years, including Don King, Donnie Wahlberg, Robert Plant,http://boston.grubstreet.com/2013/03/south-street-diner-.html The Grateful Dead, Morgan Freeman, and Chris Evans. Other celebrities that have been at South Street Diner include Clay Buchholz, Kathy Griffin, Jackie Gleason, Jim Schultz, Kevin Hart, Christopher Walken, and 59th Texas Tech Masked Rider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
