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Best Ice Cream

J.P. Licks

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Good thing J.P. Licks launched a new line of ice cream cakes in time for its 40th birthday. At present nosotros can properly celebrate the small chain of Boston-area scoop shops, which has gifted us over the years with countless artistic flavors served in cones and cookie sandwiches. All of them are still handmade at Licks' home base in Jamaica Plain, including a few boozy varieties — similar caramel-bourbon-fig or cherry-amaretto — that would feel particularly appropriate for raising a ruby anniversary toast. Multiple locations, jplicks.com.

Best Food Truck

Love Domestic dog Hot Dog Buffet

Pat Piasecki

In the parking lot of a motorcycle dealer in the distant shadow of the Encore casino, a trailer bumping Latin beats serves hard-to-find Brazilian hot dogs deep into the night. The ridiculously delicious sliced dogs, if ordered complete, are as (over)loaded every bit they would exist at a block party in Rio — hot-pressed with sugariness corn and peas, seasoned beef sauce, mayo, mashed potato, and more, more than, more. You will devour i. You lot will exist called "friend." You are and so coming dorsum. 1865 Revere Embankment Pkwy., Everett, MA 02149, facebook.com/vandeju.

Best Doughnuts

Wedlock Square Donuts

Nosotros idea we couldn't possibly love Union Square Donuts' soft, flaky pastries, filled with homemade pineapple preserves, glazed with blackberry-basil-lime icing, and studded with smoky-sugariness Vermont maple bacon, whatsoever more than nosotros already do. So the Somerville-built-in bakery, led by recent Nutrient Network Holiday Blistering Championship finalist Sarah Belisle, started offering its treats at outposts of the Bagel Tabular array, another growing Boston-surface area brand. At present we know where to become for a morning fix of carbohydrate and everything spice — and boy, is it dainty. Multiple locations, unionsquaredonuts.com.

All-time Fried Chicken

Chickadee

Mona Miri

How a swish Mediterranean-inspired eating place ended up with the all-time fried chicken in Boston is a mystery to solve later. For now, nosotros're too fixated on the ultra-crunchy, gilt-brownish peel and moist, pipage-hot meat, as well as the refined spins on cookout sides: say, scoops of mashed celeriac-walnut skordalia. 21 Drydock Ave., Seaport, MA 02210, chickadeerestaurant.com.

Best Poutine

Shōjō

Shōjō'southward "Shadowless" fries might not be poutine by the strictest definition, just this fusion twist on the Canadian comfort food is as well adept to contend over technicalities. It trades brown gravy for a spicy sauce of beefiness mapo tofu, replaces curds with tangy "kimcheese," and employs super-crispy duck-fat fries that can contend with anything offered up in Montreal. 9 Tyler St., Chinatown, MA 02111, shojoboston.com.

Best Mac 'n' Cheese

Stillwater

Chef Sarah Wade'southward Okie roots smooth in epic comfort foods similar her signature gooey, cheddar-precipitous mac 'n' cheese. Even better is Wade's takeout-only "Mac Bar" menu for build-your-own bowls with fixings such as smoked chicken chili and roasted love apple sauce. 120 Kingston St., Downtown, MA 02111, stillwaterboston.com.

All-time Dinner with a View

Reelhouse

Pat Piasecki

Outdoor dining is a groovy way to encounter the metropolis from every bending — and that'due south exactly why we love Eastie's waterfront Reelhouse, which offers uncommonly sweeping skyline views to accompany its specialty spritzes and global cuisine. Plus, it's just a curt walk away from the Alpine Ship, its new sibling oyster bar located aboard an bodily 245-human foot vessel moored at a pier. half dozen New St., Due east Boston, MA 02128, reelhouseboston.com.

Best Patio for Cocktails

Shore Leave

Bostonians are only the Bourne Bridge away from a summertime escape to the Cape. But when you desire to experience transported to more-tropical climes, travel to the tiki-bar-manner setup at Shore Leave in the South End. It's the perfect identify for cooling off with fruity notwithstanding finessed rum-soaked drinks and Pacific Rim–inspired snacks such as okonomiyaki potato tots pond in jalapeño cheese with katsu sauce and bonito. eleven William E Mullins Way, Boston, MA 02118, shoreleaveboston.com.

Best Romantic Patio

Sophia's Grotto

Booking a dinner on a big, buzzy, splashy restaurant patio is a fine way to impress a first date. But when it's fourth dimension to build a truly romantic vibe — and settle in for quieter chat — we love tucking into a meal on more-intimate patios, similar the one at Roslindale Village's Italian charmer Sophia's Grotto; its brick-laid courtyard, subconscious from street view, is the ideal spot for Lady and the Tramp–style canoodling. No wonder we're in honey with the al fresco era. 22 Birch St., Roslindale, MA 02131, sophiasgrotto.com.

All-time Eating place Turned Grocer

Pagu

Kristin Teig

A lot of restaurants pivoted to add together grocery sales this yr, simply none did it quite like Pagu. Yep, chef-owner Tracy Chang stocks the virtual shelves of her market with jars of house-fabricated condiments (including her bomb-dot-com Umami XO sauce), chef-driven provisions (see the eye-popping purple pancake mix made from taro root), and repast kits, all reflecting her eating place's Japanese-Castilian cuisine. Only as important, though, she's too long on essentials — flour, EVOO, fresh produce — and through her new organization, Project Restore The states, abode-delivers them to communities in need. 310 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, gopagu.com.

Best Vegetarian "Fried Chicken"

Rhythm 'n Wraps

WHAT It LOOKS Like: Fried chicken. WHAT Information technology Really IS: Shredded jackfruit that's remixed into a patty, breaded, and fried. WHY TO Become It: Between the zingy pickled red onions and cilantro aioli, the flavour is equally bright as the bouncy hip-hop music playing overhead. 1096 Commonwealth Ave., Allston, MA 02134, rhythmnwraps.com.

Best Vegetarian "Steak and Cheese"

Earnest Drinks

WHAT It LOOKS LIKE: A steak and cheese. WHAT IT REALLY IS: Shaved and seasoned maitake and hon-shimeji mushrooms that are sautéed with peppers and onions, piled into a sub curlicue, and positively doused with gooey pimiento cheese. WHY TO Become It: Besides the cheese sauce? Because it pairs perfectly with a boozy frappe fabricated with scoops from the café's sibling ice creamery, Gracie'due south. 399 Binney St., Cambridge, MA 02142, orderearnest.com.

Best Chef, Full general Excellence

Douglass Williams, Mida

Chris Churchell

What makes a great chef? Great food, of course, such every bit Mida'south bowls of lovingly crafted carbonara, soft bricks of super-buttery, garlicky focaccia, and other Italian comforts. More than that, though, Williams has mastered every little particular in the holistic fine art of hospitality: Setting the scene with soothing (and flattering!) soft lighting, he shares unforced amuse with guests at Mida'due south original South Finish enoteca and a new, twice-sized sibling in Newton, which adds New Haven–style pizza — a preview of Williams'south soon-to-launch pie project, Apizza — to this Renaissance man'due south repertoire. 782 Tremont St., South End, MA 02118, midarestaurant.com.

All-time Sushi

Umami Omakase

Kristin Teig

At this relative newcomer in Due north Cambridge, the presentation is and so artful that you almost experience guilty (near!) for polishing off the expertly cutting and dressed Japanese body of water bass, isaki, and kasago. Guess what? Yous'll get over it. After all, chef Gary Lei, an Uni alum, highlights the freshest and most flavorful fish around, and mercifully, his multicourse experiences don't come with the eye-popping prices attached to most omakase. See? Guilt vanquished. 2372 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140, umamiomakase.com.

Best Neighborhood Restaurant, Back Bay

Saltie Girl

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In the big-screen dramatization of the Back Bay's pandemic response, Saltie boss Kathy Sidell (Diane Keaton), megaphone in hand, directs an ground forces of staffers to shut adjacent-door Met Gild, give her popular oysteria the run of the larger space, and plough the original pint-size digs into a baller curbside seafood-pizza joint, as a triumphal French horn erupts in the groundwork. Which is...pretty shut to reality 281 Dartmouth St., Back Bay, MA 02116, saltiegirl.com.

Best Neighborhood Restaurant, Chinatown

Gourmet Mainland china House

Brian Samuels

One mean solar day, the Lyft-and-tunnel pilgrims lined up outside Chinatown establishment Gourmet Dumpling House will discover that the Taiwanese and Sichuan eats are even better at its spacious sibling across the street — with enough awfully (often offal-y) tasty options on its menu for the kung-pao-basic and goose-intestine-with-chive-flower-curious akin. 55 Beach St., Chinatown, MA 02111, gourmetchinahouse.com.

Best Neighborhood Restaurant, Dorchester

Ánh Hồng

Brian Samuels

Fields Corner has, well, cornered the market on top-tier Vietnamese, especially the magical half-mile stretch of Dot. Ave. dotted with a dozen joints serving exemplary banh mi and pho. Our current shell? Nearby Ánh Hồng, where the caramel-sauce catfish is a salty-sweet dream, licorice-laced broths gurgle with musky complication, and the seven-course beef banquet is priced right for Tuesday night. 291 Adams St., Dorchester, MA 02122, anhhongboston.com.

Best Neighborhood Eatery, Jamaica Manifestly

Brassica Kitchen + Café

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In its playful, never-ending quest to give the people what they want, Brassica has worn a dizzying number of hats this twelvemonth: breakfast nook, provisions kiosk, empanaderia, fish taverna. Along the mode, we worried fantastic carte fixtures like Brassica's hot, made-fresh-daily doughnuts might get overshadowed. Judging by how quickly they sell out, our fears were misplaced. 3710 Washington St., Jamaica Evidently, MA 02130, brassicakitchen.com.

Best Neighborhood Restaurant, Due north Stop

Tabular array

Brian Samuels

So what if the social-media-savvy owner's Twitter spats are spicier than the marinara? You tin gustation the passion that former sports reporter Jen Royle puts into gently cheffy spins on homey Italian fare like stuffed artichokes, craven Parm, and penne Bolognese. It's all made with honey and served on shareable platters with a lively-adjoining-on-raucous ambiance. In other words: as famiglia equally it gets. 445 Hanover St., Boston, MA 02113, tableboston.com.

All-time Neighborhood Restaurant, Eastward Boston

Tawakal Halal Café

Pat Piasecki

This national-caliber Somali kitchen makes and bottles its ain luxuriously supple-textured mango-habanero hot sauce, which adds merely the right zhoosh of incendiary complexity to kokosnoot-milk grits with slow-cooked chickpeas; unctuous braised goat (hilib ari) bursting with turmeric and cardamom; and, honestly, whatever leftover taking up space in your fridge correct at present. 389 Maverick St., East Boston, MA 02128, tawakalfoods.co.

All-time Neighborhood Restaurant, Roxbury

Fasika Café

Brian Samuels

From the springy tear of tangy injera cr&_ecirc;human foot to the supple pillowiness of raw chopped beefiness leavened with gobs of fiery-orangish spiced butter (kitfo), the tactile pleasures of Befekadu Defar's traditional (read: silverware-costless) Ethiopian fare are simply what the dr. ordered to reward your Purell-chafed hands for 16 months of ablutionary abuse. Your gustatory receptors will thank you, also. 51 Roxbury St., Roxbury, MA 02119, fasikarestaurants.com.

All-time Neighborhood Eating place, Fenway--Kenmore

India Quality

Brian Samuels

Information technology takes more than luscious caprine animal coconut curry to last 38 years in the city'due south near metamorphosis-decumbent neighborhood. You lot too demand the nimble flexibility to ride every wave. Truthful to course, the dear Punjab stalwart faced COVID head-on, augmenting its takeout menu with curbside vino and beer, hungry-family-size feasts, and more than a little brio (and paneer). indiaquality 484 Democracy Ave., Fenway/Kenmore, MA 02215, indiaquality.com.

All-time Neighborhood Restaurant, Fort Point--Seaport

Sportello

Brian Samuels

During the pandemic, Barbara Lynch's lunch-counter-mode trattoria, ever her empire'south undersung outlier, finally stepped into the spotlight as a curbside hub for scoring pan-imperial delights, including fresh pasta made in-firm; cheeseburgers and craft-cocktail kits by Beverage downstairs; and No. 9 Park'southward magical Bolognese sauce past the pint, quart, or trough 348 Congress St., Boston, MA 02210, sportelloboston.com.

All-time Neighborhood Restaurant, Due south Cease

Myers + Chang

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The secret to Myers + Chang's extended reign of relevancy is its unflappable execution. Among the topline findings of our fourteen-year investigation: The pork dumplings' flat-side burnish comes out mahogany-dark; tea-perfumed ribs arrive sporkably tender; and wok-charred carrots show up lubed to the nines with pudding-like blobs of salty miso butter. Every. Damn. Time. 1145 Washington St., S Cease, MA 02118, myersandchang.com.

Best Cupcakes

Sweet Tooth Boston

Photograph Kristin Teig, styling by Catrine Kelty

Bakeries too frequently make their cupcakes all about elaborate decorations. The actual cake, meanwhile, is a dry, disappointing afterthought. That's not the case at Sweetness Tooth, where fluffy, super-moist cupcakes are more than than a match for the rich pompadours of creamy frosting that crown them. The chocolate-ganache-topped Boston Cream, in detail, is a tasty twist on an iconic local treat. 371 W Broadway, South Boston, MA 02127, sweettoothboston.com.

Best Pies

Petsi Pies

Photograph Kristin Teig, styling by Catrine Kelty

Buttery as a shortbread cookie notwithstanding flaky every bit a cracker, Petsi's consistently perfect pie crusts made founder Renee McLeod a local legend. At present retired, McLeod withal helps new possessor Jill Remby develop recipes for equally fantastic fillings, including crisped apples, velvet-rich chocolate, and bourbon-splashed pecans. Plus, Petsi's just-launched scholarship fund is a sweet effort to encourage even more than Boston-area entrepreneurs. 285 Beacon St., Somerville, MA 02143, petsipies.com.

Best Croissants

La Saison Bakery

Photo Kristin Teig, styling by Catrine Kelty

Originally established by bakery Soheil Fathi in his native Tehran, La Saison was resettled in Cambridge in 2020. How lucky we were to receive its delightfully fragile pull-apart croissants, which are light and airy simply butter-rich, too. Fathi's deft dough-making skills likewise apply to his majestic kouign-amann, a circular relative to the croissant that features flaky, decadent folds of caramelized vanilla carbohydrate. 407 Concord Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, lasaison-bakery.com.

All-time Cannoli

Mike'due south Pastry

Photo Kristin Teig, styling by Catrine Kelty

Y'all can spot Mike's signature string-wrapped cannoli boxes in the hands of practically every tourist, and that'south exactly why some of our crabbier natives don't give the place its rightful due. Honestly, though, the cannolis deserve all of the attention they get, with a crackly-crunchy shell overstuffed with dumbo, sweet-and-cheesy ricotta. Only one bite reminds us why out-of-towners — and yes, enough of locals, too — volition always line up for them on Hanover Street. Multiple locations, mikespastry.com.

All-time Burger

Bred Gourmet

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No affair the time of year, the burgers sizzled here instantly evoke thoughts of sunny summer cookouts. That'due south considering Bred flattens and seasons its burgers correct on the grill, preserving the juiciness of eating house-quality, grass-fed Maine beef while lending the perfect outer char we love to seize with teeth into at lawn bashes with neighbors. The single most lip-smacking result might exist the Maui burger, a luau-like lineup of bright pineapple, grilled ham, sweet plantains, and spicy pepper Jack cheese, all doused in sauce from nearby M&Thousand BBQ. 2255 Dorchester Ave., Dorchester, MA 02124, bredgourmet.com.

Best Side Hustle Turned Artisan Food Biz

Petrova Chocolates

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When the pandemic sidelined her pastry gig at the Dorsum Bay's iconic Uni, Betty Petrova didn't sit down on her couch eating bonbons; instead, she took to the kitchen to start making them. Handpainted with colorful, glossy brushstrokes of cocoa butter, the bite-size works of art apace defenseless the heart of fans — so much so that now she'southward focused full time on crafting delicate Valrhona chocolate shells generously filled with exquisite, inventive flavors like honey elderflower, rose pistachio, and rosemary caramel, many using ingredients plucked from local gardens. petrovachocolates.com.

Best Up-and-Coming Chef

Hana Quon, Café Madeleine

At what point is an "upwards-and-coming chef" simply considered "arrived"? Quon probably passed that milepost a while ago, at to the lowest degree to those who've tasted her piece of work at Café Madeleine — which is to say, any South Ender with good taste and a hankering for, well, madeleines (or classic chocolate eclairs, or …). We'd still argue, though, that not plenty locals know her name, a side result of pastry chefs being by and large undervalued. This Paris-trained p&_acirc;tissi&_egrave;re'southward infrequent craft proves that time is over. 517 Columbus Ave., South End, MA 02118, instagram.com/cafemadeleineboston.

All-time CSA

Walden Local

There'due south a lot of talk well-nigh eating less meat right now, but the reality is that committed carnivores aren't going anywhere — well, except to this boutique street-corner butcher in the South Cease, which also offers monthly meat shares delivered on dry ice for sizzling at home. Not only are you getting valedictorian-grade grass-fed beef and pasture-raised pork, craven, and lamb (plus pescatarian-pleasing wild-caught fish), just it's all raised by minor Northeast farms, supporting the region'southward agriculture manufacture and giving united states of america more richly flavorful, special-treat-level meat. 316 A Shawmut Ave., South End, MA 02118, waldenlocalmeat.com.

Best Pop-upwardly Restaurant

Sekali

Whenever Sekali announces preorders on Instagram, the nutrient sells out faster than aeroplane tickets for post-vaccine vacations. Why? Because Borneo-built-in chef Derrick Teh's transportive, mod Malaysian-inspired recipes are world-class — from the jars of sweet and creamy coconut-milk jam he home-delivered during the pandemic to the plates of richly spiced brusque-rib rendang bachelor for pickup during his restaurant pop-ups. He doesn't accept his own brick-and-mortar (yet!), but with talent like this, he'll go far no matter what the future holds. instagram.com/sekaliboston.

Best Roast-Beef Sandwich

Cusser'southward Roast Beef & Seafood

Sorry, Kelly's: We'll gladly bypass Road one route rage in favor of this street-side walkup window in Boston's Back Bay (with an outpost at a nearby food hall), which perfects a beefy Northward Shore–manner "Three-way" sloppy with charcoal-broil sauce and mayo. More than that, though, it too dresses upwards its plump, brioche-like buns for the city: see the "80T," a mile-high pile of herb-rubbed Wagyu sliced thin, juicy, and pinkish, with sharply pickled onions that cutting through spicy aioli and cheddar. Multiple locations, cussersboston.com.

All-time At-Home Meal Kits

Tasting Counter

Considering how chained we've been to Zoom during workdays, a meal kit that includes a "virtual interactive dining experience" has to exist really, really skilful to become u.s.a. in forepart of a laptop on weekends. Exhibit A: TC@Dwelling, Saturday-night livestreams that guide the states through unboxing everything we demand to prepare and artfully plate courses of the aforementioned haute cuisine — say, dry out-aged duck with fermented fall olive — served at chef Peter Ungár's innovative fine-dining restaurant. Our rating? Two thumbs-up emojis. 14 Tyler St., Somerville, MA 02143, tastingcounter.com.

Best Chowder

Legal Sea Foods

When seafood titan Roger Berkowitz sold the local-born restaurant chain that his father conceived as a unmarried fish market in 1950, we had one important question nigh the new corporate owners: Would they — sky forbid! — mess with the family's famous chowder recipe? Thankfully, the answer is a definitive "hell no." Nothing inverse about those iconic cups of super-creamy chowder studded with sweet clams, though as with every taken-for-granted pleasance, we found nosotros loved it more for the sudden fear of losing it. Multiple locations, legalseafoods.com.

Best Brewery

Brato Brewhouse + Kitchen

Considering all of the arts and crafts-beer cans crushed in Allston/Brighton'due south indie-rock-blaring confined, it's wild that the neighborhood didn't have its ain brewery until Brato moved in in 2019. At present, beer lovers citywide flock at that place to fill up growlers with full-bodied sour beers and smooth saisons, and/or get their grub on with gourmet grilled-cheese flights and inventive business firm-made bratwursts. Head brewer Alex Corona and chef Jonathan Gilman both come from Cambridge Brewing Visitor, an manufacture pioneer, and here they're blazing a trail of their own. 190 N. Beacon St., Brighton, MA 02135, bratobk.com.

Best Jewish Cafeteria

Michael's Cafeteria

Our New York friends won't let us forget information technology: Boston doesn't exactly abound with traditional Jewish delis. Even Manhattan, though, would exist lucky to have Michael's, which epitomizes everything you're looking for in the deli experience — namely, sandwiches with meats stacked high enough to fissure your jaw, bitingly sharp horseradish, and a hint of something green (and probably pickled). Remember to order a side of latkes for your mom, then stand aside and await for your proper name to be yelled. Ah, yep! That feels merely right. 256 Harvard St., Brookline, MA 02446, michaelsdelibrookline.com.

Best Brunch

Harvest

Out of Town News? Folded. The Curious George shop? Closed. Harvard Foursquare has lost many landmarks, but Harvest endures through all seasons — probable considering its brunch remains the all-time reason around to get out of bed. The 46-yr-old institution's new chef, Nick Deutmeyer, carries on the very civilized tradition, serving up tempting weekend treats such every bit fried chicken and waffles dripping with foie gras butter, burnt honey, and wild-apple purée. The Ivy League eavesdropping is timeless, too. 44 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA 02138, harvestcambridge.com.

Best Lobster Curl

Row 34

The recent shuttering of seafood landmark Island Creek Oyster Bar has made us even more than protective of chef Jeremy Sewall'south legendary lobster roll, which lives on (thank heavens!) at his Row 34. There we notice heaping portions of sweet and tender meat, caught by Sewall'south cousin, a Maine lobsterman. It's served tossed in warm butter and sprinkled with body of water salt, or mixed with cool mayo, cr&_egrave;me fra&_icirc;che, and pickles for "Ethel's Lobster Ringlet," named for Sewall's grandmother — a family recipe for lasting success if at that place ever was one. Multiple locations, row34.com.

Best Tacos

Villa México Café

Telecommuting has its perks, but none are every bit tasty as the grilled corn tortillas — with fillings similar tender marinated chicken in a rich, complex mole sauce — that function crowds snatch upwards from this beloved stalwart of the downtown-lunch-60 minutes scene. Fabricated with palpable passion by matriarch Julie King and her daughter, industry advocate Bessie, the tacos are destination-worthy no matter where yous piece of work, but take a tip from the regulars and drench your carnitas in Villa México's transcendent black salsa, at present sold by the jar for snacking at home. 121 Water St., Financial Commune, MA 02109, villamexicocafe.us.

Best Pizza

Dark Shift Brewing

You'll discover plenty of quondam-school Neapolitan and Sicilian slices in the neighboring North Cease, but if you're craving Detroit-style pizza — a square-cutting multifariousness slowly starting to appear in Boston — you lot'll need to stop by this immature TD Garden–side brewery, which tapped a super-talented team of Eastern Standard alums to perfect its recipe. Locally milled high-gluten flour yields a wonderfully chewy, sheet-pan-deep pie built with sweet tomato sauce on superlative of salty, tangy cheese that reaches all the way to the caramelized edge — and don't forget the crispy, estrus-curled cups of dry-aged pepperoni. 1 Lovejoy Wharf, West Terminate, MA 02114, nightshiftbrewing.com.

Best Wine Shop

Urban Grape

How does a bazaar Boston wine shop go one of America's nearly lauded? First, owners TJ and Hadley Douglas introduced the world to their proprietary Progressive Scale, a newbie-friendly organization that smartly sorts wines by weight, from light minerality to total-bodied fruitiness. Now they're working to change the industry by establishing a fully endowed, annual Vino Studies Award, which provides university education and work feel to promising professionals of color, and by curating the state'due south coolest collections of wines by female, BIPOC, or LGBTQ+ producers. 303 Columbus Ave., Due south Stop, MA 02116, theurbangrape.shop.

Best Coffee Store

Awe-inspiring Market

Where can you score a bold nevertheless balanced loving cup of coffee, mouthwatering pastries, and the perfect background tunes for sipping your java back at home? This quick-finish shop, which represents the collaborative entrepreneurship that is the time to come of Boston's food world: Baker Kelsey Munger and bean roaster Javier Amador-Peña met at a farmers' market, opened Awe-inspiring together, and tapped local Light of Mean solar day Records to stock the space with new and (inexpensive!) vintage vinyls. Blueberry muffins, cold brew, and David Bowie — yep, please. 36 South St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130, monumentalmarket.com.

Best Gluten-Free Menu

Grainmaker

Finally, Bostonians with gluten allergies can grab fantastic fast-casual meals without fear of cross-contagion. At Grainmaker, guests make full rice, noodle, or salad bowls with vibrantly flavored fixings like sweet-chili shrimp, lemongrass steak, pickled veggies, and zippy sauces such as spicy hoisin — all with absolutely no gluten (or dairy) in sight. It's a surprisingly difficult-to-discover concept we promise catches on, and hither'south another: Grainmaker'southward pioneering approach to reusable packaging, which gives customers discounts for choosing the eating place'due south returnable glass takeout containers and, in the process, saves thousands of pounds of waste matter. Multiple locations, eatgrainmaker.com.

Best Barbecue

The Smoke Store

With the pandemic-time add-on of a quaternary Smoke Shop location — this one in Harvard Square — we're at present never more than a fork'due south distance away from Andy Husbands'due south tender pulled craven or best-in-grade burnt ends. The chef recently released his 6th cookbook, The Smoke Shop's Backyard BBQ, but we'll still leave our smoked-meat cravings to the pitmaster every bit often as possible. Multiple locations, thesmokeshopbbq.com.

Best Southern and Soul Nutrient

Darryl's Corner Bar & Kitchen

Soul food meets soulful music at this longtime fixture, where live entertainment is the soundtrack for dinner and brunch service featuring dressed-up southern comforts like country-fried chicken wings with sweet peach chili and oh-so-perfect collard greens. The bands play on thanks to still-new possessor Nia Grace, who not only stewarded the storied spot to the other side of a pandemic, but — as cofounder of the recently launched Boston Black Hospitality Coalition — uses her significant stage to advocate for a more than equitable eating house manufacture in the urban center. 604 Columbus Ave., South Terminate, MA 02118, dcbkboston.com.

Best Community Goad

Commonwealth Kitchen

For a preview of the next large thing in Boston restaurants, check out whatever'due south cooking at CommonWealth Kitchen. Dorchester bakery Top Shelf cookies and jerk-spiced J.P. spot Jamaica Mi Hungry are amid the dozens of success stories born out of the important incubator, which connects fledgling food entrepreneurs — specially woman- and BIPOC-endemic oufits — to both product facilities and brick-and-mortar eating house spaces, including an upcoming food court at MIT. 196 Quincy St., Dorchester, MA 02121, commonwealthkitchen.org.

Best City Subcontract

Urban Farming Constitute

Past grooming urban farmers at its 7 (and growing!) plots across Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan — and then selling their harvest to expanse restaurants like Dudley Café and Fresh Food Generation — this nonprofit helps Bostonians plant deeper roots, literally, fifty-fifty in neighborhoods where grassy space is sparse. And when we build improve-fed families and healthier communities, we all reap the benefits. 487 Norfolk St., Mattapan, MA 02126, urbanfarminginstitute.org.

Best Ramen

Ganko Ittetsu

Tucked inside a historical arcade-style mini mall in Brookline, you'd never know this pint-size restaurant is the identify to go shopping for the area'south best bowls of savory ramen. Ganko Ittetsu nonetheless stands out for serving its eminently slurpable noodle soup Sapporo-style, meaning everything is painstakingly prepared in a wok. The upshot? Especially deep, soul-warming flavors with undertones of caramelization that evoke simply one discussion: sold! 318 Harvard St., Brookline, MA 02446, gankoramen.com.

Best Pasta

Fox & the Pocketknife

Our nonnas could debate for hours about what defines the perfect pasta. One thing they would all agree on, though, is the distinctive precision and vision at work in Karen Akunowicz'south kitchen, from the just-and then suppleness of her raviolo carbonara to the tortelli, cooked a tiny flake al dente in a buttery green bath of wild nettles, English peas, and garlic. On your way out, scoop up fresh-made styles sold by the bagged pound for your own cooking adventures — and become excited for the in-house pasta shop planned for Bar Volpe, Akunowicz'southward upcoming 2nd Southie eating place. 28 W. Broadway, S Boston, MA 02127, foxandtheknife.com.

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