Weekend Dining Recommendations: So Many New Restaurants to Try

By Rachel Leah Blumenthal The last two weeks have been packed full of new restaurant openings, so to kick off today’s round-up of weekend dining ideas, here are all the brand new restaurants you could try — so many brand new restaurants — listed alphabetically...

First Look: Bar Mezzana, Now Open in the South End

By Scott Kearnan Can’t make it to the Amalfi coast? SoWa will do just fine. Last week, doors opened at one of the year’s most highly anticipated restaurants: Bar Mezzana, an Italian newcomer from husband-wife team Colin and Heather Lynch (both previously...

Haute Secrets Boston: Kathie Chrisicos

One of Boston’s hautest interior designers has recently opened a new design studio, Chrisicos Interiors, across from The Four Seasons Hotel.  Kathie Chrisicos specializes in transforming residential and commercial properties into luxury works of interior artistic...

After years at Drink, bartender Josey Packard on her next chapter

By Catherine Smart During her 8½-year tenure behind the bar at Drink, Josey Packard crafted many fine high-end cocktails. But the bartender — who recently departed the Fort Point establishment to join fellow Barbara Lynch alums at Bar Mezzana — believes there is no...

Go Fish

By Courtney Hollands Boston has long been synonymous with seafood, and its top-notch restaurants bolster that briny reputation. It’s no coincidence that the country’s oldest continually operating restaurant–the Union Oyster House, slinging bivalves...

How to Make the Sophia, a Spritz at Bar Mezzana

By Liza Weisstuch For many years, if you asked me what drink I associate with Italy, I’d say Super Tuscan or some other exquisite vino. Then spritzes came around — rather, back around. Not the white wine spritzes that remain a cringe-worthy hallmark of the 1980s, but...

Que Padre Taqueria y Mas Puts Pause on Food Truck Plans

By Dana Hatic An East Boston restaurant that closed two years ago was originally set to reopen as a food truck serving Mexican and Bolivian fare, but the owner has since changed his plans. Victor Duran, owner and chef of Que Padre Taqueria y Mas, will be joining the...

Fuji at Ink Block Sails Sushi Boats into the South End on August 3

By Dana Hatic Nearly 20 years after first entering the Greater Boston restaurant world, the JP Fuji Group continues to build its empire and will extend the realm next month with the addition of its newest restaurant in the South End. Fuji at Ink Block will grandly...