Restaurants in Boston for the global diner

RESTAURANTS, BOSTON Updated : Jan 13, 2015, 03.26 PM IST

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If you enjoy good food cooked with great flair, the restaurants in Boston will surpass you expectations. The city has a wide range of venues catering to a global palate—whether you want to dine at a world-acclaimed celebrity chef restaurant, or explore one of the fun and informal joints—there’s nothing you can’t find here. Given its coastal location, the seafood in the city is definitely top notch, and local favourites like clam chowder, lobster rolls and oyster stew are definitely worth a try.
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Multi-cuisine

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Barking Crab

The Barking Crab's back patio, complete with carnival tent awning, is set upon a rustic pier that juts over the water, providing a bit of seaside summer for its patrons who are willing to crowd around picnic tables to en...more

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Multi-cuisine

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Cuchi Cuchi

The intimate space, whose lighting casts a sultry glow on everyone within, is accented with antique lamps, embroidered brocade, and all things - especially the staff - gilded, fringed, and feathered. The servers and bart...more

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American

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Henrietta's Table

Highlighting the sophistication in simplicity, Henrietta's Table serves reinterpreted classics made with the freshest ingredients from local farming and fishing communities. Familiar homestyle dishes are recreated with f...more

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American

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Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage

Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage, est. in 1960 by the Bartleys who still own the beloved eatery, is one of the few remaining old-timer establishments in an increasingly gentrified Harvard Square. Space is tight, but the mood...more

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Seafood

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Neptune Oyster

Pristine fresh seafood is the focus here at Neptune Oyster, whose most popular offerings are raw and unadorned, a testament to its freshness. Raw bar devotees aside, the North End eatery also wins praise for its more com...more

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Vietnamese

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New Saigon Sandwich

In Boston's labyrinthine Chinatown is a crevice-in-the-wall called New Saigon Sandwich that sells Vietnamese banh mi, spring rolls, and various flavors of bubble tea, served hot or cold with chewy tapioca pearls. The amb...more

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Multi-cuisine

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No. 9 Park

Overlooking Boston Common, No. 9 charms patrons with superb creative interpretations of French and Italian dishes by star chef Barbara Lynch. The restaurant is also lauded for its exquisite wine list, knowledgeable and f...more

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Barbeque

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Redbones

Take a break from your Yankee tour and drop into Redbones, a rowdy BBQ joint in Inman Square. You'll swear you've found a secret passage to a Southern backyard cookout, where the meat never stops smoking and the beer kee...more

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American

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Ten Tables

Settle at one of the ten tables in this candlelit boîte, which is designed to evoke a cozy dinner party for your most discriminating friends and neighbors. The exposed brick and reclaimed wood of the decor reflects the r...more

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Multi-cuisine

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Toro

This classy joint from Boston foodie personality Ken Oringer - he also owns Clio - is usually packed with the city's young movers and shakers, who come to gorge on Massachusetts-inspired tapas (think seafood, potatoes, a...more

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Multi-cuisine

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Union Oyster House

Visitors to the Union Oyster House come not so much for the food as for the thrill of eating the same dish in the same spot as some of America's historical figures. You can claim a stool at the raw bar and slurp oysters ...more

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