There's outdoor seating in warm weather. The city's recent restaurant smoking ban means an unusually large cluster of people around the bar here. Outdoor seating in warm weather. Stylish, pricy and still playful after a decade in business, this is one of the cornerstones of the city's growing culinary reputation. Chefs Lydia Shire and Susan Regis pull off neat tricks with quirky ingredients such as skate wing, garlic shoots and oxtail, still setting the standard for creative, eclectic cooking in Boston.
Desserts are to die for.
There is something exquisite and un-Bostonian about this tiny restaurant, built into the back of the imposing men's clothing store Louis . There's a carpenter in Vermont who makes a living simply by providing these restaurants with their wood panelling. In classic steakhouse fashion, you order vegetables separately, if at all. It's also very, very good. The dining room is quiet and attracts an older crowd than the trendy Newbury Street spots nearby.