Massachusetts

Trina’s Starlite Lounge on Beacon Street in Somerville’s Inman Square neighborhood has been a city pub and bar food institution since it opened, combining a serious cocktail and craft beer program with scratch-made bar food and the kind of retro lounge atmosphere that makes a Somerville neighborhood bar feel like a destination worth crossing the

Saus on Union Street in Boston’s Financial District has been a city Belgian fry and craft beer institution since it opened, building a menu around the Belgian frites tradition — hand-cut potatoes fried twice in the European style and served with a rotating array of house-made dipping sauces — that earns a downtown Boston restaurant

Cafe Polonia on Dorchester Avenue in Boston’s South Boston neighborhood has been serving authentic Polish home cooking to the Boston Polish community and the curious eaters who discovered it since it opened, building a menu around the pierogi, kielbasa, and the slow-cooked Polish comfort food that earns a neighborhood restaurant its loyal following in a

Yankee Lobster Company on Northern Avenue in Boston’s Seaport District has been a waterfront seafood market and restaurant since the Zanti family opened it, combining a working lobster and seafood wholesale operation with a retail market and casual seafood restaurant that serves the freshest New England seafood available — because the boats unload a few