Someone wrote: > 1. We ate at a Chinese restaurant in the theater district that was very >nice and the food was outstanding. I lived in San Franciso for a number of There was only one Chinese restaurant that I know of in the Theater District--Joyce Chen's. It closed earlier this year, and was replaced with a brew pub called Brew Moon. There is still one Joyce Chen restaurant operating in Cambridge, near the Alewife T stop (Red line). However, quality at the Joyce Chen restaurants was said to suffer after Joyce was no longer able to run the business due to illness. They still do have some fans though. My wife works near the Joyce Chen in Cambridge, and as a result, has sampled their food on quite a few occasions. Her review: Avoid. Near the Theater District, there are quite a few good Chinese restaurants in Chinatown. Try East Ocean City, Grand Chau Chow, Asian Garden or Ho Yuen Ting for excellent Hong Kong/Cantonese style seafood. HYT also has an excellent beef with ginger and scallion hot pot. Don't order spicy Szechuan or Hunan dishes from any of these places though; most Chinatown restaurants have no idea how to cook these dishes. For slightly spicier food, and some (slightly) more Northern style dishes, you can try New Shanghai, also in Chinatown. Nicer decor than most Chinatown places; I had a bad experience with this place right after it opened, but lots of people seem to like it (including the food critics in the Boston Globe and the Boston Phoenix), so I am thinking of giving it another try. >2. We ate at an Italian restaurant called Pagliuca's. Is it still there >and can you give me an update on the food quality. It was very good when As far as I know, it still exists at 14 Parmenter St (near Hanover St.). I have never been there, so I can't tell you about food quality. In the same general area and price range, you might also try Il Panino, Giacamo's (Italian seafood), The Daily Catch (Italian seafood, specializing in calimari), and Massimino's.
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