Original article posted to rec.food.restaurants; I added the cross posting to ne.food, for obvious reasons. JEREMY H. wrote: >I would like some suggestions on the following types of restaurants in the >Boston area. A $12-$15/ person price range is fine. A general suggestion: check out the Boston-area restaurant guide, frequently posted on ne.food and rec.food.restaurants. Also available on WWW, but I don't have the reference handy. >French Sort of hard to do in that price range. About my only recommendation is to check out the prix fix at Maison Robert, but that might be twenty dollars/person by now. Phone them and ask; they might have some specials some nights. >Chinese A lot of choices. My current favorites in Chinatown are Chau Chow and China Pearl. In Coolidge Corner, try Noble House for Szechuan. I like the Peking Duck at Shanghai in Chinatown and at Chef Chang's in Brookline. >Greek Very hard to get in Boston; I defer to others here. >Vietnamese (Already know Elephant Walk) Elephant Walk is actually Cambodian. Among the many good Vietnamese restaurants in Allston, I prefer Pho Pasteur, but others have their partisans. I suggest avoiding Angkor Wat in Brookline, despite a favorable review in the Phoenix recently. >Mexican Again, very hard to get in this area. >Japanese Many, many good possibilities. There are regular postings from the Boston Sushi Society to this group; I suggest that you check them out before eating.--Rob
Boston, MA
Restaurants in Boston
Someone wrote:
: I would like some suggestions on the following types of restaurants in the
: Boston area. A $12-$15/ person price range is fine.
: Chinese
Ho Yuen Ting, 13 1/2 Hudson Street, Chinatown. Good stuff: hot pots, any
seafood, Peking ravioli, any soups.
: Vietnamese (Already know Elephant Walk)
Elephant Walk's not Vietnamese. It's French and Cambodian. For
Vietnamese, I'd recommend Pho Pasteur in Allston. Good stuff: lemongrass
chicken, spring rolls, and of course the pho.
: Mexican
Mexican Cuisine, Mass Ave, Cambridge. Menu is predominantly seafood.
The place looks like a bar (well, half of it IS a bar) but the food is
excellent.
: Japanese
Miyako on Newbury Street or Tokyo on Fresh Pond Parkway. Either is very
good, but one location may be more convenient than the other.
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"Stupid woman! You knew I was a snake when you picked me up."Two points I'd like to follow up on: Greek restaurants are hard to find if youa re looking for good food. There are three that come to mind. The first is the Athenian corner on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge (I've tried it and I didn't like it). The second is a little place called Nick's on Harvard Street in Brookline (just aweful). My last hope is a place in the theater district which I haven't tried yet (don't know the name or the street off hand). This place looks good but I don't have high hopes. Nothin in Boston can compare to what you can find in the Astoria section of NYC. Oh, there's also another Nick's on Newbury. This is good for a quick meal but not authentic by any stretch. I'm looking for a place where I can get good roast meats, good appetizers such as dolmades and tsatziki. They should also serve retsina wine and have some authentic greek atmosphere (music, decor). Fresh baked "country" bread and and acceptable feta cheese is also a must. If the situation doesn't improve I'm tempted to open my own place if I can find at least one other person who's interested. I'm only half-serious. When it comes to pasteries the situation improves a little. Nicks on Newbury has decent stuff there. On Mexican.. one place I've tried, liked it and gone back to is Casa Maxico in Harvard Sq. It's small, cramped and dim but the food is nice. -Jim.
An excellent Chinese restaurant in Boston is East Ocean City, which was recently renovated with a glass and aqua colored eave and a polished granite tile wall with a fishtank in the window. Two of my favorite things to get there are the duck with taro (on the specialty menu) and the squid (calamari) with spicy salt (fried). Their Tofu with shrimp is also good; seafood is their specialty and I have never been disappointed there although more recently their rice has been a little on the dry side for me (I like very sticky rice). For Japanese, you can try Gyahama on Boylston Street (almost directly across from the Star Market in the Pru Center) for sushi, but they do not offer non smoking. A restaurant on Prospect Street in Cambridge (heading away from the river from Mass Av) called Koreana also has good sushi, and the Korean dishes there, esp. the noodles and soups (hot pots) are also very good. There is also the Japanese mall within the Porter Square mall (it's where there is a Gap and looks like a 1950's masonry telephone company building on the right hand side as you leave Harvard Square). Elephant Walk is excellent, I agree. A good take-out Thai place is the King & I on Beacon Hill on Charles Street near the end where the T stop is. There is the Green Street Grill on Green St near Central Square. It serves many Jamaican dishes and is quite reasonable. Once I had pumpkin ravioli there and they were great. Brazilian you can go to Pampas on Mass Av or Dali on Cambridge (?) which is on the same street as the seminary school at Harvard. A great Spanish restaurant in Harvard Square is ojust down an alley on JFK (Aruna). I hope you enjoy these restaurants as much as I have during my time there. Nancy Yuen
Nancy Y. wrote: >Brazilian you can go to Pampas on Mass Av or Dali on Cambridge >(?) which is on the same street as the seminary school at >Harvard. > >A great Spanish restaurant in Harvard Square is ojust down an >alley on JFK (Aruna). I agree that Pampas is a nice Brazilian place. Dali is my favorite restaurant in Boston (though I only ate there once and haven't been back to Boston since), but it is Spanish, not Brazilian. I liked it much better than Irun~a. Daniel
Someone wrote: : I agree that Pampas is a nice Brazilian place. If you want to go to a Brazillian churassaria (sp?) - basically the kind of restaurant that serves endless skewers of meat, such as Pampas, I would instead recommend The Midwest Grill in Inman Square. Despite the "all-American" sounding name it is, in fact, and excellent Brazillian restaurant. Better IMHO than Pampas (which I have been to many times). : Dali is my favorite restaurant in Boston (though I only ate there once : and haven't been back to Boston since), but it is Spanish, not : Brazilian. I liked it much better than Irun~a. Dali is one of my favorite restaurants in Boston. - david
In article [email removed] (James Griggs) writes: >Someone wrote: >: Two points I'd like to follow up on: >: Greek restaurants are hard to find if youa re looking for good food. >: There are three that come to mind. The first is the Athenian corner on >: Mass. Ave. in Cambridge (I've tried it and I didn't like it). The second >: is a little place called Nick's on Harvard Street in Brookline (just >: aweful). My last hope is a place in the theater district which I haven't >: tried yet (don't know the name or the street off hand). This place looks >: good but I don't have high hopes. "Omonia", on Charles Street South. Got a _very_ fine review in the latest Zagat, but I too have not made it there. Also: Sultan's Kitchen on Broad Street in the financial district, for lunch only. It's not quite Greek (the owner is Turkish), but is very close, and very, very, good. _KMP
The Corner Restaurant in Cambridge (on Mass Ave almost near the Arlington Border) is a pretty good Greek restaurant. -Farzana
Someone wrote: : Hi! I am a New England native. The best seafood in Boston is the No Name Restaurant. It is on the water--check yellow pages. If you tell me your tastes I will add to your list. : -- : Dr. Elizabeth Athaide-Victor Sorry, Doc, as another New England native, I must say that No Name has gone so far down hill over the past 15 years that it isn't even worth visiting anymore. Or are you simply being proprietary and shooing a tourist off to an appropriate tourist trap? :-) (if that's the case, why bother with seafood? Just steer them to any of the hundred or so "legitimate" "Cheers" bars...tee hee hee). NoName just ain't what it used to be back when it was mostly a lunch spot for the dock workers, and really had no name, or sign (back in my high school/college days). For seafood, do Turners Fisheries (IMHO, the absolute best, hands down), or, if you must, Legal Seafoods. Many locals think SkipJacks is tops, although I do not agree. They are all within a few blocks of each other (Copley Square area). good luck, -kmm
Boston has tons of really good ethnic restaurants which are very inexpensive. I was there last weekend and had a wonderful meal at "Salamanders", which is at #1 Athenaeum (sic?) in Cambridge - very interesting new american food which asian overtones in a very eccentric setting. Also, the Hyatt in Cambridge has a nice Italian place on their top floor revolving restaurant, overlooking the Charles river and downtown Boston! Either of those should fit your request and be an event as well! Hope this helps.