Moona is a Mediterranean restaurant in Inman Square serving a variety of small plates.

La Morra is an Italian restaurant in Brookline with excellent small plates and pastas.

Sound Advice is a craft cocktail bar located inside ArcLight Cinemas at TD Garden.

Create is a tiny art gallery and cocktail bar in Union Square’s Bow Market.

Ittoku is a Porter Square izakaya inside a windowless mall, and it’s better and way more fun than you expect a restaurant in a windowless mall to be.

Barcelona is a good tapas spot in the South End.

Chalawan is a Southeast Asian restaurant in Porter Square that reinforces the idea that Porter Square is secretly one of our best food neighborhoods.

Carrie Nation is a restaurant and cocktail bar in Downtown Boston. It does one of those thing much better than the other.

Better Sorts is a Downtown Boston cocktail bar with great cocktails, trippy deer portraits on the wall, and couches to take it all in.

Picco is a South End spot that does two very important things - beer and pizza - very well.

Fat Baby is a sushi place in South Boston where the focus less on the sushi and more on the fun.

Loco Taqueria is a really crowded and fun taco bar in South Boston.

Ilona is an Eastern Mediterranean restaurant in the South End. It’s a beautiful spot filled with beautiful South End people, and the food is great.

Parlour is an American place in Coolidge Corner with good small plates and cocktails.

Longfellow bar is a high-end cocktail bar in Harvard Square with excellent food that you eat with your hands.

Lone Star is a tiny bar in Allston that serves big tacos and other good Tex-Mex.