Best of Boston

Chef-legend Lydia Shire continues to contemporize Italian-oriented cuisine at Scampo, even while broadening the global horizons of the Liberty Hotel’s lively restaurant, a popular gathering place for Beacon Hill residents and tourists alike. Her Robiola risotto with fried quail and candied walnuts, for example, is exactly not how Nonna would make it (as if Nonna would even dare!).