Colin Kingsbury

Restaurants

Dining Out: Havana Good Time

For its latest hot spot, a glittery restaurant group toys with modern Cuban cuisine—and a liberal application of excess.

Restaurants

Dining Out: Raising the Steaks

Rare, Encore Boston Harbor’s destination for prime chops, is slick, swanky—and a bit undercooked.

Restaurants

Dining Out: Gustazo

A suburban Cuban restaurant exports a bigger, boozier location to Cambridge.

Restaurants

Dining Out: Kamakura

A bold-for-Boston Japanese restaurant is a polished, if imperfect, exercise in ambition.

Restaurants

Dining Out: Nahita

All that glitters is not gold at this posh restaurant group’s Boston debut.

Restaurants

Restaurant Review: Chickadee

The millennial restaurant comes of age with a plucky Seaport addition.

Restaurants

Dining Out: Southern Proper

Our critic visits Southern Proper, in the South End.

City Life

The Battle for Boston

One of the distinguishing traits of great cities is that they’re furiously alive, which is to say they’re constantly changing.

Staff Meal Food Truck

Trucked Up

Boston claims to be a center for innovation. So why is City Hall smothering the food-truck industry?

Hell Yeah, I Love My Car

The anti-car movement needs to get off its high bicycle and accept a simple fact — living in Boston without a car sucks.

License to Buzzkill

What do you call a state run by a bunch of nannying killjoys? Massachusetts.

Cashed Out

If allowing suckers to drop the nest egg on slot machines is how Massachusetts will fix its money problem, let’s at least have some fun on the way to social ruin.