Jolyon Helterman

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What does “coastal Italian” mean, anyway? At Ken Oringer and Jamie Bissonnette’s Faccia Brutta, it means a lot of things—most of them very, very good.

It’s precious. It’s punishingly expensive. It gets booked out months in advance. Why 15 years into its remarkable run plying luxed-up Japanese bites, O Ya may be the most reliably sublime dining splurge in town.

Sorting out the hits, myths, and sticky wickets at Wusong Road over mai tais and handmade crab rangoons.

A world-famous chef from Belmont comes home to open Bar Enza, a trattoria at the Charles Hotel. Does his legendary lasagna travel, too?

How much hassle are you willing to put up with for extraordinary Italian?

An unlikely rule of thumb for landing a stellar meal at Atlántico, the South End’s new(ish) seafood-focused tapas spot: Skip the tapas.

Dynamite drinks and Thai food are the ball game at Mahaniyom, where the sharply focused kitchen dares to not do everything.

A powerhouse Fenway chef rolls out a cunning (re)vision of red-sauce Italian for the Roaring 2020s.

Ben Sukle, a James Beard Award nominee, serves frameable dishes to a fashionable counter.

Jolyon Helterman visits the Table at Season to Taste, in Cambridge. 

With gushing, exuberant, indefatigably upbeat charm, the foodie hype machine is destroying the soul of dining out.

Enough already with the vodka drinks tarted up with bitters, herbs, citrus peel, and flowery cordials. It’s time to embrace the real thing—gin.

Neighborhood gem, or haute-Mex me-too? It’s a little of both.

Boston’s early risers have never had better dining options. Behold, your new rules for sleuthing out the cream of the Cream of Wheat.

What’s missing from post-summer Provincetown? Crowded sidewalks, oppressive heat, and touristy “celebrations.”