Best of Boston

Best Chinese Restaurant

1988 Best Chinese Restaurant

Carl’s Padoga

Boston
Tiny, open only for dinner, and BYOB, but Carl's steamed fish has a legion of devotees. read more»
1987 Best Chinese Restaurant

Ho Yuen Ting

Boston
A taste of the Orient. read more»
1986 Best Chinese Restaurant

Chef Chang’s

Brookline
Great Peking duck and a flair with seafood. read more»
1985 Best Chinese Restaurant

Sally Ling’s

Newton
While the Boston Waterfront location is fancier, the Newton outpost of Ling's gives better overall value. read more»
1984 Best Chinese Restaurant

Chef Chang’s House

Brookline
Where else can you get Peking duck without calling ahead? read more»
1983 Best Chinese Restaurant

Moon Villa

Boston
Regardless of the Globe Spotlight Team's investigation into after-hours clubs and unlicensed premises serving alcohol, Moon Villa is a superlative restaurant. The waiters aren't surly [...] read more»
1982 Best Chinese Restaurant

Mary Chung

Cambridge
In recent years, Cambridge has become a cornucopia of good Chinese cooking. And Mary Chung, a newcomer, is the best. read more»
1981 Best Chinese Restaurant, Chinatown

China Pavillion

Boston
This one kind of snuck up on us. Excellent menu top to bottom (unusual for Chinatown), with outstanding dim sum and clams in black-bean sauce. read more»
1981 Best Chinese Restaurant, Outside Chinatown

Peking on Fresh Pond

Cambridge
A big, overdecorated room that kind of looks like a United Auto Workers hall gone oriental. The seafood's excellent here, and the menu long and [...] read more»
1980 Best Chinese Restaurant, Chinatown

Carl’s Pagoda

Boston
It's nice to see what happens when an owner—in this case Carl Seeto—makes an extra effort to handpick his raw materials. read more»