Best of Boston
Best Chowder, Clam
Legal Sea Foods
Boston
You don't mess with success. Legal's classic formula—a creamy base, loads of clam flavor, firm potato chunks—has been warming Bostonians' souls for decades. It even [...] read more»
2016 Best Chowder, Clam
Sonsie
Boston
We know what you’re thinking: With all the seafood joints in Boston, you landed on Sonsie? Stifle your preconceptions for a moment, because when it [...] read more»
2015 Best Chowder, Clam
The Daily Catch Seaport
Boston
With a just creamy enough texture, generous potato chunks, meaty pieces of clam, and a house-made biscuit in place of the requisite oyster crackers, the [...] read more»
2013 Best Chowder, Clam
B & G Oysters
Boston
Anatomy of a Winner: Here in Boston, it's tough to stand out in a veritable ocean of chowdah. Here's how Barbara Lynch's oyster bar shows [...] read more»
2012 Best Chowder, Clam
Ned Devine’s
Boston
That's right—Ned Devine's. We were won over by the buttery, not-too-thick texture, bits of fresh thyme, and sweet, chopped cockles and clams that make this [...] read more»
2007 Best Chowder, Clam
Great Bay
Boston
A pure, fine broth; a smoky backbone of bacon; and plump whole mollusks elevate this above the gluey sludge commonly doled out to tourists. No [...] read more»
2005 Best Chowder, Clam
Turner Fisheries Restaurant & Bar
Boston
Experimentation may be the spice of fine dining, but chowder demands tradition. To heretics inclined to load their chowder with corn, carrots, or—God forbid—Baileys Irish [...] read more»
2004 Best Chowder, Clam
Turner Fisheries
Boston
Chowder, that most traditional of New England foods, could never be invented today. Leaving aside the Manhattanite abomination, a good chowder, with its base of [...] read more»
2003 Best Chowder, Clam
The Times Bar and Restaurant
Boston
To hell with baked beans. Clam chowder is Boston's crowning food—not potato, not flour, but clam. That's a distinction understood at the Times, an otherwise [...] read more»
1998 Best Chowder, Clam
Legal Sea Foods
Not one but two versions! There is the sinful creamy chowder most of you already know and love, and a low-fat version, a secret treasure [...] read more»
1997 Best Chowder, Clam
Turner Fisheries of Boston
Boston
This is another one of those Boston traditions that seems simple enough, but is repeatedly botched by ambitious amateurs. Turner Fisheries sticks to the basics—a [...] read more»