Best of Boston

Best Chowder

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»
2002 Best Chowder

The Barking Crab

Boston
For a city with perhaps the nation's highest expectations for clam chowder, Boston offers a pitiful few truly good renditions. Most versions have degenerated into [...] read more»
2001 Best Chowder

KingFish Hall

Boston
Unless your mother has the culinary savoir-faire of Todd English, you likely did not grow up on "chowdah" that tasted anything like what you'll find [...] read more»
2000 Best Chowder, Gourmet

Locke-Ober

Boston
Time is on Locke-Ober's side. Having stood in the same location on Winter Place since 1875, this Brahmin institution has learned to season its classic [...] read more»
2000 Best Chowder, Affordable

Barking Crab

Boston
Not an appetizing name for a restaurant, but the Barking Crab's outdoor location along Fort Point Channel makes for an appetizing setting in which to [...] 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»