Best of Boston
Best French Restaurant
2008 Best French Restaurant
L’Espalier
Boston
While the intimacy of the old Gloucester Street townhouse will be missed, L'Espalier has reinvigorated its kitchen in preparation for a move to tony new [...] read more»
2007 Best French Restaurant, Affordable
Petit Robert Bistro
Boston
Tuck into homemade pates, rich onion and leek soups, sardine sandwiches, and solid meat and seafood options. Sugar-bomb desserts cap off a feast made for [...] read more»
2007 Best French Restaurant
Hamersley’s Bistro
Boston
Two decades after opening its doors, Hamersley's turns out the same straightforwardly delicious French bistro food that made it, along with chef-owner Gordon Hamersley, a [...] read more»
2007 Best French Restaurant, Berkshires
Blantyre
Lenox
It's easy to forget, in our world of PDAs and ADD, that drawn-out dining can be a thing of delight. Everything at this hotel restaurant, [...] read more»
2006 Best French Restaurant, West
Lumiere
Newton
The sparks are still flying at seven-year-old Lumiere, hometown boy Michael Leviton's utterly unsuburban Newton bistro. In the glow of copper-colored lamps, urbane, informed diners [...] read more»
2006 Best French Restaurant
Craigie On Main
Cambridge
French food can be oh-so fussy. Unless Tony Maws is behind the stove. Maws passes on clichéd classics in favor of unusual ingredients that make [...] read more»
2006 Best French Restaurant, Affordable
Sandrine’s Bistro
Cambridge
The ambiance seems a touch suburban. But no matter: At Sandrine's, all eyes are on chef Raymond Ost's accessible French classics. Follow a salmon crepe [...] read more»
2005 Best French Restaurant, Affordable
Pierrot Bistrot Fran
Boston
It may be, as the book contends, that French Women Don't Get Fat. But that's only because they don't have Pierre Sosnitsky feeding them. At [...] read more»
2005 Best French Restaurant
Craigie Street Bistrot
Cambridge
The image of a French chef wandering a farmers' market to determine what's for dinner might seem a quaint and continental fantasy. Not so for [...] read more»
2005 Best French Restaurant, West
Lumière
West Newton
Michael Leviton never buries his ingredients in ego, as some other chefs occasionally do. He always steers clear of fabulizing food. At Lumière, the appetizers, [...] read more»