Best of Boston

Owners Chris and Pam Willis call it a New American trattoria; we call it perfection in a neighborhood restaurant. It’s the big smile from Pammy herself at the host stand. Chef Chris’s soulful, somewhat-Italian-but-100-percent-his-own menu (hello, mussels with squid-ink arancini and lime-leaf aioli). The showstopping communal table and vases of fresh flowers. For all of those reasons and more, we find ourselves running to Pammy’s warm embrace again and again.