State Park is a laid-back restaurant in Kendall Square that serves all sorts of fried chicken.

Highland Kitchen is a Somerville neighborhood staple that has good cocktails and fun food.

Highland Fried is the tiki-themed sister spot of Somerville staple Highland Kitchen, and it’s got a lot of fried chicken.

We tried the food at this new picnic spot from the team behind Puritan & Co.

Trina’s is a divey restaurant in Inman Square with good cocktails and daily hot dog specials.

Lily P’s is a restaurant in Kendall Square that serves fried chicken and oysters.

Gray’s Hall is a wine bar in Southie with a great small plates selection.

Woods Hill is a restaurant in the Seaport. It’s named after a farm, so that should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect.

Carrie Nation is a restaurant and cocktail bar in Downtown Boston. It does one of those thing much better than the other.

Better Sorts is a Downtown Boston cocktail bar with great cocktails, trippy deer portraits on the wall, and couches to take it all in.

Post 390 is an American tavern and restaurant in the Back Bay.

The Met is both a business meal place, and a sports bar in the Back Bay.

Shy Bird is a counter-service chicken place in Kendall Square that’s also, weirdly, not a counter-service place, thanks to a full bar.

Stillwater is a Downtown Boston restaurant that serves great Ritz cracker-crusted fried chicken.

Local 149 is a gastropub in South Boston. It’s not a great place, but it’ll do.

Moonshine 152 is a great little restaurant in South Boston that serves Asian-ish street food.