Toro is a fun South End tapas restaurant.

Island Creek Oyster Raw Bar is like a beer garden, but with oysters. And that’s a beautiful thing.

Coppa is an excellent Italian restaurant in the South End.

Bukowski Tavern is a bar in Back Bay that looks like a dive but has far better beer than that.

KO Pies is a chill spot for meat pies and outdoor Jenga on the industrial waterfront of East Boston.

Select Oyster Bar is a relaxed Back Bay seafood restaurant and bar with a small but very good menu.

Ducali isn’t as famous as some other well-known North End pizza places, but one day it might be.

Cornish Pasty is a tiny Back Bay pub that serves savory English pies.

Little Donkey is a small plates restaurant in Central Square that’s great for drinks and few bites.

Frenchie is a wine bar in the South End.

Legal Harborside is a giant seafood restaurant in the Seaport, with multiple dining concepts and a big roof deck with harbor views.

Duozo is a decent high-end sushi place in Back Bay.

Democracy Brewing is a Downtown Crossing brewpub with a menu of snack-type foods.

Atlantic Fish is a standard seafood restaurant in Back Bay where you can get some perfectly OK New England seafood.

Biddy Early’s is a well-worn, honey, sort of divey pub in Downtown Boston. We love it, you love it, and let’s all thank god it still exists.

Shay’s is an Irish pub in Harvard Square that also thinks it’s a wine bar, which is cute.