Giulia

This Italian restaurant on the edge of Porter Square is consistently booked a couple weeks out, and you’re going to have to deal with that if you want to eat there. Let’s be clear: you want to eat at Giulia. Why? Well, they have a “pasta table” right by the kitchen that you can book for a big group and eat a bunch of family-style dishes, along with a small selection of tables and a dark bar in a back room that’s always packed. But even if your dream isn’t to eat plates of housemade pasta with several other humans, the menu updates regularly, with delicious stuff like soppressata flatbread and swordfish over black Sardinian rice.