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1. Bosso Ramen Tavern
   Rating: 4.5 (1.1K reviews)
   Cuisine: Japanese
   Price: $
   Description: You’ll want to settle in at one of the wood-slab tables at this modern-style Japanese establishment on Harvard Square for the alternating ramen specials, the innovative sushi offerings, and the imaginative izakaya-style snacks (edamame hummus, anyone?).

2. Bar Enza
   Rating: 4.4 (3.2K reviews)
   Cuisine: Italian
   Price: $$$
   Description: Serving quality Italian trattoria-inspired fare within the Charles Hotel, this spot is a Cambridge staple for a celebratory meal or weeknight happy hour. Acclaimed chef Lydia Shire's menu features signatures like housemade pasta, seafood favorites like steamed mussels and lobster Savannah, plus prime steaks and freshly baked bread.

3. Darling
   Rating: 4.7 (922 reviews)
   Cuisine: Dim Sum
   Price: $
   Description: It’s a dark cocktail lounge from longtime industry veterans Brian Callahan and Zimu Chen, with an inventive, daily changing cocktail menu that plays with Chinese flavors. Fittingly, bar bites come in the form of a dim sum-inspired menu dispensing everything from braised pork ribs to “Filet O’ Fish” bao.

4. Saigon Babylon
   Rating: 4.6 (896 reviews)
   Cuisine: Vietnamese
   Price: $$
   Description: Husband-and-wife team Vinh Le and Duong Huynh (of Cicada Coffee Bar and The Eaves) have taken over the site of the lamented Blue Owl, atop Sonder 907 Main in Cambridge, to install a restaurant, bar, and “coffee garden” serving colorful cocktails and Vietnamese-accented fare that you won’t want to miss.

5. Dear Annie
   Rating: 4.4 (464 reviews)
   Cuisine: Seafood
   Price: $$
   Description: There’s a lightness to this Cambridge wine bar, and it’s not just because of the effervescent natural wines on the list. Maybe it’s the fresh-cut flowers and greenery, the shimmer of cut glass or the neon signage. It’s more likely the fun and frolicking menu, snackables like pickled mussels or spicy seafood fumet, plus enough wines by the glass to try to keep things interesting.

6. Mae Asian Eatery
   Rating: 4.9 (148 reviews)
   Cuisine: Thai
   Price: $$
   Description: You’ll definitely want to reserve a table at this 20-seat jewel box of a place, where chef-owner Yuri Asawasittikit draws on her mother’s recipes to produce a treasury of traditional Thai dishes, along with a scattering of Japanese and Chinese treats.

7. Gufo
   Rating: 4.7 (2.9K reviews)
   Cuisine: Italian
   Price: $
   Description: The team behind SRV and The Salty Pig have another winner, this time it’s mortadella-stuffed cappelletti with corn, snap pea Caesar salads, and merguez sausage pizzas for East Cambridge. You’ll note the stylish owl motif everywhere — gufo means “owl” in Italian.

8. Summer Shack Cambridge
   Rating: 4.5 (2.2K reviews)
   Cuisine: Seafood
   Price: $$
   Description: If you’re craving seafood, this is the place to be. From oyster towers and shrimp scampi to sushi, Summer Shack has it all when it comes to enjoying fresh local seafood.

9. Cafe Sushi
   Rating: 4.9 (470 reviews)
   Cuisine: Sushi
   Price: $
   Description: The nondescriptly named Café Sushi, ensconced in a strip mall between Central and Harvard Squares, is a textbook case of don’t-judge-a-book-by-its-cover. Because hidden in plain sight is one of the city’s best sushi programs, featuring fresh fish options from sushi and hand rolls to ceviche.

10. Fallow Kin
    Rating: 4.8 (290 reviews)
    Cuisine: Farm to Table
    Price: $$$
    Description: Fallow Kin is a veritable brain trust of local culinary talent. Restaurateurs Conor Dennehy and Danielle Ayer of Talulla, along with chef Marcos Sanchez, bank on their close ties to local farmers to serve a season-specific menu that puts vegetables at the center (but doesn’t shy away from meat and fish).