Ilona is an Eastern Mediterranean restaurant in the South End. It’s a beautiful spot filled with beautiful South End people, and the food is great.

Bully Boy is a Roxbury distillery with a kind of gothic noir tasting room and cocktail bar.

Mario’s is a take-out pizza place in Roxbury.

Mida is a nice Italian restaurant with an opera singing bartender on the South End/Roxbury border.

Darryl’s is a jazz bar that serves Southern classics like fried chicken and waffles and shrimp and grits.