SRV in the South End is a great Italian restaurant with plenty of room, outdoor space, and pasta.

Island Creek Oyster Bar is a quintessential Boston seafood restaurant.

Boston Chops is Downtown steakhouse that looks and feels very much the way you expect a downtown steakhouse to.

The Emory is an American place on the top of Beacon Hill that’s a little better and a little more fun than most places in Downtown Boston.

Chickadee is a good Italian restaurant in an industrial corner of the Seaport.

Eastern Standard is a brasserie in Kenmore Square.

Bistro Du Midi is a fancy French restaurant in Back Bay.

Bar Mercato is a Downtown restaurant with a menu that works for a lot of different situations.

Pabu is a sleek izakaya on the second floor of the Millennium Tower downtown.

Merchant is a Downtown brasserie that gets the job done if what you happen to be looking for is a Downtown brasserie.

Les Zygomates is a French wine bar Downtown, and while the food isn’t particularly noteworthy, it’s a fun spot with live music just about every night.

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

Nahita in Back Bay is a flashy Latin-Asian fusion place that has more plants than a greenhouse.

The Oyster Club is a perfectly adequate high-end seafood place downtown-ish.

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

Kamakura is a high-end Japanese restaurant downtown with tasting menus in addition to a la carte options.