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.

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.

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

The L Street is an Irish pub in South Boston that will make you contemplate whether you like apples.

Croke Park (AKA Whitey’s) is a dive in South Boston that’s so popular it’s no longer a dive.