New York Times Best Restaurants in Boston including these in South Boston

Wondering where to eat in Boston right now? The New York Times has some thoughts!

The Times just released its latest list of the best restaurants in Boston, highlighting everything from seafood and Italian to Vietnamese, Peruvian, omakase, bánh mì, and more.

Whether you’re looking for your next date-night spot or just an excuse to try somewhere new, check out which Boston restaurants made the list, including these ones right here in the neighborhood:

Dalia

Many Spanish restaurants in the United States still mostly peddle a tapas ideal from 30 years in the past (delicious as it may be). But Dalia treats Spanish cooking not as a destination but a point of departure. What are the words “dan dan” doing on this menu? That dish is the chef Nicholas Dixon’s sly nod to the Sichuan dish, but the noodles are calamari, and pork and peanuts are smoky sobrasada and almonds. Patatas bravas are engineered pavé style, the potatoes sliced thin and shingled, then fried into cubes even crispier than the original. But what turns heads fastest is Dalia’s kaleidoscopic, through-the-looking-glass dining room. Depending on where you’re seated, you’re bathed in sun-drenched whimsy, in brooding red-velvet hush or the golden glow from the open kitchen’s Basque grills, which coax Iberian pork into something fire-kissed and feral. KEVIN PANG

629 West Broadway; 617-752-0429; daliaboston.com

Row 34 – Fort Point

Chuck an oyster shell in any direction in Boston and you’ll hit a seafood restaurant, from blue-collar fry houses to multistory harborfront properties. Row 34 (with four locations across Massachusetts and New Hampshire) serves the requisite clam chowder, halibut and calamari, but it takes a few extra steps in advancing the genre. It smokes, cures and pâtés a variety of seafoods, it makes saltine crackers in-house, and lobsters — caught by the chef Jeremy Sewall’s cousin and his son — land on plates within 48 hours of leaving the ocean. The resulting lobster rolls cost more here than at other restaurants, but they are superlative. KEVIN PANG

383 Congress Street (original Fort Point location); 617-553-5900; row34.com

Yume Ga Arukara

Yume Ga Arukara makes just one thing and makes it well: udon, the thick Japanese wheat flour noodles. They’re extruded from the stainless steel machine in beautiful floured strands, and emerge smooth and slippery once boiled, with the barest suggestion of a chew. The purest expression of udon is in a dashi broth — here, your choices are hot or cold, spicy or not, each accompanied by fatty beef slices, scallions and crisp tempura bits. Take your pick, you can’t choose wrong. Visitors once endured long wait times at its shoe-box-size Cambridge space; diners can now spread out at the Seaport location, or its expanded store inside the student center at the Lesley University Porter Square campus. KEVIN PANG

70 Pier 4 Boulevard, Suite 260

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