The Parish Cafe is like the Norton Anthology of Boston's culinary cosmos. The list of culinary contributors reads like a Who's Who of Boston chefs: Todd English (Olives), Jody Adams (Rialto), Lydia Shire (Excelsior—formerly Biba) and other big stars descend from their constellations to endow the menu with incredible specialty sandwiches ($9-20) which do marvelous things with chicken, portabello, lobster, brioche, focaccia. The best bartenders in the scene also contribute towards a highly creative martini menu ($5.75-7.50). The Parish Cafe was voted the best purveyor of sandwiches 4 years in a row, and the Unofficial Guide heartily concurs. They also offer a beer card program in which you must taste all of their offered beers to earn a prized mug engraved with anything you like. This section contains information from Harvard Student Agencies' Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard.

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Restaurateur Rande Gerber (aka Mr. Cindy Crawford) launched Whiskey Park in an attempt to bring the hipster New York scene up east to Boston, with dim lighting, swanky leather couches, mohair pillows, and incense candles. The Park is packed with a diverse but definitely upscale crowd, everyone from older local businessmen to Euro jet-setters—clearly people who don't mind shelling out $7-12 for mixed drinks (although they do have a great martini menu). Dress to impress. Draft beer $5. Th Latin night. Limited pub menu served until 10pm. This section contains information from Harvard Student Agencies' Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard.

Radius's team of hipster restaurateurs score yet again with this tastefully mod and highly authentic Italian experiement, which offers diners a choice of top-drawer food and drinks in one of four settings. Try the white-walled main dining room, the outdoor terrace, the late-night bistro and pizzeria, or the bar—a perfect place to meet dates for after-hours drinks. The restaurant offers a host of generously-portioned Italian regional specialties, like the phenomenal Fresh Pappardelle with Long Island duck, dried cherries, and rosemary ($19), but those in a drinking-and-snacking kind of mood should hit the bar for specialty drinks, scene-making, and lightly crunchy risotto balls ($10). The mostly upscale 30-something crowd packs this place nightly, so call for reservations. This section contains information from Harvard Student Agencies' Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard. The basil gimlet--fresh basil with lime and vodka--is not to be missed.

Davio's is a Northern Italian Steakhouse and restaurant with locations in Boston near Park Plaza and one in Cambridge. Davio's menu is has extensive listings of the variety of cuts of steak that they carry as well as different pastas, salads, seafood, and sushi. Dress is more business casual and they also just opened a new location at Patriot Place in Foxborough.

A new addition to the Park Plaza Hotel, The Melting Pot of Boston is an experience in and of itself. Decadent chocolate fondue desserts complete with tableside flambe, preceded by an array of entree choices which include everything from a vegetarian platter to the classic "Surf and Turf". With a wine list that exceeds 250 bottles, the Melting Pot has the cheese fondue to complement, prepared tableside. There is something for everyone! Conveniently located near T stops, central to all the bells and whistles Boston has to offer.

This upscale cafe offshoot of Nestle's Nespresso machines serves up the ultimate coffee experience at a sophisticated locale on Newbury Street. Who knew that coffee could be so .. well ... luxurious? Hermetically-sealed capsules and tailor-made Nespresso coffee machines are designed to combine the precise amount of coffee, water and pressurized air to allow superior extraction into the cup at the push of a button. They now boast more than 900 coffee aromas from light, air and moisture. Coffee in a capsule? You bet.

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