Phantom Gourmet Guide to Boston's Best Restaurants 2008

By The Phantom Gourmet

The Phantom Serves up the Best of Boston and Beyond

Do you eat food? Then follow these simple instructions for finding great meals everywhere from the North End to the North Shore, including standout restaurants in Rhode Island, Cape Cod, and even southern New Hampshire and southern Maine:

1. Buy this book.
2. Go to the table of contents on p. iii.
3. Select a location or a type of restaurant.
4. Read reviews of the Phantom Gourmet's eight favorite restaurants in that category.
5. Enjoy an unforgettable meal, and don't forget to tell them the Phantom sent you!

The Phantom Gourmet Guide to Boston's Best Restaurants is the ultimate guide to finding good eats in Boston and New England.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
• Release date: Aug 21, 2007
• ISBN: 9781429993852

The Phantom Gourmet

The Phantom Gourmet is the famous New England restaurant critic who dines in disguise and always pays his own bills. He is thus able to serve up the most honest and trustworthy restaurant reviews through television, radio, newspaper, and online outlets.

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GREAT ATES

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Phantom’s All-Time Favorites

GREAT ATE

THE GREATEST: Wood-Fired Cooking

Fore Street

$$$

288 Fore St., Portland, ME, [phone]

www.forestreet.biz

Fore Street is one of the most rustic and romantic eateries in New England. Wood-fired cooking is their specialty, and it’s all done in open view of the customer, sprawled across a soaring dining room of brick and dark wood. Pizzas come out of the brick oven topped with gourmet ingredients like roasted peppers, onions, and spinach. The roasted mussels bathe in so much almond garlic butter, you’ll want an entire loaf of bread to sop up every drop. Tender dry-rubbed pork loins do laps on the turnspit, and the grill sizzles full of steaks, chops, and fish. For dessert, don’t miss the warm apple tarte tatin with smoked bacon ice cream!

THE GREATEST: Beach Eats

Back Eddy

$$$

1 Bridge Road, Westport, MA, [phone]

www.thebackeddy.com

Whether you arrive by boat or by car, the Back Eddy is the ideal summer restaurant. It’s a classy clam shack that takes full advantage of local farms and fishermen in modem dishes like sausage stuffed clams with Tabasco aioli. Giant seared scallops are wrapped in applewood-smoked bacon, and the yellowfin tuna steak takes on an Asian theme with wasabi, soy sauce, and kimchi. The light, airy atmosphere includes a patio bar, so you can sip a gin and tonic just feet from the water.

THE GREATEST: Be Seen Brunch

Sonsie

$$$

327 Newbury St., Boston, MA, [phone]