8 Must-Try Restaurant and Bar Openings Around Boston, June 2025

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This monthly column highlights notable restaurant openings in and around Boston. Catch up on more news about Boston restaurant openings right here.
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Brighton: Bar stars Will Isaza and Jen LaForge have opened a new spot for tacos at the Charles River Speedway. Salsa Shack is slinging 'New England-style' street tacos with options such as braised pork belly, Old Bay butter chicken, and mushroom al pastor, plus sides including corn chowder and guacamole served with Nantucket Crisps. 525 Western Avenue
Cambridge: The cheekily named TooHot, a new Sichuan restaurant from the folks behind Noah's Kitchen in Brookline Village, has opened in Harvard Square. Don't miss the mapo stone pot tofu, which showcases the kitchen's skills with málà, the tingly, numbing spices quintessential to Sichuan cooking. 16-18 Eliot Street
East Boston: Essential Boston restaurant Taqueria Jalisco has opened a gorgeous new outpost in Orient Heights with a full slate of cocktails, an expanded food menu, and a lot more seating for dine-in customers. 980 Saratoga Street
Seaport: Waterfront date-night spot Wood's Hill Pier 4 has opened a more casual sibling next to the restaurant called the Block. Head here for plates of dry-aged meats and fish, pig's ear tots, salmon belly crudo, and more. 300 Pier 4 Boulevard
Seaport: New England's premier oyster farm, Island Creek Oysters, opened an outdoor raw bar at the Seaport this month. Come to the Island Creek Raw Bar to slurp oysters and snack on caviar and tinned fish, or order a sushi roll featuring seafood from Boston fish market Red's Best. 99 Autumn Lane
South Boston: Kristin Jenkins, the owner behind romantic Beacon Hill restaurant 1928, has opened her second restaurant, the Essex, inside the Cambria Hotel in South Boston. The new spot also includes a rooftop bar and restaurant, the Essex Rooftop, with plenty of picture-perfect views of the Boston skyline. 6 West Broadway
South Boston: Crowds are already gathering at Park City, a 30,000 square-foot outdoor space with a restaurant, bar, and lots of family-friendly space to hang out. (Bring the pups, too!) It's all engineered by the team behind Broadway Restaurant Group, which also runs neighborhood hot spots like Lincoln Tavern and Loco Taqueria. 411 Dorchester Avenue
Roxbury: New York City-based restaurant chain Xi'an Famous Foods, known for its bouncy hand-pulled noodles, has entered the Boston market with a ghost kitchen in Roxbury. A standalone Downtown Crossing location is coming later this year, the Boston Globe reports. 94 Shirley Street See More: Boston Restaurant Openings