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5 can’t-miss restaurant openings and dining updates in Boston this week
Stay up to date on the best new restaurants, recent openings, and the biggest dining updates across Greater Boston's food scene.
It’s a good time to be a Greater Boston diner in 2025, with exciting and diverse restaurant openings occurring all over the metro area.
Each week, Boston.com will highlight the restaurant openings worth knowing about across the Greater Boston region. Some spots will already be open, while others are set to debut soon or later this year. At least one featured restaurant will always be a bonus item — either a pop-up, a collaboration, or event at area restaurants.
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What’s new in Greater Boston restaurant openings this week
Bubble Bath
Tiffani Faison’s wine bar now has a second location inside the citizenM hotel in Back Bay. There will be a menu of wines, bubbly and other, in addition to elevated snacks meant to pair with a glass of sparkling wine, like Greek salad bites, a chicken tikka salad, and caviar “tea service.” The rooftop bar can seat 108 inside and 81 on its seasonal patio and promises some of the best views of the city.
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Open now (August 2025)
408 Newbury St., Back Bay
Burg & Shaw
From the team behind Egyptian fast food chain Chickin Worx, Downtown Boston is getting a new kind of fusion concept that includes burgers and shawarma. Even more, the takeout-only restaurant will have late-night hours, serving its mashup of American burgers and Middle Eastern shawarma until 1 a.m., reports What Now Boston.
Opening date: October 2025
80 Boylston St., Downtown Boston
FiDo Pizza
Boston has many delicious pizza spots, but it can’t hurt to have another pizzeria in town, right? Traveler Street Hospitality and Chef Colin Lynch (known for South End restaurants Bar Mezzana and Shore Leave) are bringing New York-style pizzas to the Allston Labworks Campus, with options like a classic cheese or pepperoni, braised greens with anchovy, and a soppressata and whipped ricotta pie. The menu also features snacks, pastas, and drinks, including a pepperoni pizza-infused Negroni.
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Opening date: Late August 2025
250 Western Ave., Allston
New City Microcreamery
Hudson-born ice cream shop New City is expanding to Arlington with a fourth location, taking over the space that was once Abbott’s Frozen Custard, reports MassLive. If all goes as planned, the ice cream parlor will open in late August — still hot enough to need ice cream.
Opening date: Late August 2025
311 Broadway, Arlington
Bonus: Juliet Social Club and Jamie’s Ice Cream Co. collaboration
Around Greater Boston you can find tequila flights, hot dog flights, and martini flights. But this collaboration at Juliet Social Club offers a flight duo of some of life’s best indulgences: wine and ice cream. The summer social offers three ice cream flavors from Jamie’s Ice Cream — and pairs them with three of Juliet’s most popular wines. If the pairings and a flight isn’t your thing, ordering both wine and ice cream a la carte is also an option.
Event date: Thursday, Aug. 14 from 6 to 8 p.m.
257 Washington St., Somerville
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