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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
District 7 Cafe
From District 7 Tavern’s Royal Smith comes a new coffeehouse bearing the same name, and it’s conveniently located right next door in Roxbury. The menu features a classic variety of coffee, teas, muffins, and other breakfast pastries. Smith also recently received one of the zip code-restricted all-alcohol licenses for the cafe, with plans to eventually serve alcohol during brunch service.
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Open now (June 2025)
376 Warren St., Roxbury
Darling
Central Square is finally getting a new tenant in the space that formerly housed the beloved Mary Chung restaurant. It’s Chinese-inspired craft cocktails — like the Common Trope, made with milk-washed vodka steeped with jasmine tea, acidified lychee, black rice sake, and cucumber — and a fun dim sum food menu of soy-braised duck feet, Hong Kong shrimp toast, and Dr. Pepper-braised pork ribs.
Opening date: July 16
458 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
Mike & Patty’s
Lexington residents no longer have to make the traffic-ridden trek to Newton or Somerville for one of Greater Boston’s best breakfast sammies. Expect the same classics — the Grilled Crack, Carolina Caviar, and Mission breakfast burrito, for example — that you’d find at Mike & Patty’s five other locations.
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Open now (July 2025)
317 Woburn St., Lexington
Post 1917 Steakhouse
This modern steakhouse is expanding with two locations after a successful first year in Reading. The first restaurant to come is in Lexington, expected to open sometime this summer. A year later, diners in Somerville can expect the quintessential steakhouse to open its doors in their community.
Opening date: Summer 2025
27 Waltham St., Lexington
Bonus: Birds of Paradise guest bartender
Spoke Wine Bar’s beverage director, Katie Weismann, is serving up tinier versions of martinis behind the Birds of Paradise bar, part of the restaurant’s returned Teeny Martini Monday. Soak up early dinner drinks with a braised beef grilled cheese.
Available Monday, July 14, from 2 to 6 p.m.
525 Western Ave., Brighton
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