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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
Amelia’s Cluck & Smash
Amelia’s Taqueria is rebranding one of its restaurants near Northeastern University. Its Tex-Mex menu is no more at Amelia’s Cluck & Smash, instead serving smash burgers, chicken sandwiches, and Kayem all-beef hot dogs.
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Open now (July 2025)
309 Huntington Ave., Fenway-Kenmore
Bakey
The Bakey expansion continues to sweep Greater Boston with its Israeli-owned bakeries full of babkas — for example, chocolate, almond, raspberry, and seasonal flavors. The fifth location has officially opened inside Faneuil Hall.
Open now (August 2025)
299 Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Downtown Boston
Nine
The Beacon Hill restaurant space that for decades housed No. 9 Park, Barbara Lynch’s popular fine-dining eatery, is getting a new life under restaurateur Allan Rodriguez. The fine dining restaurant will serve French-European cuisine, while its beverage program highlights gin — calling itself Boston’s first-ever gin palace — and French wines.
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Open now (August 2025)
9 Park Street Place, Beacon Hill
Roger’s Fish and Chips
Legal Sea Foods’ former owner, Roger Berkowitz, is now back to running a restaurant with Roger’s Fish and Chips, a fast-casual seafood spot inside Logan Airport. It’s a small space inside Terminal A, reports The Boston Globe, and will include dishes like fried clams, chowder, lobster rolls, and of course fish and chips.
Opening date: October 2025
1 Harborside Drive, East Boston
Bonus: Mimi’s Chūka Diner and Phaeng & Phiu pop-up dinner
Laotian-inspired Phaeng & Phiu is popping up in the kitchen at Mimi’s Chūka Diner, serving dishes like grilled pork ribs, crab fried rice, and Pad Kee Mao Talay, a seafood drunken noodle dish. There aren’t reservations available to dine in Mimi’s, but guests still have time to make pre-orders that they can take home or eat inside Aeronaut Brewing Co., who is also brewing a Laotian-inspired sour ale.
Event date: Aug. 24 from 5 to 9 p.m.; limited pre-order takeout available now
14 Tyler St., Somerville
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