Bon Appétit says these two Boston-area eateries are among the 50 best new restaurants in America
The magazine recognized a Somerville cafe and a French-inspired restaurant in Cambridge.
Food and dining magazine Bon Appétit announced the 50 finalists for the 2016 edition of its “Hot 10” best new restaurants in America list, and two newcomers to the Boston-area dining scene made the cut.Juliet, a cafe in Somerville’s Union Square that opened in March 2016, and Shepard, a restaurant minutes from Harvard Square that debuted in 2015, were honored by the magazine for contributing to “the way we eat in 2016,” according to Bon Appétit’s deputy editor Andrew Knowlton in a press release.According to the release, Knowlton and Bon Appétit senior editor Julia Kramer ate at more than 400 new restaurants around the country to come up with the list. The magazine praised Juliet for its energetic, personal cooking, and called it a great “off-the-beaten-path date spot.”“Visiting from out of town? Here’s the lunch spot you dream of stumbling into,” the magazine wrote. “A place where you order a ham sandwich and are handed a crackly ficelle spread with radish butter and ribbons of French jambon.”
Soupe de Poisson at Shepard Restaurant.
Bon Appétit had similarly positive words for Shepard, saying that chef Susan Regis carries on the legacy of Julia Child, while creating a thoroughly New England environment.
“Pull up a Windsor chair to one of the polished-wood tables, and you’ll feel like you’ve been invited to a dinner party of Harvard professors,” the magazine wrote. “Albeit one where the host casually brings out greens with fermented black beans.”
Bon Appétit’s official Hot 10 will be announced in its September issue, which will appear on newsstands and the publication’s website on August 16.
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