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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
Holdfast
Allston has a wide variety of food, from Korean BBQ to Turkish breakfast and Italian staples. But surprisingly there’s a lack of New England seafood, so Holdfast owners Nathan Gould and Tyler Paolini, who used to work at O Ya together, are bringing lobster rolls and crudo to this casual concept.
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Opening date: November 2025
164 Brighton Ave., Allston
Lanner Noodle Bar
This is the second location of the hand-pulled noodle eatery, its first in Cambridge. The Seaport location has slightly different offerings, like the Shanghai shrimp noodles in scallion soy sauce and the spicy beef rib chili oil noodles.
Open now (October 2025)
53 Pier 4 Blvd., Seaport
Posto
Bad news: Burro Bar in the South End. Now for the good news: It’s being replaced by the award-winning pizzeria, Posto. A spokesperson said customers can expect to find a menu full of the red and white wood-fired pizzas they’ve come to love at the Assembly Square location.
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Opening date: December 2025
1357 Washington St., South End
Urban Hearth
The farm-to-table restaurant from James Beard Award finalist Chef Erin Miller needs more space, so the eatery is moving to Inman Square. A press release said the current location in North Cambridge would remain operational until the new spot, its eventual flagship, opens to serve Miller’s fine dining menu of seasonal, elegant meals like five-spice Osso Buco, grilled local monkfish, and littleneck clams in sweet corn broth. The old location will also become a “secondary concept,” though few details were provided.
Opening date: Early 2026
1281 Cambridge St., Cambridge
Bonus: Time Out Market‘s espresso martini contest
If anyone can qualify as quality judges for an espresso martini contest, it’s Bostonians. Try these boozy coffee drinks from Cunard Tavern, Seamark & Old Wives Tale, Dillion’s, the Vermilion Club Steakhouse & Cocktail Bar, Sam Walker’s American Tavern, and Eva, before crowning the city’s best espresso martini. This event is free to attend, unless you want VIP access (skip the lines to try your beverages), which costs $27.86.
Event date: Sunday, Nov. 16 at 1 p.m.
401 Park Drive, Fenway-Kenmore
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