Best of Boston 2026: Boston's Best Restaurants, Shopping, Bars

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Dining

Pristine oysters, steaks galore, a Labubu-festooned dining room in the Seaport. Time to make a reservation.

The boutiques, designers, and labels that make Boston a real retail city.

The people and places that make the rest of your life work.

A Pulitzer winner, a grocery store song, and free Shakespeare on the Common. The faces, venues, and good times that made our year.

Ball pits and croissants. Penguins and beer gardens. Boston’s kids’ scene finally remembered the parents.

You’ve found the right house. Now find the pros who make it your own.

The cake, the dress, the band—and the people behind every “yes.”

Whale's tail doorknockers, bourbon sticky toffee pudding, and a Revolutionary inn—the suburbs are showing off this year.

Natural wine in Dennis, sea bass in Menemsha, crème fraîche on your onion rings—the coast delivers.