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An intimate guide to dining in — and eating out — this Valentine's Day
Erotic Potluck BY ALEXANDRA CAVALLO, CASSANDRA LANDRY, AND ARIEL SHEARER

Boston

Stella

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Waterfront

Aura

Seafood, American

Fenway

Eastern Standard

Bistro

Back Bay

Kings

American

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The Salty Pig

3 stars

A small-plate menu that goes full boar

Catalyst

2 stars

Some wonder sprinkled amid the uncertainty

Papagãyo Mexican Kitchen and Tequila Bar

2 stars

A skillful take on 'fake' Mexican

Blue Nile

3 stars

Tasty new flavors from Ethiopia

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Valentine's Day for the Frugal and Savvy Diner

Avoiding the V-Day fine-dining shit-show

On the Cheap: Render Coffee

Coffee-nerd nirvana

Skip the dining hall

No need to suffer another meal of anemic salad bars or gray lunch meats — these 6 campus-convenient cheap-eats spots will treat you right

On the Cheap: Grillo's Pickles

Brining it all back home

On the Cheap: Lizzy's

Comfort grub in a landmark East Cambridge Watering Hole

Featured Neighborhood

Back Bay

1

Beehive

2

Club Café

3

Kings

Boylston Street

4

Gypsy Bar

Charles St.

5

Sweetwater Café

Charles St.

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The Regal Beagle

So what’s wrong with a TV dinner? THE REGAL BEAGLE — a place named after the much-loved

The Bleacher Bar

Fried pickles are a staple delight in the better saloons, diners, and gin joints of the old

Vinny’s

Tripe is tricky, and not everyone loves the rubbery texture. And as for Italian tripe, you don’t want the organic aroma to overwhelm an already good sauce. Thank goodness

Sonsie

We live in an age of impermanence. Today’s hot place is yesterday’s news. Not so with SONSIE, the nouveaux-American-style bistro, which for 15 years has been dishing fine cuisine

Alibi

At Liberty Hotel hotspot ALIBI — formerly the Charles Street Jail’s drunk tank — bartenders craft surprising ingredients like herbs, exotic liqueurs, and even pickles into concoctions that are

Myung Dong 1st Ave

Boston: meet the Soju-Bomb, which follows the great tradition of explosive cocktails like the Irish Car Bomb and the Molotov Cocktail. Soju is the Korean vodka, and a Soju-Bomb