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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
El Barco
This Martha’s Vineyard taqueria is becoming a more permanent fixture in Boston’s Back Bay, after a successful pop-up takeover of the space that was Summer Shack. You’ll find your typical taco shop food and drink here, like a selection of burritos and tacos with shredded pork and blackened shrimp, as well as five margarita options and other cocktails.
Open now (Pop-up since April)
50 Dalton St., Back Bay
Flour Bakery + Cafe
An 11th Flour Bakery is coming to Greater Boston, with owner Joanne Chang’s sights set on a former JP Licks location in Mission Hill. You’ll find Flour’s famous sticky buns, as well as cookies, pastries, and sandwiches. MassLive also reported that soft serve ice cream will be available, a newer addition to the Flour brand that has become a popular menu item at the Boston Common location.
Opens January 2026
1620 Tremont St., Mission Hill
George Howell Coffee
The beloved coffee and cafe from George Howell joins the lineup of restaurants and shops at the Lyrik shopping mall. George Howell’s cafe menu features a rotating coffee farm of the week, along with iced lattes, teas, pastries, and sandwiches. Customers can also grab a retail coffee for the home, including a Montecarlos medium roast from El Salvador or the La Minita light roast from Costa Rica.
Open now (August 2025)
400 Newbury St., Back Bay
Lab 13 Handroll Bar
A new restaurant at the Chestnut Hill Square shopping center has brought made-to-order hand rolls — sushi wrapped in a seaweed sheet cone — to the suburbs. Guests can choose between single handrolls with tuna, snow crab, and more, or get a three, four, five, or six set of handrolls.
Open now (August 2025)
210 Boylston St., Chestnut Hill
Taste of Allston
One of Boston’s most fun food neighborhoods is bringing all the food to one spot. Food and drink vendors include Sloane’s, Ajeen, a Widowmaker beer garden, and Cafe Weekend. While you feast on some of Allston’s best bites, get a tarot card reading, listen to live music, or check out various community and art vendors throughout Jackson Mann Plaza.
Event date: Saturday, Sept. 20 from noon to 4 p.m.
500 Cambridge St., Allston
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