"This city is certainly no virgin to Greek food—but the team behind Krasi has continued to find delicious ways to reinvent the cuisine for Bostonians. Chef Brendan Pelley does so most notably with this down-home Vlach (an Indigenous population of Romanian and Moldovans) cuisine in Brookline's quiet Washington Square. It's far less cold/industrial wine bar, and a lot more lamb-roasts-of-Greek-Orthodox-childhood. A central grill searing meats and vegetables sets the tone; dips and massive slices of traditional phyllo pies (spinach, cheese, meat; you can't go wrong) up that tradition; Metaxa bottles shaped like Evzone soldiers on the bar shelves and portraits of yia yias in folk garb adorning the walls add to the fun. Don't you dare miss the bonkers cocktail list, where you can order an espresso martini in a single-serve briki (the copper Turkish coffee pot), or slip into a divine tzatziki milk punch that simply boggles the mind." - Todd Plummer, Shannon McMahon
