The 38 Best Restaurants in Boston | Eater Boston

"The concise menu at quirky, boozy Thai restaurant Mahaniyom (Eater Boston’s best new restaurant in 2021) features dishes you won’t readily find elsewhere in the Boston-area Thai scene — many of them small plates that pair particularly well with one of the restaurant’s tasty cocktails or a mild Thai lager. Fill up on crispy chicken skins; seasonal fruit salads like rambutan with fried shrimp and toasted coconut; salt-and-pepper pork cheek; and green papaya pad Thai. Know after you go: Want to keep the party going post-dinner? Mahaniyom has an award-winning sibling bar, Merai, just down the block that is open until 1 a.m." - Erika Adams