"Flex Mussels owner Alexandra Shapiro opened her family’s restaurant Hoexters — with its generous seating and retro design elements — around the corner from the original location that closed in the mid-1980s. The menu features French onion soup, Caesar salad, fried calamari, shrimp cocktail, and clams piccata among starters, and meat-centric mains like a half-chicken, a whole branzino, stuffed shells, and pork Milanese. But it’s the gorgonzola garlic bread from the original menu that’s been the bestseller so far." - Melissa McCart