"Boston is bursting with seafood — lobster rolls, scallop crudo, oyster happy hours, you name it — but seafood that bucks traditional preparations? That’s a bit less common. Enter Moëca, the younger sibling to the perpetually booked-out Italian restaurant Giulia just down the street on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. This is where you go for craggy, buttermilk-fried monkfish showered with sesame seeds and a pool of tamarind hot sauce on the side. This is where you go for steamed mussels served not in a bowl but over a whopping hunk of sourdough soaked in a Basque pil pil sauce. Seafood takes unexpected, surprising forms at Moëca, and it is well worth the ride." - Eater Staff
Erika Adams/Eater Boston
