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Tiki bars usually fall into one of two camps: serious cocktails with sad food, or kitschy rooms where nobody's really cooking.

Let's be clear about what Cafe Bonjour is: a small daytime room in Downtown Crossing, all bar seating and two-tops, kitchen open so you watch the eggs go from pan to plate.

Giulia has been producing what many consider Cambridge's most serious Italian cooking for over a decade, and the consistency of that reputation is, by most accounts, the point.

Urban Hearth is, at its core, Chef Erin Miller's argument that serious fine dining belongs in the neighborhoods — not downtown, not in a hotel corridor, but in Inman Square, where Cambridge still operates on human scale.

Veggie Galaxy pulls off the trick most all-vegan diners can't: it doesn't taste like a compromise.