Juliet

Here's the thing about El Jefe's on Boylston: it stays open until 2am, which means it exists in two registers.

Theo's Cozy Corner earns its name honestly: a galley-kitchen sliver on Salem Street seating about twenty, where you climb through the kitchen and lift a trap door for stairs down to the bathroom.

Highland Kitchen has been a fixture of the Somerville dining scene long enough to have developed the kind of reputation that neighbourhood restaurants either earn or quietly lose — and by most accounts, it has held its ground.

Angela Atenco Lopez learned to cook at eight, beside her mother in Puebla, and that lineage is the whole point at this East Boston room on Lexington Street.

What Mary and Nada Lattouf have built at 246 W.