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La Fonda Street pitches itself as a passport through Latin American street food — not a single country's greatest hits, but the kind of cross-border cooking you'd find at a busy market stall in Caracas or Santo Domingo.

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

Rhythm 'n Wraps is doing something specific and earned: bringing Le Cordon Bleu technique to Ayurvedic-influenced plant-based cooking, in a room decorated with graffiti murals of old-school rap artists, with hip-hop running loud enough t…

Atlantic Fish Company has held its Boylston Street position in Back Bay for long enough that a reputation this consistent is not accidental.

Cha Yen Thai Cookery didn't start with ambition for a dining room — it started with eight seats and a takeout window in Coolidge Square, Watertown, and built its reputation one MSG-free, made-to-order plate at a time.