With a cozy restaurant scene drenched in red sauce and redder wine, the North End has plenty of places for couples to canoodle. Singles? You’ll find them gathering around the 30-seat white marble bar at this uncharacteristically (for the neighborhood) contemporary spot, where hotshot beverage director Mike Wyatt serves up a serious cocktail program. It includes the eponymous Ward 8, a whiskey cocktail born in 1898 at the late and venerable Boston institution Locke-Ober.
Ward 8
90 N. Washington St., Boston • (617) 823-4478
ward8.com
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Neighborhoods: North End
2015 Winner: Lucca
We adore its Back Bay spinoff, but nothing in the North End beats the original Lucca, a classic spot of which Little Italy dreams are made…...
- 226 Hanover St., Boston
- (617) 742-9200
- luccaboston.com
