Tucked into an easy-to-overlook Chinatown basement, Best Little serves traditional Cantonese and Teochew dishes at ridiculous bargain prices. Its simplicity, freshness and ringing clarity of flavors will seduce the most timid American accustomed to falling back on General Gau’s. Bring a friend or two and start with minced beef soup with Chinese parsley, then salty pork with green beans, a lettuce-wrap dish that will make you regret ever stepping inside a P.F. Chang’s. You’ll be back, and soon.
Best Little Restaurant
13 Hudson St., Boston • (617) 338-4988
bestlittlerestaurant.com
Other Winners
-
Chinese
2014 Winner: Peach Farm
This subterranean spot specializes in the bounty beneath the waves...
- 4 Tyler St., Boston
- (617) 482-3332
- peachfarmboston.com
-
Chinese
2016 Winner: Shanghai Fresh
For all our regional Chinese restaurant diversity, Boston hasn’t enjoyed nearly enough of the subtle, fragrant, sophisticated cuisine of Shanghai...
- 735 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
- (617) 868-8877
- theshanghaifresh.com
-
Chinese
2017 Winner: BLR by Shojo
Once a dumpy but beloved Cantonese joint, the reinvented Best Little Restaurant now features scrubbed-up good looks evoking an illicit Chinatown gambling den...
- 13A Hudson St., Boston
- (617) 338-4988
- blrbyshojo.com
-
Chinese
2018 Winner: Blossom Bar
- 295 Washington St., Brookline
- (617) 734-1870
- blossombarbrookline.com
Photo Credit: Maddie Malhotra
