"When you want to get dressed for dinner", "you can't go wrong" with the "grandeur and elegance" of this circa-1856 "classic hotel restaurant" in the historic Omni Parker House Hotel in Downtown Crossing, originator of the Parker House roll and Boston cream pie – both of which are still on the "excellent", "traditional" New England menu; tabs are expensive, but payoffs include a "marvelous"...
Modest expectations are key for optimal enjoyment at this "casual", "after-work stop" in Downtown Crossing where "students, regular Joes" and other "barflies" gather for "moderately priced" suds and "low-key Boston flavor"; service gets mixed marks and the brick-and-wood decor is unremarkable, but at least it doesn't "pretend to be classy."