Sonsie

Sonsie Restaurant is located at 327 Newbury St in Boston and has been in the business of Eating Places since 1996.

Know Before You Go: Weekend nights are extremely busy: Make reservations or expect to wait. Or enjoy the same menu and environment on weeknights, which are less crowded year-round.

The Extras: The romantic downstairs lounge is open daily, except for Sundays, from 6pm to 1am.

Café society blossoms along Newbury Street, particularly at Sonsie, where a well-heeled crowd sips coffee up front or angles for places at the bar. Lunch and dinner dishes, such as charcoal duck breast and leg with brown rice and five-spice turnips, are basic bistro fare with an American twist. The restaurant is a terrific place for weekend brunch, when the light pours through the long windows,...

The crowd spilling through French doors onto the sidewalk café in warm weather consists of trendy cosmopolitans, fun-loving professionals, local sports celebs, and scenesters. Founding owner-chef Bill Poirier's offerings of contemporary Americana have been a Back Bay standout for 20 years. Wine Room, a sleek soft-lit cellar, is a must for oenophiles. The sophisticated jazz-rock soundtrack...

EAST CAMBRIDGE — The glorious expansion of Lone Star Taco Bar to the former Lizzy's space is expected to happen by the end of the year. "It'll have Lone Star's core menu mashed up with [sister restaurant] Deep Ellum's bar program," co-owner Max Toste tells Boston Magazine. "On top of that, it's going to have some special standalone features that will be unique to the space." [BM]

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With a "trendy", "youngish crowd" in the "lively" bar, "posh" dining room (featuring floor-to-ceiling windows that open to the street) and "cool wine cellar", this Back Bay "hot spot" is a "place to see and be seen", but the "delightful" Eclectic menu has "substance" too; despite the "sophisticated" airs, service is "warm" and prices "reasonable."

Eclectic international cuisine in the Back Bay. Includes virtual tour, menus and chef's biography. Sonsie celebrates fifteen years on Boston's famous Newbury Street serving top-notch International cuisine from award-winning Chef Bill Poirier. Open seven days a week from 7:00am to 1:00am, Sonsie boasts beautiful French doors that translate to an open sidewalk cafe in season, as well as a...