If onion dip sounds a bit boring, this wasn’t like your mom used to serve at cocktail parties. The dip is lavished with trout roe, dill, egg and capers, and your dipping chips are golden-light potato waffles.

Project Restore Us, launched last year by restaurateurs Tracy Chang of Pagu and Irene Li of Mâe Asian Eatery, has expanded by partnering with the Asian American Resource Workshop and Vietnamese American Initiative for Development.

Spyce’s “infinite kitchen” looks like something from Disney World’s Tomorrowland, a series of silos with prepped and precooked foods such as rice, quinoa, beets, corn and cucumber slices.

By the new year Harvard Square will be home to Boiling Crab, a seafood chain with 20 locations nationwide – but Hot Chix could be serving hot and spicy fried chicken as soon as this month in Inman Square.

Opened in haute Davis Square more than 20 years ago by Lydia and Steve Liakos, the Out of the Blue Restaurant offers simple, quality seafood done with a Sicilian accent in a cozy, nonpretentious atmosphere.

Detroit-style pizza is a square, crustless pie close to the thick, Sicilian style, and at Avenue Kitchen & Bar it’s a palate-pleasing, stomach filling treat.

A limited menu shows Shine Square Pub is still be transitioning back from the pandemic, but it’s kept the very best of what has been done so well during a short history – sliders and wings.

About the only issue diners will have with Ittoku is the robustness of the menu; the things you want to try always conflict with the tried and true pleasures you’ve come back for. 

The Middle East returns to serving food this weekend, managers said Thursday. The Central Square complex of nightclubs and restaurants has been shut down since March 2020.

Intimate and inviting, Harvest is a treat, especially with its well-maintained back patio encased by trellises – perfect for enjoying a pricy but lavish summertime lobster roll with just-made potato chips.