Monday, August 17, 2026 · Boston · Horizon 0–90 days
Somerville · opens August 20
The Spoke team’s bigger, stranger bistro — and a North End feast weekend already underway
Liars · 1153 Broadway, Teele Square · opens Thursday, August 20
Mary Kurth, chef Paul Butler, and Katie Weismann take the old True Bistro: beef-tongue steak bomb on a sizzling platter, elk wraps with gamtae, cauliflower-leek-marcona soup with shrimp, and rye pours with a squirt gun of water. Boston Magazine, August 11. Dine Out Boston ended Saturday; the 116th Fisherman’s Feast closed Sunday, including the Flight of the Angel. Eater Boston’s openings index has not posted a monthly roundup since January.
Photo: Rachel Leah Blumenthal / Boston Magazine (og:image)
Marzae Cellar + Provisions’ full launch is today at Boston Public Market. Fisherman’s Feast, Quincy’s August Moon Festival, and the Dominican Parade were yesterday. African Festival was Saturday on the Common. Liars is Thursday. St. Anthony’s is the last weekend of the month.
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Boston Magazine, the Globe, Boston.com, Meet Boston, and Infatuation Boston are the desk. Eater Boston’s /openings page is stale (last monthly file: January 2026). The Globe and Magazine paywalls sometimes throttle images; the og:images used here loaded.
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Boston Public Market · today
Marzae Cellar + Provisions — full launch
Soft-opened late July · full launch Monday, August 17 · 100 Hanover St
Eliot Martin and Katie Luczai’s 1,800-square-foot natural-wine bar, kitchen counter, and provisions shop. Globe, August 12: full launch Aug. 17. Brunch in September; Off Piste Ferments kombuchas later.
Quincy Asian Resources’ 39th year, with the City of Quincy: lion dance and opening ceremonies at noon, food, amusements, and a marketplace. Free; Red Line to Quincy Center. Limited parking at the South Shore YMCA and Quincy High School.
Sunday · parade 11 a.m. from Perkins Street to Franklin Park
Boston 25, this morning: the annual Dominican Parade and Festival is on, stepping off an hour earlier than last year. Mayor Wu said the city built a family-safety plan around food and music at the park. Circuit Drive and Franklin Park Road are closed; officials are asking people to take the T.
Ended Saturday, August 15 · lunch $27–$36 · dinner $38–$55
Meet Boston’s official restaurant week closed last night. Nearly 200 rooms; Boston.com (August 6) flagged Fallow Kin’s first Dine Out and Fuji’s five sushi counters as new this edition.
Thursday–Sunday, August 13–16 · North and Fleet Streets · free to enter
Madonna del Soccorso di Sciacca, street vendors, the Sorrento Cheese tower, Flight of the Angel on Sunday night. The feast’s own site is the calendar. Meet Boston lists it on the 2026 North End feast schedule.
Saturday, August 15 · 9 a.m.–8:30 p.m. · Boston Common, 139 Tremont St · free
Secret Boston: the 16th annual returns under the theme Together We Rise — live performances, drumming, traditional dance, fashion, food, art, and vendors. More than 11 hours on the Common.
Sunday, August 16 · 11 a.m.–5 p.m. · $35 early entry 10–11 a.m. · Center for Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave
Marketplace and tastings: Red Kettle Kimchi, Hex Ferments, Moromi soy. A “kraut mob” and a fermentation help desk. Boston.com, August 13. Free general admission.
Bey, if you want a table that is not a feast street
280 Shawmut Ave · mezze $12–$26, kebabs $24–$32
The Globe’s August 13 review: the Samaha family’s Lebanese boîte in their old yoga studio — falafel, rekakat, a dip flight, kafta, grilled branzino, a Lemonana and a Queens Gimlet. Dating-app couples and Arabic-speaking grandparents in the same room.
Soft-opened late July · full launch August 17 · Boston Public Market, 100 Hanover St
Eliot Martin and Katie Luczai’s 1,800-square-foot natural-wine bar, kitchen counter, and provisions shop (the state’s first natural-wine tasting room, they say). Brunch in September; Off Piste Ferments kombuchas later. Globe, August 12.
Opened last month · 18 Meridian St, Maverick Square · 8 a.m.–midnight daily
Elkin Villegas built the room, then became the owner. Colombian coffee, brunch, honey-barbecue chicken already popular in the early weeks. Boston Magazine, August 10.
Now open · 179 Massachusetts Ave · former Dumpling Palace
Boston Restaurant Talk / NBC Boston: handmade dumplings, buns, noodles, sizzling dry-wok plates, and mala hot pot in the old Dumpling Palace room. Different ownership; similar menu. No calendar door date beyond “now open.”
Office-themed bar in the old Daiquiris & Daisies stall: ice-cold martini lunches, an “expense account” vodka drink, Sazeracs, Paper Planes. Boston.com, August 13.
Salt + Stone, Leopard Lounge, Mochiko, Salt & Straw, Jafra
Assembly Row; South Boston under Dalia; Brighton; Seaport; Inman Square
Salt + Stone is back after a fire, with a wood-fired grill. Leopard Lounge is Dalia’s 75-seat downstairs, open until 1 a.m. (no paella). Mochiko Hawaiian’s second shop is on Guest Street. Salt & Straw’s first Boston scoop shop is at 200 Seaport Blvd. Jafra is Levantine food and a hookah lounge on Hampshire Street (food minimum 5–9:45 p.m.). Infatuation has not reviewed them yet.
Saturday, August 22 · 11 a.m.–5 p.m. · Rowes Wharf Plaza and three blocks north
The Rose Kennedy Greenway’s own page: 15 trucks, DJ Carlitoswave, artisan market, inflatables, mini-golf, carousel. Rain or shine unless they post otherwise.
August 28 · 53 Boston Wharf Road · former Yoki Express
Phil Turley and chef Kelsey Urbanczyk: grab-and-go “Benefit Boxes” without refined sugar, seed oils, or gluten, macros on the lid. Boston.com, August 6.
Grey’s: August 22, Quincy Center · Harry Hare’s: fall, 149 Charles St · Johnny Boy: fall, 300 Summer St
Grey’s is a South Shore cart going brick-and-mortar (Boston Magazine, August 4). Harry Hare’s is the Lyons Group’s British-and-British-Indian room in the old Beacon Hill Pub (Boston.com, August 6). Johnny Boy is Jeff Almendras’s Filipino sandwich pop-up becoming a restaurant — tamarind tots, fried-chicken adobo (Boston.com, August 13). No day for the last two.
