The Boston food scene has been playing it safe lately, and the fall restaurant openings we’re anticipating this year reflect a desire for the cozy and familiar. Expect pub-style comfort food thanks to Harry Hare’s, the well-versed flow of a steakhouse
with Sunday roasts aplenty at the Boston expansion of Hawksmoor. That being said, the Hub is also getting a few new restaurants with live music offerings such as Jazz Urbane Cafe and Session House, a Japanese Italian fusion menu courtesy of Ebisuya Market, and a cheeky restaurant named after a Canadian pop icon — can you guess who? Mark your calendar for these six restaurant openings across the city that will mark the next chapter of Boston dining.
Hawksmoor
15 Necco Street, Seaport District
Opening: Tuesday, September 8
This London steakhouse is expanding to Boston in a big way with a 280-seat restaurant, a large bar space, and an outdoor terrace in the Fort Point neighborhood. The menu features juicy steaks cooked over charcoal and sides like ash-baked beets and beef fat fries. The team is also tapping into the local seafood market to serve wild-caught Maine lobster, local oysters, and scallops from Cape Cod. Every weekend, expect a Sunday roast that pays homage to the restaurant’s motherland.
Celine
324 A Street, Fort Point
Opening: Late September
Coda Restaurant Group, the team behind Venetian and Portuguese spots SRV and Baleia, is opening Celine, a French Canadian-meets-American restaurant taking its cues from Montreal this fall. And yes, it’s named after Montréal icon Celine Dion. Menu details are still hush-hush, but diners can expect strong martinis, a solid French wine program, and food that’s upscale but fun and approachable, more like snacking at a cool bar than having a 10-course fine dining meal.
Harry Hare’s
147 Charles Street, Beacon Hill
Opening: November
It’s apparently going to be a cozy United Kingdom fall because Harry Hare’s, a British-style pub, is opening in Beacon Hill, joining the other English and Irish concepts on this guide. Here, beers and ales will pair with classic dishes like fish and chips, chicken pot pie, and roasts. Expect nods to the Indian diaspora in Britain as well, like chicken tikka masala and tandoori-fired naan.
Jazz Urbane Cafe
2300 Washington Street, Roxbury
Opening: Fall
Boston nightlife is getting a new entertainment hotspot: Jazz Urbane Cafe, a restaurant and live music destination in Nubian Square. The menu features a range of dishes from the African diaspora, all named after famous jazz musicians, like a Brazilian fish stew in a creamy coconut sauce called the Jobim. Behind the bar, expect BIPOC-owned spirit brands like Uncle Nearest and Brown Estates. The restaurant will have live music nearly every night, ranging from soft piano and danceable salsa to foot-tapping classic jazz.
Session House
782 Adams Street, Dorchester
Opening: Fall
An Irish pub focused on live music will open this fall in the space of the former all-day Irish spot Scobie’s Cafe & Bar in Adams Village. The restaurant will center on the concept of soul ceól, Irish for “soul music,” with traditional groups playing regularly. Keeping with the theme, the menu will offer cozy Irish and English pub fare, and the bar will foster a robust whiskey program as well as cocktails, beer, and wine.
Ebisuya Market
24 High Street, Medford
Opening: Fall
A beloved Japanese market that shuttered in 2025 is getting new life as a restaurant destination for fresh noodles, bento, onigiri, Edomae sushi using fermentation traditions from the Edo period, and soft homemade bread. When Ebisuya reopens, the team is adding a new menu of wafu items (Japanese Italian dishes), such as Tokyo-style pizza using the Napoli pizza oven they inherited from the space’s former tenant, Real Italian Gusto, plus handmade pastas.
