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Excellent for dinner with friends. Great tasting Asian dishes to share and super cocktails. The decor and lighting, music, this place has a great ambience. Whether eating at high top, the fabulous long bar upstairsor low tables you'll have a great evening.

This is truly one of the better restaurants I’ve been to. Certainly one of the best in Boston. Delicious and creative food expertly prepared by culinary artists served by well informed and engaged servers. From the tuna crudo to the friend monkfish and then on to our pasta and snapper, outstanding food in every bite. This was our 5th visit and I would add that as good as each visit was, this was the best. The environment is lovely but not overdone. I am both saddened and fairly happy that I don’t live closer. It would be too easy to stop in, sit at the bar and enjoy some of this or that on a regular bases. After 70 years of life, I still have to wonder if that much of a good thing is ok. Bravo, bravo, bravo!

what a lovely restaurant. Beautiful decor and branding with the littlest but perfect touches. They had an extensive wine and cocktail menu. The wine that Sarah got was lovely. The two cocktails that I got were fabulous. started with the strait of Messina Which was a calabrian chili-infused tequila, prickly pear, lemon. perfect balance of spicy, but sweet yet still refreshing. The next drink I got was the improved spritz. This I think was an aperol spritz with olive juice. It was great. It had a perfect mind of the salty olive brine and the sweet aperol. I’ve had something like this once before, and I am a fan. This came in a tall rocks glass, which isn’t very cute, but at least it wasn’t a coupe glass. The focaccia was so mid. i was not a fan of this. the bottom was sooooo hard, and the bread itself was not light a fluffy. kinda dense and not enough salt in my opinion. It had rosemary on top, but the rest of the bread besides the top was very bland tasting. The next dish we had was the shaved Brussel sprout salad with roasted hazelnuts, pickled red onion, dried cranberries, and a Caesar vinaigrette dressing. This was yummy. It reminded me of a chopped salad the way that everything was very small and you could get every ingredient in the salad in one bite. then for mains, we both got the Bolognese tagliolini. This was a fabulous Bolognese sauce. You could tell that it had been cooking for a while. The spices were complex and it had a note of sweetness, which was surprisingly nice. The noodles were not al dente, but still very good. they were the Perfect size for me, as I don’t like a thick noodle. This was probably top 10 Bolognese that I’ve had in Boston for sure. we finished the night with a tiramisu. This is a delightful tiramisu. It was chocolate heavy without being overwhelming. All of the components were very well done and not one overshadowed anything else.

We had a great experience at Bar’Cino. We brought our friend and her family to celebrate her birthday. We were sat in a lovely booth and enjoyed the fabulous meal. The food is very good and the atmosphere is lively, but not too noisy. We are lucky to have such a great neighborhood place.

Amazing experience. Great food and service. Will return.