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Frommer's Highly Recommended

This old-time Harvard Square favorite (the restaurant dates to 1977, the bar all the way to 1955) is a landmark for a reason, and it's not just the hopping bar scene. The walls of the long, sky-lit dining room and crowded, noisy bar sport murals of scenes from the movie Casablanca. Humphrey Bogart looks as though he might lean down to ask for a taste of your crispy eggplant with herbed ricotta or roasted leg of lamb with charred tomatoes. The appetizers and tapas are so good that you might want to assemble them into a meal -- start with the Turkish meze plate or fried calamari. Just be sure to leave room for dessert; I don't usually have much use for fruit when there's chocolate around, but the spice cake here made me reconsider. I also usually go nuts when service is this erratic (it's better at lunch than at dinner), but somehow that's not the impression that sticks.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Boston 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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