Jaime Suarez Common Ground 85 Harvard Avenue, Allston www.commongroundallstin.com   Combining locally-sourced food and drink with Chef Jaime Suarez’s international flair, Common Ground offers an un-common variety of tastes that fits in perfectly amidst the diversity of Allston Rock City. With everything made in-house, guests can be sure of freshness, creativity and quality from bar

Shingara “Peppino” Singh Da Vinci Ristorante 162 Columbus Avenue, Boston http://www.davinciboston.com/   Recognized by restaurateur extraordinaire James Beard as a “notable” restaurant in Boston, Da Vinci Ristorante offers a warm and welcoming décor and amazing artistically-inspired food to Back Bay. Paying tribute to its titular Renaissance man with art and even drinks that reflect his

Jose Torres El Pelón 2197 Commonwealth Avenue, Brighton 92 Peterborough Street, Boston www.elpelon.com   Having not only risen from the ashes of a devastating fire but doubled in size in recent years to serve even more devoted fans, El Pelon brings authentic taqueria tastes to Boston and beyond. From light tostadas to big and beefy

Joanne Chang Flour 131 Clarendon Street, Boston MA 02116 12 Farnsworth Street, Boston 1595 Washington Street, Boston 190 Mass. Avenue, Cambridge www.flourbakery.com   In addition to being half of the excellently eponymous eatery Myers and Chang (along with her husMMd, business partner and fellow master chef Christopher Myers), Joanne Chang is the baking brains behind

Rich Vellante Legal Sea Foods (www.legalseafoods.com)   Having started out over 60 years ago as a sawdust-on-the-floor fish market in Inman Square, Cambridge, Legal Sea Foods has exploded into the nation’s most acclaimed seafood-based chain and one of the world’s premiere purveyors of slap-its-mouth fresh fish and fixins. Each of their 25 (and counting) restaurants