Phantom Gourmet Guide to Boston's Best Restaurants

I am big fan of Phantom's reviews and taste in food. Unlike Zagat etc, this is not made for tourists and flashy places get no advantage: food matters most. Phantom exposes the hole-in-the-wall places with the best food in the Boston and surrounding area and still reviews the expensive and touristy places as well. The book is like a pocket reference to years of Phantom reviews. You would have to watch his show for years to learn what is presented in this $10 book. Extremely well organized, restraurants are organized not only by neighborhood, but by food type (Great 8) as well. Keep the book around for quick reference, and any night you aren't quite sure where you want to go out to eat, pick it up and try something new.

The Phantom Gourmet has created an indispensible guide to the culinary pleasures of Boston and the rest of New England. You can call me a Phantom Phanatic! Even though I live in New York City, I still got this book to use whenever I vist friends up north. Phantom covers everything from fast food to haute cuisine, which makes this more useful than a guide like Zagats. More intensive reviews tell you more, too. Phantom, we need you in other cities!

Unlike Zagat's, the Phantom's guide is easy to navigate and features a logical scoring system. To answer the previous reviewers question, the Phantom is definitely one person and hasn't even met with the Andelman's in person since he/she was hired. As for considering chain food haute cuisine, that just isn't true - one of the good thing about this book is that it rates ALL kinds of food, from simple chain slop to the finest dining. Its inclusiveness is part of what makes it great. To anyone living in or visiting Boston, this guide is a must.

what a great idea! I love the show and I can't always remember all the reviews. this book puts it all together. I am always looking for new places to go and with this book I don't have to second guess what types of food are at these restaurants. I love this book! It is a MUST HAVE !

I just picked this book up the other day. I'm an avid viewer of the Phantom Gourmet program broadcast here in Boston and saw they had they put together a restaurant guide. I just had to pick it up to see what the book entailed. I was extremely delighted in the content of this book. It is way much more in depth than the Zagat's survey restaurant guide and really explains the kind of atmosphere that you will experience in each dining venue. There are some great hideaway places in the book as well that I am intrigued about and am looking foward to trying out. The reviews listed in the Phantom Gourmet Guide are definately worth the read for fellow food fanatics. I would recommend this book to anyone who has an enormous appetite for trying new and interesting foods.