Best Restaurants with a Wood Oven in Downtown Crossing

8 restaurants available nearby

1. Celeste

4.8

Exceptional(38)

Price: Expensive

• Peruvian • Somerville

Booked 15 times today

It’ll be hard to find a restaurant as welcoming and lovely as Celeste. The Union Square spot feels like a party hosted by your very cool artsy friends, who just happen to make the best ceviche in town. Every dish here is tantalizing—throw in pisco-heavy drinks and a psychedelic cumbia playlist, and you’re in for the very best of Andean culture.Recently included in The New York Times Best restaurants in Boston, Chef JuanMa and co-owner Maria Rondeau have been nominated for James Beard Best New Restaurant Semi-Finalist, Esquire's Best Restaurants in America, and Eater's Best Restaurant in Boston.

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2. The Helmand Restaurant

4.6

Exceptional(733)

Price: Expensive

• Middle Eastern • Cambridge

Booked 26 times today

Helmand Restaurant offers Afghani dishes with a wood-burning oven where the famous flatbread is cooked on one side of the room and an intimate fireplace is on the other side.Helmand Restaurant entrées include tasty choices like qabelee, which is pallow rice baked with chunks of lamb tenderloin, raisins and glazed carrots or mantwo, a homemade pasta shell filled with beef and onions. If you like spicy dishes, try the koufta challow, consisting of beef meatballs with Afghan seasoning sautéed with sun-dried tomato, hot peppers and green peas in a fresh tomato sauce. Several vegetarian entrées are also available such as the kaddo and banjan challow, which is pan fried and baked pumpkin and eggplant served with challow rice and yogurt garlic sauce.*Due to limited patio seating, we do not take reservations for our patio . Please note the patio or any other special requests in your reservation, or ask upon arrival, and we will do our best to accommodate.

3. Molinari's

4.8

Exceptional(457)

Price: Moderate

• Italian • Dorchester

Booked 27 times today

“I wanted to do a place with good Italian comfort food. The simplicity of it, the freshness of it, the quality of ingredients that you get to work with.” They specialize in that quintessential Italian comfort food – pizza. “I think it’s great that the city of Boston is turning around and starting to become known for pizza like the other big cities in the country,” he said. “It is such a simple food but it all comes down to the quality of ingredients.” It’s all done out of an open kitchen where the star of the show is Molinari’s wood burning oven.

4. SOURCE Restaurant

4.6

Exceptional(556)

Price: Moderate

• Pizza Bar • Cambridge

Booked 19 times today

SOURCE is a fresh, modern approach to the local gastro pub and pizza bar. Source is an innovative dining destination featuring rustic yet refined food, and an unmatched craft and local beverage program. Utilizing local and sustainable products and only the purest ingredients, SOURCE’s mission is to embrace the root of who we are and what we consume. Owned by Restaurant veteran Daniel Roughan, SOURCE offers guests the space to enjoy delicious quality authentic Neapolitan-style pizza cooked in a wood-fired oven. In addition to pizza SOURCE will offer an assortment of small plates, entrees and homemade desserts. SOURCE will be open daily for lunch and dinner as well offering an unforgettable brunch experience both Saturdays and Sundays. Welcome home, Welcome to SOURCE.

5. Cafe Amaro

4.6

Exceptional(98)

Price: Moderate

• Italian • North End

Booked 10 times today

At Cafe Amaro we specialize in making Italian brick-oven pizza in Boston's North End. Be seated outdoors, or in our intimate, relaxed indoor dining room, with tall open windows facing Hanover St. Start off with select cocktails, beer, or fine wine. Enjoy a few small plates with friends while choosing the perfect pizza for you! Finish your stay with an amaro, limoncello, or North Ends favorite, an Espresso Martini, made with home-made cold brew espresso. We're looking forward to having you!

6. Prairie Fire

4.8

Exceptional(484)

Price: Moderate

• American • Brookline

Booked 50 times today

We are currently open seven days a week. Saturday & Sunday we are open with an All Day Menu. Reservations can be made on our website, or through OpenTable. Due to the intimate nature of our dining room, if you would like to make a reservation for more than 4 guests, please give us a call at the restaurant. We hold reservations for a 15 minute grace period. Please call us if you are running late, we will do our best to hold your table but cannot guarantee it. Due to the size of our dining room, we do appreciate 1.5 hour dining experiences for parties of 1-2 guests, 2 hours for parties of 3-4, and 2.5 hours for parties of 5 or more guests that book reservations. We always welcome walk-in guests to our bar.Reach us at 617-396-8199 with questions, comments or additional assistance. We hope to see you soon!

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7. Stoked Pizza - Cambridge

4.7

Exceptional(124)

Price: Moderate

• Pizza Bar • Cambridge

Booked 3 times today

Parties 20+ will be subject to a table minimum of $25/person per hour.The foundation for the pizza at Stoked Pizza Company comes from meticulously studying the ingredients and techniques used to produce our favorite classic pizza styles and highlighting the strengths of each in what we make. We prefer a crust that is soft and light on the inside with a crisp outer shell that can stand up on its own. We want our ingredients and topping combinations to provide an explosion of flavor. To achieve this we use extremely hot ovens along with carefully researched dough formulations, tomato varieties, and cheese blends, sparing no expense and taking no shortcuts.

8. Steel and Rye

4.7

Exceptional(1697)

Price: Moderate

• Contemporary American • Milton

Booked 34 times today

Thank you for reserving a table at Steel & Rye! PLEASE NOTE: FOR WEEKDAY LUNCH RESERVATIONS, STEEL & RYE OFFERS COUNTER SERVICE FROM OUR BAKERY BETWEEN 7:00 A.M. AND 4:00PM (Mondays until 2:30pm). All reservations after 4pm for Dinner will be provided full table service and are for inside tables only. Outside tables are currently first come, first served and orders may be placed via QR code.

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LILIANA
Greater Boston •3 reviews
5.0
Dined 1 day ago
A go to spot for sure, the food is incredible and the BEST PERUVIAN SPOT PERIODT. VEry home-y dishes and excellent drinks. IF i want good ceviche and good home food i go here!!!
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CelestePrice: Expensive• Peruvian• Somerville
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4.8
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Cindyvip
Greater Boston •16 reviews
4.0
Dined 4 days ago
The food is excellent! I've been a long time customer. The service was off tonight. Customers that arrived 15 minutes after us were being served before us, breakdown in communication about what we ordered and some of the servers were hustling while others were chatting with each other & looking at their phones despite a busy dining room with others, including us, waiting quite awhile to have our plates cleared and water refilled.
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The Helmand RestaurantPrice: Expensive• Middle Eastern• Cambridge
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4.6
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Heather
Greater Boston •1 review
5.0
Dined 7 days ago
Cozy atmosphere. Friendly staff. Delicious food. Homemade pasta cooked to perfection.
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Molinari'sPrice: Moderate• Italian• Dorchester
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4.8
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Larry
New York City •28 reviews
5.0
Dined on Nov 16, 2024
Great place, great intersting pizza. Love going there, but make a reservation or you might not get in!
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SOURCE RestaurantPrice: Moderate• Pizza Bar• Cambridge
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4.6
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Marissa
Greater Boston •2 reviews
4.0
Dined on Nov 16, 2024
Meal was delicious! We started with the burrata. It was so fresh! Then shared a marinara pizza and vodka fussili. So fresh and incredible. Wine was amazing and espresso martini was one of the best.
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Cafe AmaroPrice: Moderate• Italian• North End
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4.6

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8 restaurants available nearby

1. Celeste

2. The Helmand Restaurant

3. Molinari's

4. SOURCE Restaurant

5. Cafe Amaro

6. Prairie Fire

7. Stoked Pizza - Cambridge

8. Steel and Rye

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