MIDA Boston

Mida is on Tremont Street, a short distance from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The room runs smart and elegant, serving modern Italian cuisine.

While most of the city’s comparable Italian spots crowd into the tourist-heavy lanes near Newbury Street, Mida stays put in the South End. This distance from the usual restaurant clusters is its best asset. You come here for the quiet that the busier sections of the city lose by seven o’clock, making the meal feel less like a performance and more like a local ritual.