Canary Square

Update: sadly to us they changed the menu removing many of our favorites and now mostly pizza and snacks. Still good and nice ambience, but not our choice anymore for a meal out. I suspect this change was due to staffing issues, so maybe they’ll bring the old menu back one day. Kale Caesar and ribs are very missed!! Highly recommend. We've had 3 excellent meals here over the past couple months and it has quickly jumped to the top of our list for neighborhood restaurants. We've lived a 10 minute walk away for 5 years and after 2 mediocre visits early on it was never high on our list. Well, that changed. They have a new chef and manager and the quality and experience are now excellent. We haven't had a dish or drink we didn't love. We've ordered the kale caesar every time, the jerk ribs are delicious, the pizza respectable, duck confit mmmm, and the maple cheese bacon fries, OMG. Can't wait to try the rest of the menu. The servers are very attentive and friendly (though they've recently hired a bunch it seems so many are very new and need to learn the menu and be able to describe food/make recommendations better, but they'll get there I'm sure). The patio is great - lots of seating, fun people watching. Indoors is huge with big garage doors so in nice weather you get excellent airflow (bye bye airborne covid). Also, somehow they always have excellent music on that I simultaneously love but have never heard, which just makes the experience even more special. THANK YOU!

In a word, sublime. My wife and I lived in JP for several years and without a doubt went to Canary Square more than any other restaurant in the entire city. While some might think that's limiting, I'd counter with "when you know, you know." We lived just down the street so it was of course convenient, but in reality it was so much more: the draft list alone would be worth 5 stars. The food was always incredible, however "small" might think the menu was. (It was also one of the few places that, thankfully, consistently served a black bean burger.) I, personally, didn't think it was any different than most smaller restaurants in the neighborhood or even the whole of the city. The staff were always pleasant in my view, and we always *always* got sat quickly even on busy Friday/Saturday nights, simply because they eventually came to recognize us. Now we live in Pennsylvania but whenever we visit Boston we plan it so that we can leave early enough to get to CS before they close and have dinner. Don't miss out!

I like this place for long, living around JP I'd go for a good beer and sitting outside. But OMG they renovated the menu and it's just PERFECT!!! A lot of small plate options to mix match and share. Kudos to the upgrade! Plus their staff is always so nice, fun and friendly. Just one of those places you must go :)

Casual upscale bar and restaurant with a focus on locally sourced ingredients. Really warm service, we took a high top by the bar, had couple outstanding cocktails, the pineapple daiquiri is worth going back for! The charcuterie board was good but the pork bun that I got was simply out of this world. My husband liked his steak frites and my house made fettuccine with peas and parmesan was decent but a little dry. Would definitely go back.