5. Rialto

If you are looking for passable food at grotesquely inflated prices with a surly, pretentious maitre 'd, then this just may be the place for you. As a bonus you will get a noisy environment, food you may have to send back multiple times until they get it "right", and you may be lucky enough to get a table sized for your kindergardener. How do you have more fun than that? You can do better just about anywhere (in fact, I have). Never again. I gave it one star only because that's the lowest rating this review service would accept.

When ever I think of Boston in recent years I yearn to go back to Rialto; atmosphere was luxurious and the food was sublime. Rialton is at the top of my Boston list.