Giulia

Giulia is a small Italian restaurant on Massachusetts Avenue between Harvard and Porter Squares, with a menu that gives you several good reasons to order pasta. Recent dishes include pappardelle with braised wild boar, bucatini with house-cured pancetta, and ricotta-and-corn agnolotti. Start with chicken liver crostini or warm olives, then see what the kitchen is doing with the season’s vegetables, fish, and meat. The dining room takes reservations two weeks ahead, while the 18-seat bar serves the full menu to walk-ins. Larger groups can arrange a five-course family-style dinner at the pasta table. Outdoor tables must be booked by phone; an online reservation is for indoors. Harvard and Porter stations are each about a ten-minute walk away.