Aragosta Bar and Bistro

The location and view is great. Comfortable seating on an outdoor patio, some with center fireplaces to keep that harbor chill out.
The food was delicious. I went for the shrimp scampi special. I did enjoy it, just wish the portions were a little bigger.
Definitely a nice place to hang with friends to share a drink or two or three and some apps.

We came here after exploring the North End to get some drinks and appetizers. Unfortunately the patio was closed but the host sat us by a window with an ocean view so that was nice.
We got the salsiccia flatbread, clam chowder, D bolo, truffle fries, and lobster risotto. Everything was pretty good but I thought the D bolo and risotto were a little bit too salty. The D bolo was a gnocchi dish with veal cheek, oxtail ragu, basil and ricotta. It reminded me of a grown up version of Chef Boyardee. The risotto came in a little iron ramekin. It had more of a cheesy rice texture instead of the creamy smooth texture that’s synonymous with risotto. I also did not see or taste any lobster in it so that was pretty disappointing (I also shared the dish with a couple other people so maybe that’s why I didn’t get any lobster). The clam chowder had a strong bacon flavor but it was pretty good. I actually really liked the flatbread. It came with sausage, broccoli rabe, fennel and ricotta. Some places tend to overcook flatbreads but it came out perfect in my opinion.
We got the tiramisu for dessert and it was amazing. It came with fresh berries and dolce de leche gelato. I’m not sure if the gelato is made in house but it was to die for.
As for drinks, the whole menu looked pretty good. I got the white peach sangria and it was ok. It tasted like fruit juice. Not the best I’ve ever had. The other drinks on the menu looked pretty good though.
I really liked the ambience of this place. The hotel it’s in is really nice. I’d recommend Aragosta for a nice date night.

I went there last night… we were outside on the patio, good view and ambiance, good food but so many Rats running around. after a woman started to scream, I left !! It is not at all acceptable having rats in a dining area!

I came here for Restaurant week one year and I am so happy I chose to try this place. Came here for lunch on a weekend, and had an amazing pickled plum salad, porcini flatbread, and tiramisu dessert.
Service was top-​notch and we got seated outside, which was my absolute favorite part of the whole experience. They have beautiful flowerbeds, umbrella topped tables, chairs by the water, and a stunning view of the boston seaside. Unforgettable experience here and would definitely return for a non-​restaurant week menu.

Asked to sit outside and were told there was a $ 25 minimum. Ok. That’s fine. They fire up a grill that you can use for fondue or s’mores if you want to «urban campfire.» We didn’t. What I wanted was a sazerac; after about 20 minutes, waiter came back with the news the bartender couldn’t make me one because he didn’t have any absinthe. Okay, I said it would be okay to substitute a bit of Pernod, but in case the bar didn’t have that, I’d take a cucumber martini. 15 minutes later, I see a martini glass on a tray coming my way. It was the sweetest cucumber martini I’ve ever had. I think the bartender put limoncello in. For my next drink, I ordered a gin martini. The waiter brought me three olives (nice) and a slice (not a twist, mind you) of lemon and lime, so I could take my choice. My advice — order what’s on the drink menu. Best to keep it simple. Even if it is a «bar» and bistro.
Oh yeah, we ate some food here. The seared tuna was as advertised — a small plate. Also had the sirloin tips with mushrooms. Was rare as requested.
The outdoor seating is really wonderful. Tucked back in a courtyard off the street.

The menu is limited and unexciting. The food was very salty as well. The location is great but again the menu lacks pizzaz!

We went for afternoon tea and pasties on Sunday… We had called earlier that week for reservations. Upon arriving they had no reservations for us in their system. We waited about 5 minutes while the hostess «was checking» all along 4 – 5 empty tables existed. We were seated for a good 10 more minutes before any wait staff brought us menus. From there, another 10 minutes before ordering (it was very slow), and then the tea and pastries came. The tiniest assortment and 1 French press of tea for $ 45/​person. What a major rip off, and the pastries were mediocre at best in taste. The waitress never came back, not even once to offer more tea or anything. Poor food, poor service, highly priced ! For $ 90+ tip we could of had a lunch in the North End and all the cannolis we can stomach! Won’t be back :(

Used OpenTable for our reservation. It seemed like a nice place near the waters, although it was a Saturday night and our table faced towards the road.
3 of us girlfriends went there and we enjoyed our food — chicken entrée, gnocchi and oysters.
I liked the ambience and service too.

I’ve been to Aragosta a few times over the past 3 years. Everything was pretty tasty up until i went back for restaurant week in August 2015 (yes, took me a while to write this review) Now I’m not sure if service and food were bad due to the nature of restaurant week, but after that experience i won’t be going back.
The restaurant week menu was a bit tricky, $ 38 for 3 course meal, which consisted of about 7items for that price, the rest of the items on the restaurant week menu were add-on’s, meaning you had to pay extra $ 2-​$ 15 for certain meal options on the same restaurant week menu. Already not worth it.
We got there @7pm and didn’t leave until 10pm– that was for an appetizer, main course and dessert, it wasn’t busy at all, the waitress didn’t communicate very well with us, she would drop by pieces and random dishes as they became available, never asked if we liked the food, I had to tell her that my pasta was dry, and there wasn’t enough sauce on it, it took her 20 minutes to acknowledge it and not do anything about it, by the time she offered me some more sauce i was no longer interested in the meal.
BAD SERVICE, BAD COMMUNICATION. 3 HOURS FOR A 3 COURSE MEAL IS A JOKE. Not to mention it took us forever to flag her down for a check. WILL NOT BE RETURNING THERE
Restaurant is very outdated, various décor from room to room, drinks are overpriced

Bad service all around. There are so many great restaurants in Boston to choose from and this is not one of them. Had dinner with friends (6 of us total) only to have 5 meals come out not 6. It was obvious he never ordered the meal and one of our kids had to wait 10 more minutes for her dish. Add that to the poor service (we had to constantly ask for our waters to be refilled), the bathroom diseaster (primary one was being cleaned and the hostess told me there was no other one-​which there was-​ACROSS THE STREET) and the valet disaster as both of our cars were never called up by the host (who claimed he was calling the numbers our to the valet) we waited outside for 15 minutes before the valet asked us where our tickets and then told us he never got a call. All of this for the $ 376.00 dollars plus valet.
Run for your lives! This establishment stinks from the head down! The two hosts were clueless and useless, the waiter was put out and the valet couldn’t muster an apology for the 20 minute car wait.
I will say the food was delicious but I can name 7 hotels off the top of my head with better restaurants and MUCH better service.

Great place for a relaxing brunch or lunch. Wait staff is very friendly and the patio is very relaxing. If I was staying another night in Boston I would try this place for dinner.
We ordered the cheese plate and it was very generous portions of both the meats and cheeses. My girlfriend is plowing through them like there’s no tomorrow:)
Great place.

Stopped in for cocktails while overlooking the waterfront. We didn’t order any food, just some sorbet. But, the brunch menu looked tasty, and they offer a complimentary Bloody Mary or mimosa with any brunch entrée which is good to know.
I ordered a berries and bubbles cocktail which is a mix of fresh berries, champagne and Grey Goose. It was light, refreshing and delicious. The view of the harbor was pretty breathtaking, too. The only downsides were that we were required to order food, even though we just wanted cocktails, and everything on the menu is really, really expensive.

Great food. Recommend the grilled shrimp app, white bean soup, Brussels sprouts, risotto, and lamb. Great wine selection and interesting cocktail menu.
Good service. Friendly hostess and server. Good wine presentation. Nice outdoor seating.
The fire pits outside are fabulous and offer something different. Call ahead to reserve one. Upscale ambience.

We sat outside at one of the fire pits. Service was a bit slow, but the food was so good! I ordered the clam linguine and it was delicious. I easily could have eaten another plate, it was THAT good. My blueberry lemonade cocktail was delicious too, but not very strong.
Smores were great after such a delicious meal! Will definitely be retuning before summer ends.

It is so hard to give a bad review, because the food was excellent. Once we got it. The problem was, the service was historically poor. It was very disappointing.
So we were a party of four, heading their on a Thursday evening. I called earlier in the week, because we wanted to be outside on the terrace, and was told they don’t accept reservations for the terrace. Ok, thats fine.
I got there about 730, and the hostess asked we had a reservations. I told her What I had been told, and she replied something to the matter «well we didn’t, and then did take reservations, and didn’t. But when people call and ask I just make them anyways»
Ok, that seem like a good company policy one that not all employees know
She said 15 – 20 minutes maybe for a table. ok, fine. I was waiting for the other three in my Part.
Well, after an hour goes by, and we are hungry, we get a bottle of wine at the bar and they bring it to us int he lobby. Finally, after an hour and 20 minutes, at almost 9 we are told the table should be opening up soon. Apparently the guests at the table she thought would have been gone an hour earlier were socializing.
So we went to the table. now dark out, the weather was nice. it is secluded a great spot. We got water, and bread. and no server. After about 15 minutes, we flagged down a server walking by, asking if our server would be coming soon. His reply «Oh, I guess I can help you. do you know what you want»
We ordered a few cheeses to start. then two of the guests got flatbread pizzas for their meal, and the third got a lobster tail app and two sides form the entrée list for a meal, I got an entrée and a side, and ordered another drink — Patron reposado on the rocks. not hard to remember. We asked for all the food to come out at once
So then the flatbreads came out. then my friends app. then after a little while my entrée and her sides. My side never showed up, and since the server we now had couldn’t be found (he didn’t bring us the food), I was without.
After we ate, he did come back. I asked him about my side and my drink — and he said he must not have heard me ask for the side, and he «forgot» about the drink. and apologized. Well, at this point I just wanted to make sure they weren’t on the bill.
By this time it was pushing 11 pm, and they were cleaning off the terrace to close up. While we weren’t specifically asked, we definitely got the vibe they wanted us to leave. which was fine.
So my meal, the scallops, was amazingly good. the cheeses and bread were great. The wine was good, and everyone enjoyed their food.
But from start to finish, service wise, it was just such a horrible experience. From he long wait, made longer by not having a server, to the order mishaps, to the waiting, and everything. It was pretty much miserable. All four of us have worked in food service, and were appalled by the service. which is really bad, because the food was so tremendous. It is bad that the experience was marred so bad by the staff.
Will I try it again? I want to, since the food was good. But I also don’t want to end up with the same service in the future.
I do hope we were just the victims of circumstance, and it isn’t the norm for the restaurant. But it left a very negative impression with us.

Romantic outdoor patio around a REAL fire pit.
If you love smores and fondue, come here!
I came here with my best friend on my birthday and the service and experience was great! It was a great space to talk and hangout. Make sure you have a reservation though! Even though we had a reservation, we had to wait a bit for our pit.
We got two sampler plates. I think the first one was the Battery sampler. The sampler included bread, cheese, meat, dried apricots, dried figs, strawberries and little red peppers. The cheese fondue that came out with it was kind of small for the amount of food on the sampler plate. There was a lot of food on that plate! Definitely could be shared among 4 people if you are planning to get other foods. Everything on the plate was fresh and tasted great. We were here around dinner time, so we asked the waiter if we should order something else from the menu. He said we should have plenty of food from the sampler and the smores plate we were going to get. He said if we were hungry after the sampler plate, he would pay for the appetizer! Very bold statement there. so we thought he was joking. After we finished the sampler plate, we weren’t necessarily super hungry, but there were so many appetizers that sounded tasty so we decided to order the lobster ravioli, which was very yummy! When the bill came, we were surprised that the appetizer was not on the bill! Our waiter was super sweet and attentive :]
The Smores plate was perfect. It came with plenty of graham cracker, marshmallows and Hershey’s chocolate. It also came with sliced bananas and Reeses peanut butter cups! It was the just perfect! It was an elegant smores experience :]

Came here on a Sunday afternoon for a late brunch. The space is really large inside and has a pretty cool vibe. We were seated on the patio and had a great view of the harbor and Coast Guard cutters. Patio was not that busy. Our server was friendly, but as we were one of her only outside tables she wasn’t as attentive as she might have been had she been more busy. (This isn’t an issue for me, I hate when servers are overbearing)
Started with the warm olives from the bar menu and the bread. Ah, the bread. Luckily I did a lot of walking that day so I didn’t feel guilty eating most of it.
I ordered the kobe burger with the fries and the salad. Burger was delicious and perfectly cooked. Salad was very good, although a bit overdressed. Fries were pretty good as well. My date ordered the mushroom omelet, thought it was good and also liked the salad.
Drinks were good, and check was reasonable. We expected it to be a bit more than it was. Would definitely like to check this place out for dinner and the jazz night. If you’re looking for something on the water that’s a little more off the beaten path, this is a great spot to check out.

The tiramisu is a must try! Patrick, the bartender is simply delightful. My fave drink was made perfectly. Love the ambiance and vibe of the place. My ravioli was ok, not much to brag about but the olives and ciabatta were really good.
I would definitely return!

Wanting to try somewhere new and by the waterfront, a friend suggest Aragosta. In a beautiful setting, you are outside and by the wharf.
I love that there was the engagement with the restaurant via FourSquare. That was a great start to the evening. However, we arrived for 7:15 and did not get our food for an hour. It was not that busy that it warranted so much waited time. Only right before the food came out was that addressed.
Nevertheless, the food was good and the atmosphere great. We had wanted to make s’mores but you had to reserve a fire pit instead of an actual table. Noted for the future. The only thing that was frustrating was we asked at the beginning and end of dinner if there was availability for a fire pit table and they said they were reserved. Over the course of a two hour period, there was at least one that was always open. I wish they would’ve at least given us a time frame for the reservation because clearly they missed on further purchases from us due to this fact.

First off, I feel SO deceived. The only reason why I came to this restaurant was because the menu on their website lists that they have duck, and crème brûlée for dessert. When we came to the restaurant, their menu was COMPLETELY different. I was so confused because nothing looked remotely the same so I asked the waitress. Maybe I had come to the wrong restaurant? She said that they changed the menu a week ago. If this is the case, they NEED to update their website. I was so angry but decided to continue through with our dinner.
For an appetizer, we got the lamb meatballs. It’s $ 10, and they give you three small meatballs in a little deep dish covered with arugula. Presentation-​wise, why would they cover the best part of the dish with a pile of leaves?
For my entrée, I got the lobster tagliatelle. It’s $ 36, which is outrageous. I understand lobster is a hot commodity, but it’s really just a plate of pasta with half of a lobster on it. There was nothing good about this dish except the lobster. Let me just say– the bland pasta was in a deluge of oil. I ate less than half of the dish because I felt sick from clogging my arteries. It literally seemed like someone melted an entire stick of butter in it. It’s like eating a cake that is all frosting. I doggy-​bagged the rest of it and it’s in my fridge, but I don’t think I’m even going to attempt to eat it.
Such a shame that for dessert I didn’t get my crème brûlée because that is my favorite. The only thing that looked appealing to me was the tiramisu, but the waitress informed us that they were out of that… great. We settled for the vanilla panna cotta. I don’t think this was made very well because the bottom was a clear congealed gel-​like substance. I didn’t enjoy it at all.
There were a few nice things about the restaurant. The aura was elegant and spacious. It’s located in the Fairmont Battery Wharf hotel so it feels fancy. The waitress was also nice. Other than that, make sure you don’t go off what the menu offers because it is a completely different selection when you get there. Also, I think the prices are incredibly overpriced. If I am going to pay $ 30-​$ 40 for an entrée, I would go somewhere better.