Southie's West Broadway Is Quietly Becoming A Chef-Driven Corridor

Walk West Broadway between D Street and F Street on a Saturday night in June 2026 and the sidewalk reads differently than it did a year ago. A wood-fired Spanish kitchen with a Barcelona-built Josper grill sits on one corner. A Cambridge-born Neapolitan pizza shop has taken a storefront a block west. Around the corner on Damrell Street, a James Beard-winning chef is running a rotating menu inside the ground floor of a new apartment building. None of these existed here on New Year's Day.

For a neighborhood whose dining identity has long been anchored by long-timers like