
Read on to dive into the menu for Tasting Counter’s forthcoming food hall location and to find out how the team plans to maintain its focus on local, seasonal sourcing while bringing its fine-dining tradition into a fast-casual setting. (Time Out Market Boston handles beverage operations across the market the individual vendors focus on the food.) In some form or another, Tasting Counter’s Time Out Market Boston menu comes straight from Tasting Counter’s Wine Bar menu, with some tweaks here and there - and minus the wine.

It’s a challenge trying to create food that is very labor-intensive, using very high-quality ingredients, at a price that’s affordable, so it’s nice to know that we’re partnering with a group that has that same philosophy - trying to create very high-quality dishes but in a way that’s accessible to a lot more people.” We still know it’s a high ticket price, but we do work really hard to maintain a very good value. We’re doing our best to democratize fine dining as much as possible. “Even though we only have 20 seats, that’s a large part of our philosophy as well. “One of the factors that drew us into agreeing to partake in the Time Out Market Boston project was one of the first things they said to us: They want to bring fine dining to the masses,” Ungár told Eater.


The Time Out Market Boston location will be a natural extension of that. While Tasting Counter serves high-end tasting menus for lunch and dinner, the expansion to a casual, counter-service spot in a food hall won’t be an entirely new way of thinking for Ungár and his team: Tasting Counter transforms into the Wine Bar late at night Wednesday through Saturday and all evening on Tuesday, serving a more laidback, a la carte selection that still reflects the overall Tasting Counter ethos. The market will feature an impressive group of popular local chefs and restaurants, including a new outpost of chef Peter Ungár’s Tasting Counter, an acclaimed 20-seat fine-dining restaurant in Somerville, nestled inside of Aeronaut Brewing. Time Out Market Will Have a Star-Studded Lineup, Including Craigie Burger Variations Forthcoming Fenway Food Hall’s Lineup Becomes Even More Stacked
