Sometimes it depends on the dish you choose from a restaurant menu that makes or breaks the meal, and that was my recent experience at Boda, still one of the most popular Asian restaurants in the Longfellow Square dining loop.

Boda's bar captures a lively crowd from 20-somethings on up

Boda’s bar captures a lively crowd from 20-somethings on up

Getting in to this dining darling is not always easy as lines form out the door every night of the week.  When I arrived on Tuesday night there were plenty of parking spaces in the adjoining Joe’s parking area reserved for the restaurant.  But that belied the activity within. The place was packed.  (Ponder this: what happens  when the parking lot behind Joe’s is rehabbed into a high-rise rental and parking is lost?)

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