No.9 Park

Very disappointing food. Especially at a high price. Only the desert was very good. All other dishes were fair to poor. Fish was sent back, it seemed off. Scallops themselves were great but the sauce with them was uninteresting. Steak tartare meat was good, but it was covered in mediocre sauces as well. Service was very good. Had an excellent waiter.

Cocktails tres bien

Not worth going for the food. Staff was attentive and welcoming. Food was fine but nothing memorable. Just a BORING experience. All the dishes had a bit “washed-up/has-been pasty old white men” feeling. Kinda ironic. Two people prix fixe for 400+ (including tips, cocktails, no wine), the whole dinner is “NOT ENOUGH”. At this price, I had much better tasting menu experiences in other pricy cities like LA/NYC/DC. Cost adjusted, not a good choice. (Haven’t found a decent restaurant in Boston in this price range yet) If you dine on company card, I’d say go for it. Good non-offensive food and nice ambiance. If you look for good food, look somewhere else.

I am very disappointed with our experience eating at No.9 Park last night. For the money, it was a complete rip-off. Yesterday was my mom’s birthday, so I was in touch with the restaurant for a few months, booking the reservation as soon as I was able to. I had heard great things and was looking forward to trying this flagship restaurant. Despite the importance of the occasion that I communicated, we were not seated with any special consideration - no window seat for us. The ambience in the rest of the restaurant feels like you are sitting in someone’s living room, which of course would be fine had the food made up for it. It did not. There were only two options on the menu: a tasting menu or a prix fixe. When one of us wanted to do a tasting menu and the others prix fixe, we were told that we all had to do the same. There was no a la carte. I reached out to the restaurant numerous times in advance to ask for a pescatarian option for my mom, but this was not prepared for us ahead of time. While our server did offer a pescatarian version of the tasting experience upon me asking, it was unclear what that would even include. We went with the prix fixe, and I can say that overall, it was an unbalanced, carb heavy meal. The food was not worth the $140-$155 price tag. There was only one vegetable option for the starter: a very plain, bitter green salad. The steak tartare began to taste monotonous after a while. The ricotta fritters tasted like the child of amusement park fried dough and pub mozzarella sticks. For the second course, most options were carb focused. While the prune gnocchi were delicious, the only way to order them is with a $15 supplement no matter what menu you choose. The entree was very disappointing with very small portions. The sea bass was salty, and the beef bourguignon was seasoned like simple beef you would have in a stew. It had no vegetable accompaniment, and the mashed potato portion was extremely small in comparison to the amount of beef. The dessert was absolutely abominable. Yes, it was very kind of the restaurant to offer us the soufflé complementary. But my mother loves pavlova normally, and she said this was the weirdest one she ever had. I tried it, and it was chemical-tasting. The caramel dessert was similarly so overly fruity that it tasted gross and we could not eat it. This isn’t even getting started on the cocktails, which were expensive, watered down, and sugary - mine had a huge block of ice taking up more than half the glass. Bottom line - I would not recommend unless you want to shell out almost 250 a person for a mediocre experience at best.

I’ve dined in a couple of times in 2023 at the bar. It was good then, especially dessert! Haven’t been in yet for this year. Would like to see if anything had changed since the closure of the other Barbara Lynch restaurants, but excited for my next visit!