Neighborhood Spotlight: Fort Point and Seaport

With a total of 100 beers available — 60 on tap and another 40 by can or bottle — City Tap Fort Point delivers a selection few can match. Once you’ve found your ideal Berliner weisse or New England IPA, turn your attention to a similarly expansive food menu. It ranges from comforting bar classics like pretzels and pub cheese to brick-oven pizzas drizzled with truffle oil.

Congress Street gets its pizza fix from Pastoral, which serves up charred and chewy Neapolitan pies topped with the likes of veal meatballs or hand-torn mozzarella. You can make pizza the main event, or pair it to fresh pastas like rigatoni Bolognese or wood-fired brussels sprouts with pancetta and macerated orange. Beer geeks take note: In addition to local brews, Pastoral boasts one of the widest selections of Italian craft beer in the area.

The Fort Point location of Andy Husbands’s barbecue chain doesn’t do subtle, and we wouldn’t want it any other way. Where else in Boston could you find pimento mac-and-cheese, Texas-style brisket, and Mississippi Mud Pie under the same roof? It also stocks one of the more envious whiskey selections in town, counting rare WhistlePig releases and grail-status Japanese whisky bottles among its stash.

Trillium’s Fort Point restaurant and brewery offers 20 site-made beers and three levels to enjoy them: a first-floor taproom, a second-floor dining room, and a third-floor terrace. Make a Resy to ensure your table will be ready when hop-induced hunger strikes, and fill up on rustic fare like grilled octopus with mint salsa verde and bone-in ribeye with black garlic butter.