Take a vacation to Tulum, a tropical destination on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, without leaving Somerville courtesy of this stylish new addition to the city. Owners Abner Gonzalez and Paul Mongui went all out on the design of the space — lush greenery hangs everywhere, and there’s a giant tree trunk in the middle of one of the dining rooms — which lends a fun, transportative effect to dining out here. Start with a punchy, spicy house margarita, and don’t pass up the chance to try Tulum’s version of one of the Yucatán’s most famous dishes, the slow-roasted, juicy cochinita pibil.

Cicada and the Eaves chef Vinh Le, co-owner Duong Huynh, and their talented team have expanded yet again with rooftop Vietnamese restaurant and bar Saigon Babylon at Sonder 907 Main, a boutique hotel in Central Square. Head to the top-floor oasis for dishes like xôi chim with squab and turmeric sweet rice and coconut salmon paired with inventive cocktails like the Good Dealer, made with gin, yuzu jam, egg white, and pho spices like cinnamon and star anise.

If your food-fueled day trip to Providence isn’t on the calendar yet (side note, it should be), you can still try a little slice of the city via one of its top chefs who just opened an expansion of Jahunger, the acclaimed Providence restaurant, in Cambridgeport. Jahunger is a Uyghur restaurant that is especially known for its chewy, delightful hand-pulled noodles, which you should absolutely try in all its forms, from the namesake Jahunger noodles tossed in a tingly Sichuan sauce to the Laghman noodles, a classic Uyghur noodle dish with stir-fried beef (or eggplant), chili and bell peppers, onions, and Chinese napa cabbage.

Chef John Fraser, currently in charge of the food and beverage at downtown development the Winthrop Center, just opened a Boston steakhouse that doesn’t take itself too seriously — the seafood towers and centerpiece tomahawks are there, of course, but so are French onion dumplings and a foie gras Boston cream pie. Choose a cocktail from beverage director Amy Racine’s encyclopedic cocktail cookbook-of-sorts and order up a feast while admiring the suspended glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly from which the restaurant is named.

This fan-favorite Sichuan restaurant got its start a decade ago in New York City’s East Village. Years later, it’s a transcontinental hit: The restaurant has two locations in New York, a Los Angeles spot, and, as of the past fall, a new outpost in Boston’s Allston neighborhood. The photogenic swing pork belly dish is a staple starter; from there, the menu sings with meat, seafood, and vegetables that are painstakingly braised and marinated in the tingly, complex peppercorn sauces and chilis that the region is famous for.

Take a seat at the smooth hinoki counter and buckle in for the ride at Wa Shin, an impressive new edomae-style omakase experience in Bay Village. Chef Sky Zheng, the former head chef of Michelin-starred Sushi Nakazawa in Manhattan, conducts the show with artful restraint, favoring simple, meticulously sourced courses of nigiri that have included live scallop and ushi ebi made with tiger prawns shelled just before the sushi is served.

The newest place in Boston for a big night out, La Padrona is a glittering Italian restaurant located inside luxury hotel Raffles in Back Bay. Chefs Jody Adams and Amarilys Colon take diners on a tour through Italy’s regional specialties, from Puglia pasta traditions to Tuscany’s showstopper steak dish, the bistecca alla fiorentina. Choose from one of six different kinds of martinis on the cocktail menu to complement the meal.

Taste the bounty of the Portuguese coast at Baleia, a new restaurant from the same team behind Italian restaurants SRV, Gufo, and the Salty Pig. The bifana sliders on puffy, housemade Portuguese sweet rolls are a must, and the punchy sauces and spreads paired with the seafood are scrape-the-plate worthy.

As the name implies, Abuela’s Table welcomes customers as if at their own grandmother’s house, if their grandmother also happens to be a top-notch chef. Owner Adolfo Alvarado transported some of the hits from his Somerville spot Tu Y Yo — those mini fried grasshopper tacos with chiles, or tacos de chapulines, are a must-order — and mixed in a few new plates like a spicy habanero chicken sandwich on a brioche bun. The Mexican restaurant is housed inside a storied spot in Jamaica Plain where Cuban mainstay El Oriental de Cuba once stood.