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July 4
The ever-elegant Asana restaurant and M Bar & Lounge lend a touch of class to Fourth of July proceedings. They're offering special holiday-themed cocktails, plus a delectable brunch buffet perfect for pre-fireworks fortification. Choose from a never-ending parade of options including fondues, dim sum, Japanese and Thai curries, fresh seafood, oysters and a variety of omelet creations. Smoothies and juices will also be available all morning. Who needs burgers? Reservations are recommended. Cost is $74 for adults and $29 for kids. Asana, 776 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02116, 617-535-8880.
July 4
Beginning at 1 p.m., make tracks to 51 Lincoln for a 4th of July barbecue better than anything you could whip up in your backyard. Jeff Fournier prepares nostalgic standards to be enjoyed at the restaurant or to be taken home. Choices include clam chowder, North Carolina pulled pork, BBQ beef brisket, and a to-die-for house-made hot dog with traditional fixings and pickles. Corn on the cob, homemade cornbread, and Jeff's mom's coleslaw round out the menu. Cost varies depending on menu item, but portions are concocted for sharing. 51 Lincoln, 51 Lincoln St., Newton Highlands, MA 02461, 617-965-3100.
Ongoing
The prices may be a bit steep at Craigie on Main, but chef Tony Maws tries to keep things low-key and homey with a nightly prix-fixe "neighborhood menu" for $38, with the chef's choice of salad, entrée and dessert. Craigie on Main, 853 Main St., Cambridge, MA 02139, 617-497-5511.
Ongoing
Marco on the North End offers a $25 prix-fixe menu Tuesday through Saturday between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., as well as family style Sunday supper from 4 p.m.-9:30 p.m. The menu changes frequently. For more information, please call 617-742-1276. Marco, 253 Hanover St., Boston, MA 02113, 617-742-1276.
Mondays
Make the most of Mondays at Red Rock Bistro & Bar, whose bar serves up oysters, shrimp skewers, corn dogs and sliders for $1 each from 11 a.m. to midnight. Red Rock Bistro & Bar, 141 Humphrey St., Swampscott, MA 01907, 781-595-1414.
Mondays
Monday night is Sandwich Night at POPS, where an à la carte array of noshes not otherwise offered–including an Italian sausage baguette with broccoli rabe and tomato sauce, a fried-egg BLT with pepper aïoli on an onion roll and a grilled eggplant panino with mozzarella, hummus and walnuts–will be available for eating in or taking out before the big game, accompanied by homemade potato chips. POPS, 560 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02118, 617-695-1250. 
SaturdaysIndulge in chocolate dreams at Café Fleuri’s Saturday Chocolate Bar at the Langham Hotel in Boston from noon-3 p.m. The Chocolate Bar is an all-you-can-eat chocolate affair will feature sweets that hew to this year’s theme of the four elements: air, fire, water and earth (think cotton candy, white-chocolate arancini, a chocolate fountain, and black forest cake–get it?–respectively). Reservations are recommended. Cost is $35; $18 children 5-12; free for children 4 and under. Café Fleuri, The Langham Hotel, 250 Franklin St., Boston, MA 02110, 800-791-7764.
Sundays
Every summertime Sunday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Dante deMagistris of dante whips up a foodie-gasmic "inferno" on his patio. The menu takes diners from "heaven" to "purgatory" to "hell." Heaven begins with ethereal baked goods and pastries washed back with sweet Prosecco. Purgatory offers a taste of Dante's signature Italian cuisine, with handmade spaghetti carbonara, guanciale, egg and parsley. Then, the descent into hell begins: spicy Bloody Marys, devilishly large slabs of French toast, lobster sandwiches and polenta pancakes with maple syrup and fruit. Reservations are recommended. Cost is $20 and cocktails are $9. Dante, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, 617-497-4200. dante, Royal Sonesta Hotel Boston, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA 02142, 617-497-4200.
Sundays
Chef Lydia Shire's Scampo offers Sunday Suppers from 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. The three-course family-style menu includes a salad to begin, then a choice of Maria & Sabatino's manicotti with meatballs and braciole; chicken thighs with Moroccan lemon braise and Kennebec potato frites; or baby veal chops with crumb crust of garlic and parsley with carrots and tortellini con burro. The meal finishes with homemade Neopolitan spumoni with claret sauce. Scampo, The Liberty Hotel, Boston, 215 Charles St., Boston, MA 02114, 857-241-1150.
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