Bootleg Special

Bootleg Special is a Boston restaurant and bar with a Southern-chic, urban-edged look modeled on the classic inner-city speakeasies of New Orleans’ French Quarter. The New American menu blends bold Southern and Asian flavors, and its specialty is fresh seafood boils, such as a lobster and clam Cajun boil, snow crab and shrimp, and a Low Country boil, served with corn and potatoes and a choice of house sauces.

Beyond the boils, the kitchen turns out elevated New Orleans favorites and shareable plates: oysters on the half shell, signature garlic noodles, buffalo chicken dumplings, short rib tacos, gumbo and po’boys with fried oyster, shrimp or catfish. Blueberry brioche bread pudding is among the desserts, and a distinctive cocktail list rounds things out. Small plates, sharable platters and entrees let groups mix and match across the menu.

What to Know

• Catering covers birthdays, holiday parties, corporate events and weddings.
• The restaurant is set up as a special event venue.
• Tables can be booked through Yelp.
• Directory listings tag it as farm to table and suited to special occasions.