The Progress

Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski's Fillmore restaurant, the more ambitious sibling to State Bird Provisions next door — communal tables, family-style platters built around the live-fire kitchen, a menu that rewards diners willing to commit to the full experience. The cooking is generous and confident, the wine program leans natural, the room is warm without being studied. A real dinner-party energy that most restaurants try and fail to replicate.