A fresh seafood restaurant and its adjoining market in Boston are saying farewell a little over a year after opening. Hook + Line and H+L Market will close for good at the end of service on Wednesday, ...

The first time I visited Boston Fish Market in suburban Des Plaines, I was hooked. It was for lunch 10 years ago, and I ended up staying for hours and feasting on seafood from all over the world.

It’s a common refrain about Boston’s Seaport District: It’s full of chains, and it’s full of steakhouses. Fortunately that’s becoming less true—see recent non-chain, non-steakhouse arrivals like the ...