Moonlite Cafe

One of the best hoagie around if not the best .and the homemade spaghetti is just awesome, so good to have fresh pasta on Sunday !!!!

Different, delicious specials throughout the week! We typically dine in the casual bar area. It gets crowded on weekend nights but there are tables in the restaurant area in the back. I've also attended a few wakes/celebrations of life in the lower area, and their venue/food/servers worked out tremendously well.

This place had been around for a good while and is a staple of Brookline Boulevard. You really can't go wrong with anything. I tried something new, the hot sausage calzone. Flavor was great, tons of cheese. I wish it was chunks of sausage and not crumbled but still delicious. My husband at the chicken chu chu sandwich which comes with cheese, mushrooms, onions, and banana peppers. The chicken was grilled to perfection, so juicy!

Nice local bar with Italian roots. The atmosphere is causal and like any local bar that's been around for over 25 years, but their menu surprises you with more than bar food. While they do have wings, pizza, and burgers, they also have pasta and sea food and other higher quality meal options. I ordered the chicken parm sandwich with fries and my husband got the daily special of tortellini alfredo. I was so surprised to see the side of my sandwich. It was a huge chicken cutlet about the size of an 7in sub. It was breaded with melted parmesan on top and marinara sauce under the chicken. I would have really liked more sauce on my sandwich. Because it was so large, it got sort of dry and heavy the more I ate. The chicken was tender but had little seasoning to the breading to give it a bolder flavor. The fries that came on the side were nice and crispy, with salt seasoning. Overall a good experience with a wonderful staff. The food is reasonably priced based on how much you get. I'd probably just get a pasta dish next time because my husband's tortellini alfredo was delicious.

Some of the best food in the city. Prices are good and the quality is excellent. From the pizza to the zucchini (which is the best I've ever had ) to Louie's specials. You can't beat this place. The service is excellent, the waitress's are top notch!!

Tried to get a booth or table there at 5 pm June 21. Waitress or hostess was very rude when I said there are empty seats. She was very snippy and said can't you see they are reserved. After hunting for a parking spot for 20 minutes and then to be talked to like that we walked out. Not worth my time.

Hello fellow Yelpers!This place is a little gem! We were initially going to a restaurant down the street but they were closed and we are glad they were because we ended up stumbling into this place! There were three of us plus a 2.5 month old infant. When we entered the front door, not going to lie we thought it was the wrong place to be. You immediately enter into a bar and you see some gambling machines as well. So you can imagine we were going to leave since it just didn't seem child appropriate, however the nicest server Rachel asked us if we needed anything and let us know there was actually a back dining area! Turns out the place is much larger on the inside than it looks, there's even a side entrance straight to the dining area, heck they even host parties/banquets. It's a charming little dive bar type looking place and even has a billiards table. The owner was there with his friends in the back enjoying his time with his friends, it was fun hearing them enjoy themselves speaking Italian!That leads us to the food, most everything is hand made and it shows! The provolone cheese wheel is deliciously hand battered and made with fresh cheese. The chicken chu chu is hand pounded chicken marinated with hand made focaccia bread (it's huge! Plus their own signature, not sure if they made up the name). The chicken parmigiana hand breaded with hand made breading that isn't obnoxiously thick and the spaghetti was cooked Al dente to perfection! Pretty much all of the food was delicious which is why we call this a hidden gem! The prices are very reasonable and Rachel was such a wonderful and attentive server. She was the only one yet kept us topped off and checked in on us at a regular clip. The only things we thought could improve are a little less salt in the wedding soup and there's this odd "pass through" surcharge that is an extra 4% on top of the bill that comes from using your credit card, I guess because of the clover system they use? Just FYI for everyone. It's a bit slower here, but this is the type of establishment where they know you're name and the locals come to, so it's got such a unique charm to it. We highly recommend giving moonlite a try! They even have parking in the back so you don't have to pay for the Brookline street parking.Thank you so much for reading, stay safe and well out there. Thanks for being...YOU! :)

I love this place! They have very filling salads with lots of toppings. The zucchini boats can feed a whole family for such a cheap price. The wedding soup is flavorful and they are generous on the oyster crackers. Although I would love regular crackers for it. They are very family friendly and has lots of seating place. It is a bit dark but it is very homey. They work at their pace but still good service.

Home style bar. Friendly place for families separate bar that is equally nice, but separate. Prices are fair considering today's market place and the food and service is good. It's a solid place.

I'm tempted to gate keep on the Moonlite. Their bar food is unreal good at a reasonable price. Everyone who works there is so friendly and some days I think of moving to Brookeline just to be closer to it. Definitely your favorite neighborhood bar, with the best food!