Restaurant jobs near you in Boston
Kitchens and dining rooms from Hanover Street to the Seaport, and out along the neighborhood main streets. Verify once with a free Work Passport and say yes to shifts on your side of the city.
Covers: North End, Chinatown, Back Bay, Seaport District, Fenway, South End, Faneuil Hall.
Openings near Boston
Pick the kind of work you want.
Example openings, written by AI for Boston to show the kind of work nearby. The employers are invented.
See live openings on PassportHow it works
One Passport, verified once, for every job near Boston.
-
Step 1: Build your Passport
Answer a few questions, scan your ID and take a selfie, in a short chat on your phone.
-
Step 2: Set your days
Tell CleoHR when you’re free. Employers near Boston who need those shifts can ask you.
-
Step 3: Say yes, scan in, start
Pick the shifts that fit. Scan the QR code at the door to check in. No paperwork.
Where Boston’s kitchens cluster
Boston’s restaurants cluster in a ring around downtown. The North End’s Italian restaurants and cafés line Hanover Street and Salem Street, Chinatown’s kitchens run along Beach Street and the streets around it, and Quincy Market at Faneuil Hall is a hall of food counters. Back Bay has restaurants and hotel dining along Boylston Street and Newbury Street.
The Seaport District’s waterfront restaurants and hotels sit beside the convention center, Fenway’s Boylston Street and Kenmore Square fill up around Fenway Park, and the South End’s Tremont Street has neighborhood dining rooms. Further out, the neighborhoods have eating streets of their own, such as Dorchester Avenue, Centre Street in Jamaica Plain and Meridian Street in East Boston.
Hotel kitchens, food halls and neighborhood dining rooms all need cooks, dishwashers, servers, bussers and hosts. The Orange Line stops at Chinatown, the Green Line at Copley and Kenmore, the Silver Line at Courthouse and World Trade Center, and Haymarket is a short walk from the North End.
Getting around
- Orange and Green Lines: Haymarket, for the North End
- Orange Line: Chinatown, Tufts Medical Center
- Green Line: Copley, Hynes Convention Center, Kenmore
- Silver Line SL1, SL2 and SL3: Courthouse, World Trade Center
- Blue Line: Aquarium, Maverick
Where the work is
-
Italian restaurants and cafés
The North End, along Hanover Street and Salem Street.
-
Chinatown kitchens
Beach Street and the streets around it.
-
Hotel and waterfront dining
The Seaport District and Back Bay.
-
Neighborhood restaurants
Dorchester Avenue, Centre Street and Meridian Street.
Jobs by type in Boston
Restaurant jobs near Boston
Jobs near Boston
Questions people in Boston ask
Where in Boston are restaurant jobs concentrated?
Downtown and the neighborhoods around it: the North End, Chinatown, Back Bay, the Seaport and Fenway. Each neighborhood also has restaurant streets of its own, such as Dorchester Avenue and Centre Street in Jamaica Plain.
How do I get home from a late restaurant shift?
MBTA subway lines stop running overnight. If a closing shift could end late, look up the last train or bus to your stop before you agree to it.
Do I need a résumé to apply for jobs in Boston?
No. Your Work Passport takes its place. You verify who you are once, in a short chat on your phone, and employers near you see that it’s verified.
Is the Work Passport free?
Yes. Workers never pay. Employers cover the cost of hiring.
Are the openings on this page real?
They’re examples, written by AI for Boston to show the kind of work nearby, and their employers are invented. Live openings are on the Passport jobs board, where you apply with your Passport.
Who sees my information?
Employers see results, not documents: that a check passed, never your ID or the report itself, and never your home address. You share by link, can switch it off any time, and can delete your Passport whenever you want.
Verified once. Hired near Boston.
Build your free Work Passport now, and be ready when employers near Boston need people.