Baleia

Baleia is a Portuguese-inspired, seafood-forward restaurant that opened in March 2024 on the ground floor of the Troy Building, at the intersection of Boston's South End and South Boston. It is the work of Coda Restaurant Group, the team behind SRV, The Salty Pig, and Gufo, with chef Andrew Hebert (also executive chef at sister restaurant Gufo) leading the kitchen. The tapas-style, Mediterranean-coastal menu leans on seafood and traditional copper Cataplana cookware, paired with cocktails, bold wines, and a deliberately built low- and no-alcohol list. Its signature spirit-free drink is the "Tropical Amargo," an aperitif made with coconut-chai, orange, lime, pineapple, and coffee plus a spirit-free Campari-style amaro. The Boston Globe named Baleia among Boston's top mocktail destinations, calling it a "stylish new Portuguese restaurant" that "welcomes a cosmopolitan crowd eager to experiment with nonalcoholic delights." Coda's bar director John Benevides told WBUR in 2026 that non-alcoholic drinks now make up roughly 5% of the group's drink orders, a sharp year-over-year increase. The dining room is open for dinner Sunday through Thursday from 5 to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 5 to 10 p.m.