Northshore Magazine (Digital)

For 20 years, Northshore magazine’s experienced editors, creatives, writers, and photographers have captured the region with its award-winning prose and design. The magazine offers sophisticated service journalism coupled with stunning photography. We report on desirable towns and neighborhoods, places to hike and bike along the coast, which doctors are first-rate, and which restaurants, shops, spas, salons, and services are the Best of the North Shore.

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Where There’s Smoke • Texas-made smokers, a steady shipment of oak, and something the pitmaster calls “meat candy”—inside Smoke on the Water, Salisbury’s new craft barbecue destination.

Taste of Kowloon • At 9 Dragons, inside The Brook casino in Seabrook, neon signs, bamboo umbrellas, and Bruce Lee murals complement a menu worth a visit.

Bucolic Beauties • Two neighboring North Shore towns have spent generations guarding their open space and small-town traditions while quietly making room to evolve.

Peabody: The Hottest Zip Code in America • Last summer it was Beverly. This year the crown moves a few exits down Route 128.

Fall Flair • Warm up your wardrobe with these earthy tones.

Just Dandy • Create great style with a little help from these local men’s shops.

Celebrate the Season • Visit a local farm festival to celebrate autumn and the beauty of fall on the North Shore.

Sports for Everyone • Danvers-based InclYOUsion Sports offers inclusive, noncompetitive sports programs for all kids of all abilities.

northshore BONS EVENT 2026 • Northshore Magazine’s Best of the North Shore took over the Danversport waterfront on August 13, drawing 1,200 guests to a sold-out night honoring more than 250 winners across dining, retail, beauty, and services. Billy Costa and Jenny Johnson hosted, Soul of Boston played, and DJ Chris Roxx carried the dance floor to close. More than 40 vendors poured and plated their way through the evening.

Bringing Back the Bivalves • Massachusetts oyster reefs are functionally extinct. On piers from Newburyport to Gloucester, a small nonprofit is growing the shellfish that could help clean up North Shore waters.

It Takes Nerve • Dr. Drasko Simovic’s work at EMG Laboratory at the forefront of electrodiagnostics helps patients get answers.

Real Estate All-Stars • Ready to buy or sell a home on the North Shore?

A Sense of Place • The North Shore is a world of sailboats and seafood, beaches and witches. But a little digging reveals deeper layers of culture and character that seep across city limits and town boundaries like seawater into the sandy shore. Come with us to explore six regions that give the North Shore its nuanced sense of place.

The Marsh

The Granite Belt

Horse Country

The Uplands

The Neck

Salem Sound

Your Own Backyard, REDISCOVERED • For sixteen days this September, Essex Heritage’s Trails & Sails turns the landmarks you drive past every day into more than two hundred free things to do.

A COOKIE GROWS IN MEDFORD • SWEET BOTANICAL BAKES PRESSES EDIBLE FLOWERS INTO SHORTBREAD FOR A BEAUTIFUL SWEET TREAT.

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