Benvenuti to Boston's "Little Italy"!

When it comes to North End dining, the choices are extraordinarily diverse - from traditional Italian-American family-style cooking to some of the most authentic, refined Italian food to be found anywhere in Boston and beyond. 

The North End is home to more than 87 restaurants - sandwich shops, pizzerias, carryout kitchens, cozy family-run dining rooms, and elegant restaurants, rosticceria and caffes.  Nor is all the food Italian: there is carryout Chinese, Thai cuisine, New England seafood, and good old, wholesome "American" food to be found in almost every corner of Boston's North End.

Still, the North End remains most known for it's Italian restaurants. Which leads us to attempt to correct one common misnomer: there is no such thing as "Italian cuisine".  Why?  Because all Italian cooking is regional cooking.  From the Abruzzi region on the Adriatic coast, to Puglia in the heel, Sicily and Napoli, to the northern regions of Piedmont and Lombardy: Italian cuisine - like Italian wine - takes it uniqueness from the earth, from the herbs, the crops, even the livestock - and most of all - from unique family cooking traditions stretching back over many centuries.

So, when you peruse the many restaurant web sites of our Founding Members, relish in the diversity of their menu offerings, the unique talents of each chef, and the many special culinary pleasures that our big "Little Italy" offers its many dining guests.

Ci vediamo!