Best Boston Restaurants
 

There are almost one million restaurants in the United States, garnering $511 billion dollars a year in direct sales, and employing 12.5 million people.

Against such wide variety of competition and startling odds, the community of 90 or so restaurant operators in the North end of Boston, Massachusetts, has for years remained world renowned: but then, the North End has long been home to legends of the long shot; from the moment Paul Revere began his ride to Lexington, to the influx of almost 14,000 destitute irish immigrants fleeing the 'Great Irish Famine' in 1847, and the subsequent wars between organized crime families that sprang from the highly diverse Irish, Jewish, and Italian ethnicities crowded into quarters less than one square mile in size, the North end has always overcome seemingly impossible obstacles. Thankfully, the North end is now mainly known for its wide and delicious selections of authentic italian food and pasta, its concentration of old-world italian families (italian is still the primary language spoken), and its intensely rich cultural value, rather than its sometimes difficult, other times shining past.

The North end is the reason that Boston, Massachusetts is called "the most European city in America."
Tourism for much of boston is concentrated in the area, which is also a great location for couples seeking a romantic getaway, as well as gourmet connoisseurs looking to gain a taste of the best Bacco Ristorante for themselves. With so much tourism in such a small area, the restaurants serving authentic italian food not only know that they are fortunate to be located where they are, but also that competition is extremely fierce, and if they let their service, the ambiance of their dining rooms, or the quality of their menus fall into abandon, their fate as restaurateurs will be the same. This, and the love of cooking and service that many of the owners and employers have inherited from the generations before them - the hard-won culinary skills built over centuries in the mountains of Valle D'Aosta, the plains of Tuscany, and the shores of Sicily and Sardinia - is what keeps the North end diet alive and irresistible.

Boston's North End is home to several dozen of
the world's finest authentic italian restaurants.