Santarpio's

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Santarpio's is a popular restaurant in the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of East Boston. A landmark to locals and a destination for out-of-towners, the eatery is primarily known for its pizza, which it has served in the same location since 1933. Established in 1903 as a bakery, Frank Santarpio began selling pizza three decades later. ^[1]

Founded and still owned by the Santarpio family, the restaurant was one of the original pizzerias that opened to cater to Italian-Americans who had emigrated to cities in the northeastern United States. Besides several varieties of pizza, Santarpio's menu offers only two other items: Barbecued lamb and sausage.

For a long time, part of the restaurant's charm was that the atmosphere was unadorned, except by boxing posters, and the waiters were not overly helpful. Today that has moderated to some degree, and even the baby-food jars that once held crushed red pepper have been replaced by containers more suited to such things. ^[2]