The interior of the restaurant consists of one room, with three rows of tables that extend from the front window area to the back where the kitchen is, and the tables can easily be moved around for bigger groups while the front tables by the windows are probably the most coveted, as you can get to do some always-fascinating people watching along Salem Street, including seeing everyone from older Italian families to young professionals who have moved into the North End to construction workers, college students, and tourists who might have hopped off the Freedom Trail, which is only a block away.Īs is the case with some of the old-fashioned Italian-American restaurants in the North End, don't come here expecting to find modern takes on Italian food or cocktails that have cute (and/or weird) names instead, you'll be able to choose from a number of excellent versions of well-established pasta, meat, and seafood options that generally come in large portions at reasonable prices.
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The cramped and narrow Salem Street-which parallels Hanover Street-is full of such places, including Al Dente, which looks about as plain and simple as you can get. The North End has a mix of large and small restaurants, but once you get off Hanover Street (which tends to be considered the main drag), you'll find more in the way of cozy, intimate spots than multi-room eateries. Boston's North End still has some places like this, including a local favorite called Al Dente that has been around a long time and remains a low-key place that, sure, tourists and businesspeople may find along the way, but which tends to be more of the type of restaurant that you go to for a leisurely meal on a Saturday night with friends and family. This tends to be especially true when it comes to Italian restaurants, as there really is nothing like a big plate of pasta served by a person calling you "honey" while lounge music (or no music) plays in the background. As the city of Boston becomes more and more of a world-class destination spot when it comes to food, it seems that so many of the new restaurants opening up focus on upscale this and inventive that, which is all well and good, but for some people (or more than some), it's all about simplicity-be it familiar dishes, servers who have been at a place forever, or atmosphere that won't win any design awards but feels like home.
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