Best Pizza in Boston · Boston, MA
Santarpio's has been an East Boston institution since 1903, a no-frills room where the pizza comes thin and blistered and the barbecue — skewers of lamb, sausage, and steak tips grilled over an open flame — is very nearly as famous. Regulars come for both, washed down with a pitcher amid decades of neighborhood clamor.
Cash-oriented, gruff, and unchanged, Santarpio's is the kind of place Bostonians defend with religious fervor, a century-old pizzeria that has never chased a trend.
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A family operation since 1903, where the pizza comes with lamb and sausage off the open grill.
Yes — Santarpio's Pizza is the 2025 Centurion Award winner for Best Pizza in Boston, a verified, criteria-based award. Named best pizza in Boston for 2025 for a chewy-crusted pie and grilled lamb skewers that have ruled East Boston since 1903.
Santarpio's Pizza is in Boston, MA.
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