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 GOURMET GREATNESS
Pizzeria Regina is THE North End pizza shop to get awesome thin crust Neapolitan pizza cooked in a piping hot brick oven. Tucked back into the neighborhood, the parlor is jammed with customers seeking superior, crispy pies.
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Pizzeria Regina is a North End institution covered in neighborhood photos and celebrity guest autographs on the butter colored walls. The cozy, crowded shop is crammed full of warn wooden booths, with a tiny bar up front and pizza boxes piled high in every inch of free space. |
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Incredible Neapolitan pizza is the only menu item, made from a 75-year-old recipe in a piping hot brick oven. |
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Phantom started with a classic margherita pie that joined melted mozzerrella, pecorino romano, spicy sauce, and fresh basil in perfect pizza fusion. The incredibly light, thin crust was doughy with superior crunchy and a few puffed-up bubbles, plus an oven-browned edge. The gloriously greasy Quattro Formaggio melded four gooey cheeses into a nutty, salty, garlicky masterpiece pizza. |
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The next round included St. Anthony’s Pizza with a creamy, garlicky white sauce smothering hunks of sausage and veggies, finished with slivered basil. The thicker three-pound Giambotta was bombarded with tempting toppings like bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, pepperoni, and sausage crumbles so you could barely see the crust. |
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Regina doesn’t do dessert, but you can’t walk two feet in the North End without tripping over a cannoli. |
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Pies come in two sizes: the 10” small or the 16” large. Both are even better topped with spicy oregano oil, the way real Italians eat pizza. |
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Servers were sassy but grew on the Caped Critic somewhere between slamming down the pizza and sitting down to chew the fat. |
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Cleanliness is fine for an old school pizza parlor, where the wear and tear only adds charm. |
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Regina’s authentic Italian pizza is worth the high prices: $10 for a small and $17 for a large. |
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Pizzeria Regina has satellite locations like Faneuil Hall and the Burlington Mall, but the original real deal is hidden on Thacher Street in the North End. |
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Review Date:
3/31/2007 |
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