"The Most Authentic Italian Restaurant"

Antico Forno is billed as "The Most Authentic Italian Restaurant," and we're hard pressed to argue. This mainstay in Boston's North End manages a cozy mom-and-pop atmosphere with world-class traditional cuisine. Entrees like Saltimbocca di Pollo and Linguine al Frutti di Mare hearken back to the old country, but Antico Forno is best known for its brick-oven pizzas piled high with house-made Italian sausages and mozzarella.

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Built by Naples. Fired in Boston.

In 1996, a master mason traveled from Naples to Boston with one purpose: to build a real Italian brick oven. Not a replica. Not a modern interpretation. The real thing.

He constructed Antico Forno’s oven by hand using old-world techniques passed down for generations. The bricks were set to channel flames from left to right, creating a rolling heat that cooks pizza the way it has been done in Southern Italy for centuries. The oven reaches nearly 1,000 degrees, hot enough to blister dough in seconds, seal in flavor, and create the char, chew, and texture that can’t be faked.

Mixed into the oven’s foundation is volcanic ash from Italy, a small but intentional detail that affects how heat is retained and radiated. It is part engineering, part tradition, part obsession. The result is an oven that cooks evenly, fiercely, and beautifully, pizza with a soul.

That oven has been burning in the North End ever since. Every pizza that comes out of it carries a direct line back to Naples, just filtered through Boston brick and time.

Perfecting Neapolitan Wood-Fired Pizza in Boston’s Historic North End for Over 30 Years

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"The Most Authentic Italian Restaurant"

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