Scopa - Boston

Great atmosphere. Great service. Great food! We stopped here on a very hot Saturday afternoon. While the restaurant is small, they had the perfect table for 4! Our meals were delicious and the chef was awesome! If you're looking for something more authentic, defiantly stop by Scopa; you won't be disappointed!

Very nice restaurant. Service was exemplary, they gave us complimentary bread and olive oil. Burrata is very well prepared and worth a try. Pasta options are pretty good. We got bolognese and butternut ravioli.

Scopa is an intimate, handsome Italian restaurant serving up some decadent meals. Not a lot of seating, but we didn't have trouble getting in on a Sunday evening. Our waitress was very pleasant and prompt. She was very apologetic after spilling a little water on my menu and plate. We had the arancini, carbonara, and short ribs. The arancini was the weak link. It was almost overwhelmed by an almond extract type flavoring. Not sure where that came from maybe the breading? but they were just alright. The short ribs were incredibly tender. My boyfriend loved them. He thought the truffle gnocchi was, well, too truffle y, but he wasn't expecting much else (he loves short ribs, but not truffles, so). The carbonara was the best part some of the best carbonara I've had since visiting Europe. The egg was placed on top so you got to burst the yolk and mix it up with the noodles. Fun and absolutely delicious. Like all carbonara, it was VERY rich and as such it was hard to finish all of it. I guess the restaurant was a little more expensive than we were expecting (although we could have gotten pizzas those were practically steals). Still, Scopa was a great way to finish off a great vacation to Boston!

Absolutely divine pizza. We had the prosciutto fungi and the prosciutto fig pizza. Best four seats on the North End are at their windows.

DINNER REVIEW So we ended up at Scopa the same way many people end up at restaurants in the North End around dinner time on weekends...you head to the great place you heard about, see the line/hear how long the wait is, and then decide to roam about to find something that looks good and had a shorter wait. That evening, Scopa fit the bill. We went to put our name in (for a group of 3) and ended up waiting maybe 20 minutes. This place is tiny (maybe only 20 seats) so any short wait was surprising. What Scopa lakes it size it makes up for in coziness. You are sitting elbow to elbow with your fellow diners and the nice folks preparing your food are right there in the back of the dining room. The wood-fired oven makes me excited to order their pizza. They start you off with a warm flatbread with 3 different olive oils, one plain, one with parmesan, and another with red pepper flakes. Though the ingredients are simple and few in number, the tastes are distinct. This was a great way to start the meal. With the wood-fired oven calling our name from the kitchen, we knew we had to get a pizza to start so we got a classic Margherita pizza. It had the perfect balance of crispy crust in the middle and chewy/doughy around the perimeter of the pizza. Would 100% order again. For my entree, I had the Pollo Parmigiana (aka Chicken Parmesan). The chicken was very moist, especially for chicken breast, and I think I could have eaten 5 of them. The cheese ravioli they came with were just ok: not particularly vibrant in flavor, I wish they were a bit hotter in temperature, and I wish there were more than just 4. Don't expect the huge portions at Scopa that you'll find at some of the other Italian restaurants nearby. One could say the portion size is proportional to the size of the restaurant, in this case. Overall, a great meal and I would definitely recommend Scopa if you are wandering the North End and trying to decide where to eat. You might just get lucky and get seated quickly here.