2 AT THE BAR

If you live in or are visiting Boston, and are here on a summer weekend in August, it’s mandatory that you experience a Feast in the North End, Boston’s Little Italy. This weekend was the opener, Festa di Sant Agrippina.

The North End is Boston’s Italian neighborhood, a few tightly packed blocks full of restaurants, cafes, shops and a lot of local color. On Feast weekends it’s wall to wall people, lights, live music, old fashioned carnival games and FOOD. Have some raw bar or sausage with peppers and onions at one of the street stalls or have dinner in one of the many restaurants that line the streets and then after dinner, take a stroll, have a cannoli and enjoy the street scene.

At the beginning of each Feast, the Madonna is paraded through the streets. She is slowly covered in cash which goes to the Church.

Music – every weekend has a free show. People dance in the street and the old timers pull up lawn chairs or hang out their windows to enjoy the music! Some people (I’m not saying who!) have been known to get up on the stage to sing Disco Inferno with the original group, The Trampps!

A little raw bar anyone?

Boston’s Finest!

The street scene

North End Feasts – one of the many reasons Boston is a “wicked awesome” city!

For us, going to the North End on Saturday night in August is a ritual. For those of you who have never been, Boston’s North End is all Italian, like being in a neighborhood in some Italian city with lots of tourists! In August, on weekends, the North End is all about feasts. There’s one every weekend. There’s lots of energy, people, lines outside restaurants, cafes, beach chairs set up in the street with people taking in the scene and always a carnival on some chosen street. It’s hard to pick a restaurant and to get into the good ones you need a reservation. We’ve made a couple of reservations and decide to try something new.

Tonight we’re four at a table instead of 2 at the bar! We’re with a couple of our pals, John and Malu and we’re going to Gennaro in North Square. We’re seated upstairs in a comfy banquette overlooking the square. It’s quiet so we can have a conversation. We haven’t seen our friends in a while. Malu just spent a month at Kripalu and is now a certified yoga instructor.

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