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“This is definitely a multi-experience restaurant. You can sit at the bar, you can sit downstairs in the dining room. Or you can come upstairs where it’s 21 plus, the ceiling actually opens up so you’re enjoying your steak and your pasta with a view of the stars. It’s amazing.”

I have a cosmic connection to the North End my parents went on their first date here at a place called felicies but since that time the North End has changed there’s less chicken Palm less checkered tablecloths more authentic Italian cuisine and prettier dining rooms but the North End has never seen

Anything like the new Umbria on Handover Street ombre is a region of Italy known for everything from New Earth which is about truffles it’s about wild mushroom it’s everything from new that type of Cuisine Frank de pasqui lives in the North End he’s got a pasta shop he’s got a gelato store a bunch of really great

Restaurants I mean he is The Unofficial maybe the official mayor of the North End there’s no greater Inner City Community than the northa Boston it’s the greatest Italian Community probably in the country and this is the place where all the deals are closed this is definitely a multi-experience restaurant

I mean you can sit at the bar you can sit downstairs in the dining room or you can come upstairs where it’s 21 plus the ceiling actually opens up so you’re enjoying your steak and your pasta with a view of the Stars it’s amazing the

Place was a dream I wanted to look like a villa in Umbria and I wanted to see Stone I wanted to see iron doors I wanted to bring the outside inside and I think we accomplished that dream this Tower is my Seafood dreams come true this is an entire Lobster a

Gigantic Crab Claw a half a dozen shrimp 18 oysters and six little necks now I’m not going to kid you it’s big bucks but I think it’s worth it as soon as it’s brought to the table you see all the heads start to turn around and before

You know it it’s not one person ordering the tower it’s maybe multiple people ordering the tower I’m not a fan of the giant meatball because I think it doesn’t cook properly at umbrea they go the other way with it they have Steakhouse meatball bites these are small they are fried and

They cook just absolutely perfectly and these come with three different sauces they’ve got a truffle aoli a bordes and my favorite the spicy Pomodoro it’s a fried meat ball and we do it in extra virgin olive oil just gives you that great great taste and that great great

Finish in your mouth and you say wow I like to have a lot of them so we made manyi bites out of them so you can have a lot of them this is tuna Crudo it’s a yellow fin tuna it’s got some salmon row and a watermelon Citrus ponzoo it is the

Perfect way to warm up your taste buds before a nice juicy steak this is the cowboy ribey so it’s a very flavorful very tender steak then they age it for 35 days making it even more tender it comes with three different kinds of sea salt and a choice

Of sauces but honestly this steak is so good I don’t think you’re going to even need the sauce most of our steaks are age from the filet all the way to Porter House to the ribeye I like the ribey because it has a little bit of fat and

You put it in those nice hot ovens and it melt B down and you know you get that nice shower on the top and then when you open it up it’s got that beautiful rosy red look so it’s been a big seller mashed potatoes always go good with a

Steak but Lobster mashed potatoes go even better with the steak this one is jammed with lobster including a little piece of lobster right on top this is a papelli ragu the pasta comes from Frank shop nearby so it’s as good as you’re going to get it’s a wide

Noodle so it could really stand up to all this flavor and there is a lot of flavor you’ve got braed lamb Beef Pork cheese red sauce to me this dish is what the North End is all about our papadilla vagu is a must over here it’s earthy

It’s umbrian our papad Deli is made in house and you put that Ru with the w Bo I think it’s a perfect marriage you hardcore Italian seafood lovers are going to want to get the chapeno this dish has absolutely everything half a lobster shrimp swordfish monkfish calamari Wellfleet

Clams muscles Pino Tomatoes fish F and brushetta chapeno is my wife’s favorite dish and she begged me to put it on the menu I think it’s the best dish in the whole not it’s just fantastic if you’re not going to Mike’s or Modern Pastry for dessert you’ve got

To try their signature chocolate chip Skillet cookie this is chocolate chip cookie dough vanilla gelato salted caramel and strucel crumbs it’s served in the skillet and pairs perfectly with an espresso Martini it’s how bigest Sal it’s a ble of hot and cold it’s a dessert that you have to

Try look I love the Boston steakhouses I go all the time but I got to admit they can start to feel a little bit the same so if you want to mix up the food in front get a steak but also get sushi and pasta and a view of the stars in

Boston’s oldest greatest neighborhood got to try Umbria on Handover Street in the North End uh

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