There is stiff competition in the North End neighborhood of Boston for Italian food. So, here is what you need to consider when looking for the Best Boston Restaurants to fill your Italian craving. Italian food is known for its great taste and it homey quality. Being able to walk into a strangers house and feel comforted by their food is an amazing experience, but being able to walk into a restaurant and have that feeling is incredible.

Italian food makes you feel good because it fills you up with good ole fashion carbs. Sure you gain 10 pounds in a week and constantly feel bloated but you dont care because it makes you feel good and happy. Everyone knows that pasta is the staple ingredient of Italian cuisine. Pasta may be an international phenomenon, but the Italians perfected it.

Pasta is traditionally made with unleavened wheat dough, egg and water. An easy recipe that yields such a nourishing and filling product is what made pasta a hit throughout history. Can you imagine living in a world where every day was a struggle to survive and then at last you find an easy meal that goes with pretty much anything and also doesnt break your back? You would be stoked. Thats exactly how the world felt then they discovered pasta and, lets face it, the feelings havent changed much. Moms love that they boil a pot of water, throw in a box of pasta and have a meal.

Pasta can come in a variety of shapes, colors and sizes, especially at the Best Boston Restaurants. It can be long or short, thin or fat, cylindrical or flat. Pasta can be green, red or white; baked, boiled or fried. In other words there is an endless amount of uses for pasta. Hell, kids can even use it to make art projects; who doesnt love a macaroni heart or necklace?

This brings me to another point; pasta is the perfect bomb shelter food. When stocking up your bomb shelter food supply, pasta should be your main ingredient. A regular box of it can retail for about two dollars and can feed about 4 people. Also it can last for several years. So while you are sitting in your basement waiting for the nuclear smoke to clear at least you will be eating hearty food down in the dark.

Now, you may think it is silly to talk about this at such length, but it is vital part of Italian cooking. Take a second and think of every Italian dish you know. Can you think of a single one that does not include some form of pasta? Thats right, there are very few. Thats why when determining a restaurant worthy of your Italian taste buds; pasta is the first factor you have to consider. I am more partial to restaurants that make theirs in house; it tends to be fresher and mix well with the restaurants sauce as well. Plus what respectable Italian restaurant does not make their own?

So when looking for the Best Boston Restaurants for Italian cuisine consider the pasta and all will be right in this world!