2025 Centurion Award winner

Awarded against five published criteria, checked on public evidence.

Santarpio's Pizza

Best Pizza in Boston · MA

Restaurant · Boston, MA · Since 1903

The overview

East Boston's century-old pizza ritual

Santarpio's has been an East Boston institution since 1903, a no-frills room where the pizza comes thin and blistered and the barbecue — skewers of lamb, sausage, and steak tips grilled over an open flame — is very nearly as famous. Regulars come for both, washed down with a pitcher amid decades of neighborhood clamor.

Cash-oriented, gruff, and unchanged, Santarpio's is the kind of place Bostonians defend with religious fervor, a century-old pizzeria that has never chased a trend.

The award record

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2025 Centurion Award

Best Pizza in Boston Boston, MA · Awarded under the 2025 evaluation View the 2025 award →

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Location111 Chelsea St, Boston, MA 02128
In business since1903
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