Boston — #64 in the City — Italian Salumeria

The Salty Pig

130 Dartmouth St Italian Salumeria $$

Salumi-and-pizza Back Bay favorite — beer and wine that punch.

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8.9
Food
8.7
Ambience
9.0
Value

About The Salty Pig

The Salty Pig sits in Back Bay, and the room reads exactly the way the Boston dining establishment expects a italian salumeria kitchen at this address to read — considered, particular, and exact about the things it cares about. Snacky Italian — go for the salumi board.

The cooking turns on signatures the Boston regulars order without looking at the menu: Salumi Board, Pizzas, and Cured Egg Yolk Pasta. The kitchen runs at the $$ register, with a wine programme that is either deep where the room is loud and tight where the room is quiet, and a service floor that has clearly worked at this register before.

For a solo dining dinner in Boston, this is one of the addresses you should already know about. Reservations skew easy; dress is smart casual. The averaged Food/Ambience/Value line sits at 8.9/10 — high enough to mean the room is doing more right than wrong, calibrated against the sharpest other tables in the city.

Why It's Perfect for Solo Dining

Snacky Italian — go for the salumi board. For a deeper read on this occasion across other cities, the Solo Dining guide is the canonical reference.

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