Giacomo's Ristorante
Restaurants
Boston, 02113
About
Giacomo's is the Hanover Street restaurant with the line outside and the cash-only rule, and it keeps both on purpose. It opened at 355 Hanover in 1985 as a small dining room with a tiny kitchen and a short menu, and it still makes its pasta in-house and still serves two sauces invented there: the Giacomo, a lobster-based red sauce with a touch of béchamel cream, and the Fracomo, which combines the Giacomo with the kitchen's fra diavolo.
It suits hungry travelers who want a generous plate of seafood pasta in an old-school room and do not mind standing on the sidewalk to get it. There are no reservations for parties under ten, no cards are accepted, and the doors open at noon every day. Richard Travaglione, Jr., who took over in 2019, describes his job as keeping the place exactly as it has always worked.
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Boston, 02113
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Giacomo's Ristorante
About Giacomo's Ristorante
Giacomo's is the Hanover Street restaurant with the line outside and the cash-only rule, and it keeps both on purpose. It opened at 355 Hanover in 1985 as a small dining room with a tiny kitchen and a short menu, and it still makes its pasta in-house and still serves two sauces invented there: the Giacomo, a lobster-based red sauce with a touch of béchamel cream, and the Fracomo, which combines the Giacomo with the kitchen's fra diavolo.
It suits hungry travelers who want a generous plate of seafood pasta in an old-school room and do not mind standing on the sidewalk to get it. There are no reservations for parties under ten, no cards are accepted, and the doors open at noon every day. Richard Travaglione, Jr., who took over in 2019, describes his job as keeping the place exactly as it has always worked.