Santarpio's Pizza
About
Santarpio's is an East Boston pizzeria with a second trade written right on its sign: barbecue. The menu is short and fixed, with Italian cheese pizzas, a handful of house combinations, and skewers of lamb, steak tips or chicken and grilled sausages served with a hot cherry pepper and Italian bread.
It suits anyone who wants a casual, inexpensive meal built around pizza and grilled meat rather than a full sit-down menu, It sits on Chelsea Street in East Boston, the neighborhood that also holds Logan Airport, across the harbor from downtown.
The pizza
Every pie starts from Italian cheese, and toppings are the classic set: garlic, onions, peppers, mushrooms, olives, broccoli, anchovies, pepperoni, sausage, ground beef and chicken. House combinations include sausage and garlic, and The Works, which comes with or without anchovies. Any pizza can be ordered white, with no sauce, and the shrimp scampi and the chicken, broccoli and garlic pizzas come that way by default.
The barbecue
The other half of the menu is sold by the single skewer: lamb, steak tips or chicken tips, plus a sausage or a zesty lamb sausage. Each comes with a hot cherry pepper and fresh-baked Italian bread, and a garden salad with homemade vinaigrette is the one side on the menu.
What to drink
Drinks are simple: house Chablis or Burgundy by the glass or carafe, a short list of bottled wines, and familiar beers such as Sam Adams, Stella Artois, Heineken and Budweiser.
Two Santarpio's
This listing is the East Boston restaurant at 111 Chelsea Street. The second Santarpio's is at 71 Newbury Street on Route 1 in Peabody, north of the city, which is easy to confuse with Boston's Newbury Street in Back Bay. The website gives no transit directions; East Boston is on the MBTA Blue Line, so check a map for the closest station.
Sources: Santarpio's Pizza, menu. Checked September 27, 2026.
Contact Information
Boston, 02128
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Santarpio's Pizza
About Santarpio's Pizza
Santarpio's is an East Boston pizzeria with a second trade written right on its sign: barbecue. The menu is short and fixed, with Italian cheese pizzas, a handful of house combinations, and skewers of lamb, steak tips or chicken and grilled sausages served with a hot cherry pepper and Italian bread.
It suits anyone who wants a casual, inexpensive meal built around pizza and grilled meat rather than a full sit-down menu, It sits on Chelsea Street in East Boston, the neighborhood that also holds Logan Airport, across the harbor from downtown.
The pizza
Every pie starts from Italian cheese, and toppings are the classic set: garlic, onions, peppers, mushrooms, olives, broccoli, anchovies, pepperoni, sausage, ground beef and chicken. House combinations include sausage and garlic, and The Works, which comes with or without anchovies. Any pizza can be ordered white, with no sauce, and the shrimp scampi and the chicken, broccoli and garlic pizzas come that way by default.
The barbecue
The other half of the menu is sold by the single skewer: lamb, steak tips or chicken tips, plus a sausage or a zesty lamb sausage. Each comes with a hot cherry pepper and fresh-baked Italian bread, and a garden salad with homemade vinaigrette is the one side on the menu.
What to drink
Drinks are simple: house Chablis or Burgundy by the glass or carafe, a short list of bottled wines, and familiar beers such as Sam Adams, Stella Artois, Heineken and Budweiser.
Two Santarpio's
This listing is the East Boston restaurant at 111 Chelsea Street. The second Santarpio's is at 71 Newbury Street on Route 1 in Peabody, north of the city, which is easy to confuse with Boston's Newbury Street in Back Bay. The website gives no transit directions; East Boston is on the MBTA Blue Line, so check a map for the closest station.
Sources: Santarpio's Pizza, menu. Checked September 27, 2026.