Il Pastificio

The women behind the counter is beyond polite and enthusiastic. Our cake came out beautiful and was delicious! Can’t rave enough about it

I’ve lived next to this guy since I was a wee toddler.
Tony (the owner) and my father are close friends, and every now and then we buy some pastries or other Italian goods.
Let me tell you now, YOU WILL get the urge to come back for more, the pastries are always made fresh and are to DIE FOR!
They make cakes for all occasions, weddings, birthday parties, graduations, and are always made-​to-​order.
The gelato in the summer is thick and creamy and is fairly inexpensive.
Overall, this place is just awesome.
No wonder why it’s been in business forever, the customers here are loyal and stop by all the time for their pasta and so on.

Still as amazing as ever.
New additions to note: new flavors for biscotti like lemon cranberry and other magical things.
Still love the amazing pasta, especially the spicy fusilli which is uh-​may-​zing.
Also gnocchi.
Tony and his daughter Sandra are the best. They pay attention to detail and take pride in using quality ingredients and they are just awesome.
Big plus recently. I ordered a rum cake for a birthday and all I said was «chocolate lovers».
Let me tell you, it was one of the lost beautiful cakes I had ever seen.
There was an actual chocolate box that opened on top of the cake and it was filled with chocolate pearls inside.
That alone, was worth three times the price of the cake, seriously.
Love this place! Did I say that already?

I love this place! Pasta is perfection. Prices are reasonable. Italian bakery items are authentic. Don’t go here for a cupcake — go here for a cannoli. This family owned business knows what they are doing and they do it well.

This is an wonderful family business that I have honored for almost 10 years without a single disappointment or pause. My last name ends in vowels… this is good pasta and pastry at a real price point.

This bakery makes the best Italian pastries and there Italian rum cakes are to die for

I ordered a cake for my sister-​in-​laws 25^th Anniversary party. Everyone was blown away by how beautiful the cake looked and not to mention how delicious it tasted! I would recommend il Pastaficio to anyone! My daughter is getting married and we are planning on getting her wedding cake here too, we would have it any other way! Bravo to the staff as well! They were very accommodating and got my vision down perfectly! Two thumbs way up!!!

Successful food business plan:
1. Make good food
2. Treat customers nicely
Follow these simple rules and you will have repeat customers.
This place practiced neither of these tenets and I will not be returning. Guy behind counter didn’t even say hi and just stared at me when I greeted him.
Also, pignola cookie was on the stale side… nothing more delicious than some old nuts. Also, walnut cookie was decent, but when the guy gave me 10 nickels for my change, I quickly ignored any redeeming qualities that cookie may have had.

I have been to il Pastificio about half a dozen times now. The pastries are fantastic. I love the rotolo di noci, which is not too sweet and rich with nuts. The pasta is also very good, and so much more affordable than what the new gourmet producers (like «nella pasta») are producing. This last visit I tried the mozarella, which is made right there. It was incredibly delicious, soft and smooth. They are not licensed as a coffee shop, so you have to get everything to go. They make a perfect espresso though, and I always get one.

I went in to get 5 pounds of pasta. The woman there was so inexcusably rude I almost laughed in her face. And the pasta was only mediocre, especially for the exorbitant prices they charge.

Fantastic! Your search for dynamite pastry is over.

Hey. If the sign on your door says open and your hours say you close at six… then why am I tugging on a locked door at 5:42 on a Wednesday? What a quick way to lose good business.

Place is great. The home made pasta sauce is a bit more expensive than super markets, but the quality is FAR superior than Ragu. The Cannolli there is also amazing as well.

Everyone has their personal gripe about the North End: too crowded, too car hateful, too yuppified, too touristy, too expensive, too guido-​y, too Paul Reverey, blah blah blah.
Skip the hassle the next time and create your own North End ambiance in the comfort of your own home, blah blah blah: check this place out instead. It’s a pasta shop/​bakery/​small Italian grocery. The fresh pasta prices are slightly more expensive than your standard freezer case-​variety Buotoni, but here’s the catch: Il P’s pasta uses high-​quality semolina flour, so the pasta is dense. You open a package of Contadina fresh tortellini and it’s easy to eat three-​quarters of the whole thing. You’d have to be nuttier than Christopher Moltisanti to do that with this stuff. For real. The leftovers last for a couple of lunches.
My fave sauce so far is the boscaiola – smoky, salty tomatoey goodness. They sell cookies pies, cakes and assorted decadent pastries too. Even Nutella, but disappointingly enough, it’s the Canadian version, not the far superior Italian version. Oh well.
Be forewarned that the guy who runs the place will glare at you like you’re going to shoplift something. It’s nothing personal. At least, I don’t think so.