Owners Tom and Mary Prince are not only gracious hosts, they're also obsessive about their food: beautifully executed Italian fare that features light-as-air Neapolitan-style pizza crusts, hand-cut tagliatelle and pappardelle, and homemade sauces (we're talking "roast-our-own-tomatoes" homemade). The Italian-heavy wine list and the servers well-informed chatter make you feeljust for a minutethat you're closer to Firenze than Framingham. RUNNER-UP: Blue Ginger
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