The Boston Globe just dropped a full pizza package called Slice City. Eight pieces went up together on October 6, 2026, and the tag page collects all of them in one place:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/tag/slice-city
What’s in it
- The main event: the Globe’s food critic spent months eating pizza around Greater Boston and picked 12 pies as essential eating, chasing the question of what the defining pies of the area are right now.
- A style guide that breaks down what separates a New York slice from New Haven apizza, from crust thickness to where the sauce goes.
- A home-baking piece on pan pizza, pitched at anyone who already bakes sourdough: “pizza is a walk in the park.”
- Two profiles: Andy Blau of Scrappie’s on Beacon Hill, who left Boston Beer Company and now makes pizza dough from leftover restaurant bread, and Nor’Easter Pizza Co., a Kingston truck firing artisanal pies at South Shore events.
- A trend story on why the city’s fine-dining chefs are opening pizza projects (“dough makes dough”).
- A spice blend called Pizza Tonight!, from Curio Spice Co. in North Cambridge, that makes whatever you sprinkle it on taste like a classic pie.
- A reader callout asking which pies the list missed. That’s the fun part, because everyone has a place they’ll go to war over.
Why it’s worth a read
Pizza arguments usually go to New York, New Haven, or Chicago, and Boston gets treated as a pass-through. Slice City takes the local scene seriously on its own terms. It covers sit-down restaurants, a food truck, a neighborhood shop, and your own oven, so there’s something here whether you’re planning a pizza crawl or just trying to get a better crust at home. Heads up: it’s the Globe, so some of the articles may sit behind the paywall.
The Boston connection
All of it is local, from Beacon Hill and North Cambridge out to Kingston on the South Shore, plus the city’s own chefs. For this blog, it lands right next to the pizza archive. Almost every pizza post here is homemade, so the style guide and the home-baking piece are relevant, and the list of 12 makes a good to-do list for the next time pizza night means going out instead of cooking.
My Recent Regina Visit
Nearly a century before Slice City, there was Regina Pizzeria. Regina has been in the North End since 1926 and is still the Boston pizza benchmark. The photo above is from my most recent stop, in early April 2026. It wasn’t the original. It was the Regina in the Burlington Mall food court, where I got two pepperoni slices. They were fine. It’s a perfectly decent mall slice, but it’s nowhere near what the North End location turns out, and that’s more a compliment to the original than a knock on the outpost. A proper post on the North End shop is still on the to-do list.
The full write-up includes the history of the Polcari family and a list of every Regina location: Regina Pizzeria, Burlington Mall: Fine, But Wait for the Original.
Where This Was
Regina Pizzeria, Burlington Mall food court, Burlington, MA — Google reviews.