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Northshore October 2025
Welcome to Italian comfort food season. Move over, salads and dainty shared plates. See you later, tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. This is the time of year for rib-sticking dishes with ballast and bombast. With temperatures plummeting, we wanted to know what some of our favorite Italian restaurants on the North Shore had planned for the chillier months. Short ribs and baked gnocchi at Il Ponte | Photographs by Elise Sinagra Il Ponte, Woburn At Il Ponte, which opened in 2022 in Woburn, chef Beni Kurti embraces the cooler weather with a series of dishes that are reminiscent of his home region of Umbria, in Italy. One signature
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