In search of a new favorite Italian spot? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top Italian spots around Boston, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of the best spots to meet your needs.

Spring is the top season of the year for consumer spending at restaurants across the Boston area, according to data on local business transactions from Womply, a provider of software and email marketing services for small businesses. Daily spending at Boston-area restaurants grew to $825,855 for the metro area in the spring of last year, 11% higher than the average for the rest of the year.