Boston is well-known for its vibrant and ever-evolving culinary scene, with new chefs and new openings making headlines on the regular, but it’s the city’s oldest neighborhood, the North End, that is its most food-centric.

Settled in the 1630s, the single-square-mile neighborhood is a study of 5 centuries of architectural development, from the circa-1680 Paul Revere house on North Square (downtown Boston’s oldest building) to the four- and five-story turn-of-the-century tenement buildings.