By Merrill Shindler

Despite the many gastropubs along Second Street in Belmont Shore that keep the street lively and then some, there's a parallel universe of old-school restaurants, dominated by a fair number of red sauce Italian joints that serve the sort of (mostly) Southern Italian cooking so many of us long for, after many a meal of fancy risotto and arcane pastas.

Which isn't to say we long for a can of Chef Boyardee, but sometimes, a bowl of linguine carbonara just hits the spot. And a lot of that spot-hitting goes on in the crazy casual world of Papalucci's, on the western edge of Belmont Shore, just as the street goes from restaurant row to down-home residential.

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