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IrishBubbaLiberal

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Sun Apr 27, 2025, 12:55 PM Apr 27

Menu Golden Boy Pizza, North Beach SF. , as close to perfect pizza in entire USA 😍 [View all]

Mesmerizing memories.

Of decades past 😍😎😍👍🏼

By the slice heaven 😋
I usually got the COMBO
OR Clam and Garlic

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Golden Boy Pizza
In North Beach San Francisco


https://www.goldenboypizza.com/

By the slice
COMBO
Pepperoni, Sausage, Onion, Mushroom, Zucchini, Tomato

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Peter Sodini's vision of the perfect pizza is the concept of Golden Boy Pizza. The perfect pizza would consist of a fresh baked, delicious, foccacia with pizza topping. In 1978, at the age of 19, Peter took his vision of the perfect pizza to the next level. He opened up the first Golden Boy Pizza on Green Street in San Francisco’s North Beach.

Golden Boy Pizza quickly became the "place to be" in North Beach. Golden Boy Pizza was so popular it expanded to seven restaurants throughout the city and Berkeley. The business even started selling wholesale to delicatessens and schools. Peter Sodini went on to purchase Green Valley Restaurant and now owns Sodini’s Bertoluccis in South San Francisco. Peter eventually scaled down his operation, but kept his flagship Golden Boy Pizza in San Francisco’s North Beach.

Golden Boy Pizza has continued to thrive in San Francisco’s North Beach. It is now managed and operated by Peter’s sons. The legacy of Golden Boy Pizza continues, with the next generation having recently expanded once again to the Sunset San Francisco!

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https://www.kqed.org/arts/13959808/golden-boy-pizza-north-beach-sf-late-night

Golden Boy Pizza Is Where You Want To End Your Night

The Midnight Diners is a regular collaboration between KQED food editor Luke Tsai and graphic novelist Thien Pham. Follow them each week as they explore the hot pot restaurants, taco carts and 24-hour casino buffets that make up the Bay Area’s after-hours dining scene.

If you’re a lifelong San Franciscan, chances are you’ve grabbed a slice at Golden Boy Pizza.

Or to be more specific: If your misspent youth involved hanging around the vicinity of North Beach late at night, you’ve probably burned the roof of your mouth scarfing down a Golden Boy clam-and-garlic slice while standing on the sidewalk well past midnight.

Ever since Golden Boy’s original Green Street location opened in 1978, the pizzeria has been an indelible fixture of San Francisco’s late-night scene. Pre-pandemic, and for the bulk of its 40-plus-year heyday as an after-hours hangout, Golden Boy was open past 2 a.m. on the weekend, making it the ideal place to hit up after a punk show or a reckless night of bar-hopping. Back then, the restaurant itself doubled as a neighborhood dive bar of sorts, with pizza eaters squeezing shoulder-to-shoulder at the counter to enjoy pitchers of cold Stella and a thrash metal–heavy playlist with their meal.

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I'm a native San Franciscan and have never heard of this parlor! kimbutgar Apr 27 #1
About the first pizza by the slice place I went to starting in the 1970s IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 27 #4
Used to hang out in the late seventies at the Holy City Zoo and Robin Williams used to hang out there all the kimbutgar Apr 27 #5
Yup, me too IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 27 #10
Golden Boy hours have changed too... IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 27 #8
A 'few' decades ago....that was me 😎😍 IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 27 #2
"If your misspent youth involved hanging around the vicinity of North Beach late at night," AZJonnie Apr 27 #7
Hope I get a chance to Traildogbob Apr 27 #3
Somehow I have failed over n over to get into SWAN's Oyster Depot IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 27 #6
I only got to walk by and look Traildogbob Apr 27 #9
Cioppino. I have always been on a quest for The best IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 27 #14
Thank you as well Traildogbob Apr 27 #15
Apple Hill, off Hwy 50...vineyards, wineries, apple orchards IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 27 #16
There were Traildogbob Apr 27 #18
Apple paradise. Traildogbob Apr 27 #20
FYI... near Reno, Carson City.......Virginia City questionable place now IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 27 #17
😱😱😱😱 Traildogbob Apr 27 #19
Swan's Oyster is THE BEST, if you can wait in line awhile IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 27 #11
Wow, thank you so much Traildogbob Apr 27 #12
Hard to beat Casey's gas station pizza 🍕. Emile Apr 27 #13
Pi r square LudwigPastorius Apr 27 #21
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