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Boston restaurant Capo launches bottomless pasta Wednesdays for $32

Capo's $32 bottomless pasta Wednesdays turned South Boston into a midweek carb stop, with unlimited spaghetti, ravioli and rigatoni from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Nina Kowalski··2 min read
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Boston restaurant Capo launches bottomless pasta Wednesdays for $32
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Capo turned a Wednesday night into a full pasta destination with a $32 bottomless deal that leaned hard into comfort food and value. The South Boston restaurant served unlimited bowls of spaghetti, ravioli and rigatoni from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., dine-in only, making the special feel less like a quick bite and more like a sit-down outing built around a serious appetite.

The offer covered every house-made pasta dish except lobster gnocchi, which came with an extra fee. That detail mattered because Capo has built its menu around scratch-made pasta, with Boston listings saying the kitchen generally kept about 10 to 12 pasta varieties in rotation at a time, all built with homemade noodles and sauces. For diners, the pitch was simple: bring a big appetite, settle in, and treat the bowl count as the point.

Capo’s own events calendar showed that Bottomless Pasta Wednesdays were part of a larger weekly rhythm, not a one-off stunt. Trivia nights filled Tuesdays, Wednesday night comedy dinner shows shared the midweek slot, Thursday brought jazz dinners, and live music ran on Fridays and Saturdays, with Sinatra Sunday rounding out the lineup. That schedule gave the restaurant a supper-club feel, turning repeat visits into part of the business model rather than relying on a single headline dish.

The setting helped. Capo describes itself as serving pastas, pizza and other Italian standards in two 19th-century-inspired rooms with big, booming bars, a format that fits the kind of social dining Wednesday pasta invites. The restaurant opened in South Boston with a business certificate issued on January 15, 2016, and its footprint has grown into neighborhood familiarity. Chef Tony Susi was identified as the owner in a 2017 GBH interview, while Eric Aulenback has been listed as co-owner of Capo and other South Boston spots including Lincoln Tavern and Loco Taqueria and Oyster Bar.

Built from the shell of a former dollar store, Capo has turned a once-unlikely address at 443 Broadway, South Boston, MA 02127 into a recurring destination for diners looking for abundance without ceremony. Bottomless Pasta Wednesdays fit that identity neatly: a straightforward deal, a clear price, and enough noodles to make a slow night feel like an occasion.

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