Go in. Expect no frills whatsoever. Act like you’re ordering from the Soup Nazi. Mind your business. Have a carafe of red wine (you’re going to love it). Observe with fascination the movie-character-like personalities of the people working the grill and behind the bar, sitting AT the bar, and serving your food. Continue to mind your business. And once the amazingly tasty and crusty pizza is set down in front of you, be transported to heaven with every bite. Yep, this is your Santarpio’s experience. And you’ll be back to relive it over and over.

This is where you go to get pizza and only pizza. And some consider it Boston’s best (even New Yorkers like it!), which is why people brave the crowds and, sometimes, the long wait for their pie. But when your thin-crust pizza is cooked to your specifications (doughy, medium, or burnt), would you have it any other way?

T. Anthony’s is a popular, busy spot in Boston University’s West Campus, but don’t let that deter you. Plenty of nearby non-college kids in the know sneak in, too, to enjoy one of the best thin-crust pizzas in the area. With slices just soft enough to fold in half (like your New Yorker grandpa used to do), you’ll be pleasantly surprised at this affordable and super-tasty pie.

A finer pie for those Bostonians who stumble out of their Beacon Hill brownstones on a Sunday at noon. Why not soak up last night’s martinis with a slice of breaded veal pizza from The Upper Crust?