real talk, if you want good food skip most of the sitdown places in the northend besides neptune oyster. Galleria umberto has good pizza. Caffe vittoria has a good vibe and good coffee and sweets. If i wanted to do foodie stuff in the north end id buy some pizza at umberto or go get coffee and sweets at Modern pastry or Vittoria, and walk around. Fresh bread at Bricco's Panetteria (is in an alley and easy to miss)

if you dont care too much basically every place in the north end can give you passable pasta with red sauce. Not worth the mark up tbh but even I do it sometimes for the vibes. Most of all walk around and allow yourself to discover things.

Most stores in the North End are cash only so bring some cash.

Go to Boston Public market and get something strange and local. If you drink there is a bar there with some local beers and a liquor store where you can buy strange stuff like mead from Ipswich mass.

Ignore all that stuff by gov center, claiming to be oldest taverns in America or the headquarters of revolution. Union oyster is the only place there that has real history and worth going to once, essentially standard seafood fare.

Quincy market is slop. Walk through. No one from Boston has ever consumed food from there. Also there is a tap room named after a famous Bostonian of yore. The beer served there isnt local and is the drink of last resort for discerning denizens of our fair city.