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South Shore Living Magazine

This elegant restaurant serves up delicious Northern Italian cuisine and some killer mid-week bargains. Every Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the restaurant hosts a special pasta night, with items like seafood scampi and chicken cacciatore ($10.95). Thursday is lobster night, and guests can choice from seven different lobster dishes ($16.95) like the savory lobster Rockerfeller, or the lobster risotto. All items also come with salad. 1167 Main Street, South Weymouth, (781) 335-5600, www.eccotrattoria.com

hiddenboston.com

The South Shore of Boston has a lot of Italian restaurants, but the vast majority of them feature Southern Italian cuisine, with few Northern Italian restaurants to be found. There is, however, a charming little Northern Italian restaurant situated in a rather plain-looking strip mall on busy Route 18 in Weymouth. But while it is easy to pass Ecco Trattoria without even knowing it is there, locals in Weymouth, Braintree, and other nearby towns have indeed discovered this wonderful dining spot, which could easily hold its own against some of the better upscale Italian restaurants in Boston proper. full article