Even when it’s not high season for all the various Saint-affiliated street feasts, visitors swarm the winding lanes of the red sauce-soaked North End for its Italian restaurants and quaint, historic streetscape.

You could easily eeny-meeny-miny-moe your way through a dinner date among the tourist droves, but below, we’ve made some thoughtful dinner, activity, and even overnight selections to keep your North End night from going south.