Boston Chefs

Kids of the 70s and 80s remember the era when pizza night was the ultimate in good times. Those vibes are back in full force for everyone to enjoy in the Fenway at James Beard Award-nominated chef Tiffani Faison’s Tenderoni’s.

Located at the corner of Boylston and Kilmarnock, right down the road from her flagship Sweet Cheeks Q, the “Italian-American-ish” concept is a bigger, bolder (and true to the Fenway, a little more raucous) version of Tenderoni’s in the High Street Market downtown, with 140 seats, two bars, and a takeout window for pizza slices, ice cream and other to-go goodies.

The menu features Tenderoni’s signature 2.5-foot-long pizzas, which are loaded with cheese and crisped up to perfection with lots of chewy, crunchy crust, plus big, crisp salads, tasty apps, “grindahs” and “dinnahs” featuring local seafood and fresh pastas, and you can finish strong with a decadent dessert lineup including soft-serve ice creams of all stripes with customizable cones and sundaes.

The drinks list is a fun and funky mix of reimagined classics, rotating specialties and some all-new concoctions with everything from classic orange soda and root beer to a bottled and canned cocktail program, to shareable large format drinks. There’s also a curated selection of perfectly pizza-friendly wines available by the glass and bottle, and a bevy of ice cold regional beers.

The space was collaboratively designed by Faison and Cambridge’s PCA Architecture to play up the feel of a 70s and 80s-era disco roller rink — and basically take you down to Funkytown — with a real Lisa-Frank-meets-Trapper-Keeper vibe of bold animal prints, LED neon light fixtures, curving stripes and period colors, plus three hand-built mirror disco balls from Omega National, the last American manufacturer of the iconic fixtures.