When most Boston University students want pizza, they immediately think Dominos. But My Brother’s Place provides another option on campus.
The restaurant, located at 27 Buswell St. in the heart of South Campus, offers higher-quality pizza than many other restaurants, said employee Adrian Mara.
“Everybody likes our pizza,” he said. “We have a good recipe, and we never mix cheese. Some pizza places mix cheap cheese with good cheese. All of ours is real mozzarella.”
The restaurant’s pizzas might seem more authentic than those at chain restaurants, considering the restaurant’s seven employees are all from the same region of Italy.
The building itself was once a pharmacy and a breakfast restaurant before three Irish brothers established My Brother’s Place in 1984. The current owner, Elio Muradi, kept the name when he bought the restaurant in 2001, and the restaurant boasts the same friendly atmosphere and traditional family-like styles as it did when the brothers owned it.
“We are like a family here,” Mara said.
Mara said the employees maintain a friendly relationship with the college students that frequent it, and BU students said they appreciate the effort.
“It is right here, and it’s open late,” said School of Management freshman Ryan Hart, who lives on Buswell Street and goes to My Brother’s Place every couple weeks. “It’s awesome.”
For students who don’t live as close by, My Brother’s Place offers free delivery all day and is hoping to increase the number of customers who use the service.
Unlike most pizza places, which do at least 60 percent of their business through deliveries, Mara said, My Brother’s Place relies mostly on eat-ins and pick ups, with only 10 to 15 percent of business coming from deliveries.
Still, Mara appreciates the walk-in business students offer, though he said one downside of having such a large student customer base is the days when students get a little rowdy, like St. Patrick’s Day and Marathon Monday, which is the restaurant’s busiest day of the year.
“Even then, the students were respectful and ended their craziness within 15 minutes,” Mara said.
However, Mara did recognize one drawback to the restaurant’s dependence on college students, saying “it is like a ghost town” during summer and winter breaks.
My Brother’s Place, located at 27 Buswell St., is open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and from 11 a.m. to midnight Fridays and Saturdays.
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