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Forget Duck Boats and Freedom Trail tours – there’s a new kind of Boston tour in town.

Unlike many of Boston’s historical tours, this one cuts straight to the chase – no bullshit attached. Your tour guide? None other than Anthony Gesualdi, former co-owner of the now shuttered Davide restaurant in the North End. He may not describe himself as “politically correct” but we’d gather to say he’s certainly an honest optimist.

“When one door closes hopefully another one opens,” Gesualdi tells BostInno when explaining his decision to leave the restaurant business and launch the North End’s first Politically Incorrect Tours.

As a lifelong “Little Italy” resident, the former restaurant owner had seen enough of the mundane and boring Boston tours, which he describes as having no personality. Gesualdi states on his tour website:

“Food tours, wine tours, pizza tours, pastry tours etc. In my ‘humble’ opinion they are all the same … frigging boring. I wanted to run a tour without all the formalities. If something sucks I am going to say it sucks. On why they suck is plain and simple … nobody is originally from the North End!”

“That kind of pissed me off and so I came up with this concept,” he tells BostInno. And trust us, these Politically Incorrect North End Tours will be a different story. This June, Gesualdi launched two of his tours including a “Lunch in Little Italy Tour” and the “Mama Mia Dinner Tour.”

The lunch tour is described as a “three-hour walking food tour” which includes food sampling stops, a full lunch at either Pizzeria Regina or Umberto’s, a visit to local bakery, Italian wine tastings and some Panini-making.

The Mama Mia Dinner tour will also include food sampling, touring historical sites including a visit to the old Headquarters of the alleged Boston mob, a wine class and finally, a homemade Traditional Sunday Dinner cooked by Gesualdi’s mother, Maria.

“I’m telling you,” Gesualdi adds, “it will be a cultural experience that you can’t have anywhere else in Boston.”

Authentic, candid, and anything but politically correct – there’s no holding Gesualdi back as he leads these tours. “It’s a one man show,” he says.

For more information and tickets on the Politically Incorrect Tours of the North End, make sure to check their website and Facebook page.

Image via Michael Schoenholtz