by John Mariani

Mario's is one of those restaurants I look for opportunities to write about, usually in round-ups of my favorite Italian restaurants in New York, best pizzerias, and best restaurants in the Belmont section of the Bronx. So it's about time I spend an entire article in praise of a place that has been such a part of Italian-American culinary history since opening in 1919.

The Miglucci family has run Mario's for five generations now, currently with head of family Joseph, his daughter, Regina, his sons (in the kitchen, his son Michael and Mario) and his sister Barbara, all of whom would as soon commit a mortal sin as to compromise the traditions of their forebears who made this the quintessential Neapolitan ristorante in America. 

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