Craving pizza? Here are the top 4 options in Yonkers
Looking to sample the best pizza around town? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top pizzerias in Yonkers, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of where to find your next perfect pie. 1. La Lanterna Restaurant & Caffe Topping the list is La Lanterna Restaurant & Caffe. Located at 23 Gray Oaks Ave. in Nepera...
Marc Forgione and His Legendary Father to Open Big Meatpacking District Restaurant
Chef Marc Forgione — most known for being on the Next Iron Chef and his eponymous NYC restaurant — is branching out again. The chef-restaurateur is teaming up with his decorated and influential father and chef Larry Forgione and the Butter Group of popular clubby spots like 1Oak for a new restaurant called Davide. The restaurant will serve Italian-...
Trattoria Ora
Whether you walk, drive, take the “N” or Uber, just be sure to go to Trattoria Ora, the hot, new restaurant and wine bar on the corner of Astoria Blvd. and 18th Street. Go now, which is what “ora” means in Italian. Located on a quiet corner, the ambience, food, wine, and gracious hospitality from hosts Ray and Mimi Besi are what make Trattoria Ora...
Chef Laura Bernardi Piovesana to prepare Italian feast
Bid farewell to 2018 a little early at “Felice Anno Nuovo,” at which you will enjoy an authentic Italian dinner planned and prepared by Chef Laura Bernardi Piovesana, owner of the Italian Wooden Spoon. The dinner, set for 6 p.m. on Dec. 29 at the Albany Museum of Art, is the second of the fourth season of the AMA’s “Fine Art of Dining” culinary ser...
Fradei, Bistro Serving Regional Italian Food, Will Replace Cafe Lafayette in Fort Greene
Another new restaurant is arriving in the heart of Fort Greene. Fradei, an Italian bistro located at 99 South Portland Avenue, will have its “soft opening” on Thursday, December 20. A new sign for the restaurant recently went up on the awning, after weeks of interior work. The name is a play on an Italian slang word for the word brothers. The space...
Looking back on Lombardo's, closing after almost a century
The interior looks ready to host a restaurant scene from a movie set in the 1930s or ’40s. Small white tiles line the floor of the dining room, a decorative trim in black tracing the edges. Tin ceilings are overhead, wooden booths along the sides. On the walls of Lombardo's Restaurant are scenes, painted in 1933 by an artist who is said to have tra...
Holy Cannoli: Why Little Italy is Thriving in the Bronx
Arthur Avenue in the Bronx is an Italian food lover's paradise. It's where shops more than a century old sell bread and cheese that look so good, people want to photograph it before they taste it. There are so many stores that Christian Galliani and his wife, Danielle Oteri, give tours to locals and tourists who want to know where to find the best...
Pizzeria Acqua e Farina opens in Syosset
Despite the panoply of possible toppings, pizza requires only four ingredients. Two of them, water and flour, are name-checked by the Syosset pizzeria Acqua e Farina. (The other two are salt and yeast, “sel e lievito.”). At first glance, it looks like your run-of-the-mill slice shop, but then you see the wood-burning oven and hear the Italian accen...
Pietro Cucina Italiana review: St. James Italian restaurant offers gutsy plates, smart wine list
A particular aura clings to the old farmhouse on Route 25A, on the edge of St. James, where Restaurant Mirabelle got its start in 1984 (Maria Reuge, wife of Mirabelle chef Guy Reuge, also grew up here). Later, Kitchen A Bistro spent 20 years in the house, a long run by any standard, before closing this spring. Pietro Cucina Italiana, its newest res...
Valpolicella stars in Manhattan, Amarone triumphant
Valpolicella wines, with Amarone as the protagonist, starred in Manhattan's East Village as part of the celebrative tour of the 50th anniversary of the denomination of the iconic red from the north-eastern Veneto region. Celebrations have just wrapped up. The 'SeventyFifty House', one of New York's trendiest areas, hosted walk-around-tasting events...
«Zero Otto Uno», la scommessa di Sonny, da Sarno alla conquista di New York
Zero Otto Uno per chi…mangia da fuori Napoli. La scena è quella di Hoboken, dall’altro lato del fiume Hudson. I sapori sono quelli nostri. A pochi passi da uno dei panorami più ambiti del mondo, un rifugio che ha l’aria e soprattutto i profumi di casa. Manhattan appare di colpo diversa, distante, calma. L’Italia, la Campania, “casa”, insomma, sono...
Central New York woman competing on the Great American Baking Show
Andrea Maranville never expected she would make it on the upcoming season of the Great American Baking Show. After applying last year, but failing to make it through, she wasn't nearly as confident the second time around. But back in August she and nine other contestants were selected to compete on the show and spent a full month taping and baking...