A new Italian restaurant has opened its doors in the neighborhood. Called Il Pallino, the fresh addition is located at 4916 Arthur Kill Road on Staten Island's South Shore. The restaurant has indoor bocce courts, a full bar and a 75-seat dining room.The menu features classic Italian dishes, such as octopus Bolognese di nero with squid ink linguine,...
For a taste of tried and true Italian cuisine and hospitality, you don’t need to head across the Atlantic to the shores of Sicily; one needs only to head on over to Il Vizio of Massapequa to experience a real taste of the old country, right in the heart of Long Island. In a day in age when there are almost more restaurant options out there than the...
Quando Quintiliano nel riportare il giudizio di Asinio Pollione su Tito Livio e le sue virtù oratorie parla di quendam Patavinitas si riferisce probabilmente a un certo provincialismo che rende tipico l’eloquio dello storico; ed è proprio sulle caratteristiche del territorio, sulle qualità iper-local che fa leva Patavini, il nuovo ristorante incast...
It’s a fact: Lasagna is the best food known to man, a beautiful carb explosion of cheese, béchamel, and garlicky tomato sauce sandwiched between layer after layer of noodle. New York, being the mecca of Italian-American cooking that it is, has plenty of choices, but Grub decided to spotlight the best and brightest from a spate of old-school and new...
The Niagara Falls City Council honored four local Italian restaurants on Pine Avenue with nearly three centuries of combined history on Tuesday night. The Como Restaurant, established in 1927 and the oldest among them, celebrated its 90th anniversary last year. The mainstay city eatery has its roots in founder Francesco Antonacci’s bakery, which op...
Puglia’s Italian Steakhouse combines Long Island’s two favorite cuisines and seasons them with history. It’s a big taste of Little Italy. This is the offspring of Puglia in Manhattan. The family-owned-and-operated restaurant travels east on a red sea of sauce, and southern Italian and Italian-American favorites. Some dishes from the Hester Street l...
Many times have I found myself on a narrow back road in Italy, surrounded by hills, trees and vineyards, to see nothing else but a little country winery in the distance. Eventually I would end up stopping by that wine producer, not knowing what to expect, to see if I could taste their wines and hear their story. Sometimes I would taste wines that h...
Song’ E Napule NYC è la migliore pizzeria del mondo al di fuori dei confini nazionali. Parola del Gambero Rosso che, tra le pagine web della guida Top Italian Restaurant, consacra Ciro Iovine nell’Olimpo dei pizzaioli dei cinque continenti. Una gioia incontenibile per lo scugnizzo di Fuorigrotta, oramai all’estero da molti anni. Un sogno che divent...
Tony Evangelista has been carrying around a photo of his distant cousin in his wallet for decades. Last weekend, his distant cousin Nunzio Sulprizio was among the seven men and women elevated to sainthood on Oct. 14. Evangelista, who owns Il Posto Italian Restaurant in Bergen Beach, refers to his cousin as “the beato,” which means blessed in Italia...
Step through the doors of Antica Trattoria into a classic Italian restaurant and a slice of old New York. Trends come and go, and so do new eateries trying to satisfy everyone’s cravings. Well, Antica Trattoria in Ridgewood has been serving classic Italian cuisine, made from scratch, for the last 37 years. Its 100-year-old copper ceiling has develo...
Maura Ardu, chef-manager di origine calabro-piemontese-sarda, trapiantata da oltre dieci anni nella Grande Mela, è la vincitrice della quinta edizione USA di MISS CHEF® New York 2018, la kermesse internazionale che si è svolta il 5 ottobre nel rinomato ristorante di Manhattan, Norma. MISS CHEF® (www.misschef.net) è la prima competizione tra alcune...
Decisions, decisions. If you had to go to one pizzeria in each of New York's 62 counties, which would be the ones? That's a "Pie in the Sky" question for most, who likely wouldn't be able to name more than a handful of counties. But a website has come out with its answers. In presenting them, newyorkupstate.com says its choices may not be the best...