Italian Favorite Coco Pazzo Will Make a Comeback This Fall
Chroniclers of Italian food in New York City know Pino Luongo as an ambitious, irascible O.G. of Tuscan cuisine, having risen from the lowly rank of Da Silvano busboy to helm such late-20th-century hot spots as Il Cantinori, Sapore di Mare, Le Madri, and Mad.61 before succumbing to ill-fated business deals, crushing rents, and eventual bankruptcy....
How to Eat Well in Little Italy
Manhattan’s Little Italy is home to overpriced, wildly mediocre restaurants packed with nostalgic tourists twirling bites from heaping plates of spaghetti. Let’s face it: New Yorkers don’t really eat in today’s Little Italy, the stretch of Mulberry Street north of Canal and a smattering of Mott Street, dotted with restaurants where the red sauce ta...
Guido's Pasta Villa in Irondequoit is a classic Italian restaurant
Whenever Floridian Tony Demo is back in town visiting family, there’s one restaurant he’s sure to stop into: Guido’s Pasta Villa on East Ridge Road in Irondequoit. “I grew up in this neighborhood and came here for years and years,” said Demo, waiting at the bar for lunch on Monday afternoon. “I know what good Italian food is all about and, hands do...
Basilio Inn: What makes it Staten Island's oldest restaurant?
In today's paeans to old neighborhood restaurants, the motivations for keeping those beloved establishments alive are often taken for granted. The phrase "It's been in the family for decades" is its own explanation, a beat to hit without diving further into why the family cares, or what toll those decades have taken. The mere fact that an eatery ha...
This massive chicken parm pizza is the ultimate Italian comfort dish
If you’ve ever felt the desire to eat a 14-inch slab of chicken Parm with your hands, NYC’s Quality Italian has precisely the entree for you. The Italian-American eatery in Midtown is famous for its chicken Parm pizza -- which comes with a crust made entirely of fried chicken. “Pizza is the ultimate comfort food” says Quality Italian Chef Angie Rit...
Salvatore, lo chef che porta i sapori della Sicilia nel cuore di New York
Da un’isola ad un’altra. E poi ancora un’altra isola. Un destino isolano a cui Salvatore Fraterrigo, titolare e chef del ristorante newyorchese Norma- Gastronomia siciliana, non sembra riesca a sottrarsi. Lascia la sua Sicilia nel 2004 per Manhattan. E sposa una sarda. Della sua Trapani si porta dietro sapori e saperi che diventano l’ambiente e il...
The Via Carota Team Is Bringing More Italian Flair to Sheridan Square
“Rita and I tend to create places we are longing for,” says chef Jody Williams, who opened the West Village’s Via Carota three years ago with partner Rita Sodi as an homage to Sodi’s onetime home outside Florence. The couple’s next collaboration, Pisellino, celebrates the classic Italian bar, an icon of urbanity that serves so many crucial social a...
Rosa’s Pizza
Rosa’s Pizza was established by the Troia Family in 1975 and has since grown to include several locations in Queens, Manhattan and Long Island. The newest location just opened about a month ago on 21st Street in Astoria, and we are all thankful for this casual, reliable Italian spot in an area that really needs it. Needless to say, the Troia family...
Mio Posto flourishes in new Albany space
Indulge me while I get a little starry-eyed over the recent arrival of Mio Posto in downtown Albany after its displacement from Saratoga Springs by fire. Who am I to ask the gods what transpired for the former Lark & Lily to become available as Mio Posto's new home? Did Sylvia Meder Lilly wake up one morning and decide it was time to pass the baton...
DeMonte's Salumeria & Pork Store opens in West Brighton
By about 7 a.m. on Monday, Anthony De Monte put finishing touches on the display cases at De Monte's Salumeria & Pork Store in West Brighton. Finally, his family's Italian specialty shop is ready for business on its official opening day. "The response has been great. The whole community has been so welcoming," said DeMonte, pleased with the warm gr...
Southtown staple Mulberry expanding north
Mulberry Italian Restaurant is a staple of the southtowns, and they’ve been approached before to expand in Western New York, Toronto, even as far as Ohio. But a decision has been made, and it’s good news for lovers of Italian cuisine — it’s much closer than the Buckeye State. Mulberry will be opening a new location in the northtowns, at the former...
Mario Borgatti honored with street co-naming
A legendary merchant in Belmont was immortalized with a street naming near the store he ran for decades. Mario Borgatti, proprietor of Borgatti’s Ravioli & Egg Noodles on East 187th Street and a fixture in Belmont’s business and philanthropic efforts for decades, was posthumously honored with a street co-naming near his iconic business on Sunday, J...