Best Italian Ices in New York City
Also known as water ices, Italian ices are the perfect NYC snack when summer starts rolling in. You’ll find Italian ice spots all over the city, but these five picks below are the best of the best when it comes to this classic Italian dessert. Don't you deserve a little refreshment? Best of NYC Water Ices: Pasticceria Rocco (West Village): Pasticce...
Mario Batali's Shares His Favorite Parts Of Eataly's NYC Flagship
A lot's been said about Mario Batali's orange Crocs — pretty much everything. They've become more like the punchline to a joke than a choice in footwear, but when you favor a rubber neon clog over an unassuming sneaker, you're sort of inviting the commentary. It's the Crocs you see first when Batali walks down the street. Even in Manhattan's bustli...
With Arrival of Avocado Bar, Brooklyn Has It All
This innovative bar is the place for avocado everything: smoothies, salads and, yes, toast. Francesco Brachetti, a native of Florence, Italy, fell for avocados while living in Mexico. “They’re tasty and healthy, and I ate them every day,” he said. “We didn’t have them in Italy.” He persuaded a cousin, the chef Alberto Gramini, also from Florence, a...
Fiaschetteria Pistoia: A Brilliant Bit of Tuscany Lands in the East Village
In the 1990s, Tuscan cuisine blazed across the culinary firmament like a comet. Helped along by Frances Mayes’ book-turned-movie, Under the Tuscan Sun, Americans were besotted with the region’s simple and elegant cooking. We savored pungent pecorino and rustic salami as a first course, just-made pastas lightly sauced as a second, and third courses...
A food tour of Arthur Avenue, the Bronx’s Little Italy
Little Italy in Lower Manhattan has long been associated with pizza parlors and gelato bars. But with gentrification, the neighborhood has shrunk and many residents have relocated to other boroughs and suburbs. One of the most noteworthy is the Bronx’s Arthur Avenue, where another, more authentic Little Italy proves harder to get to for tourists bu...
5 Couples Italian Cooking Classes in NYC
If love is in the air and you also want the smell of a good meal in the air, you’ll love this list of 5 couples Italian cooking classes in NYC. I may not be the best cook, but I do love cooking and I especially love eating Italian food. While I love eating it, I don’t really know how to make many Italian recipes other than an Alfredo sauce from scr...
Italian Brands Earn 124 Awards at NYIOOC
Once again, Italy achieved major success at the 2017 New York International Olive Oil Competition (NYIOOC), with a record 124 awards among 198 entries. The country ranked first in both the number of contestants and awarded brands. Italian producers achieved outstanding results even after fighting the hardships of one of the worst harvest seasons in...
Con una tradizione che passa di padre in figlio, l'Aceto balsamico tradizionale conquista gli States
Nonostante l'aceto balsamico sia un prodotto noto a livello internazionale sin dall'XI secolo, c'è ancora confusione su DOP e IGT. Gli americani sono tra i maggiori estimatori e tra gli ambasciatori di questa eccellenza made in Italy ci sono importatori e ristoratori Non solo qualità ed eccellenza dell’Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale DOP. Dietro l’oro...
Upstate New York's best Italian restaurant: And the winners are...
Not all heroes wear capes -- others wear napkin bibs. We searched in the North Country, the Southern Tier, Western New York and the Capital Region for the best Italian restaurant Upstate New York has to offer. After hundreds of nominations and votes for semifinalists, the readers narrowed down our list to six finalists. Here are the winners of Upst...
Brevettano i tramezzini negli Usa, tre veneti conquistano New York
L’inizio è stato una battuta: «Ma perché in America nessuno fa i tramezzini?». Perché, pur essendoci migliaia di bar, paninoteche o simili, non si vede quel «sorriso» di ingredienti tra le due fette di pane bianco del famoso «sandwich» che deve il suo nome addirittura a Gabriele D’Annunzio? E così il 38enne Filippo Paccagnella, da dieci a New York,...
Chef Giuseppe Marrone Takes the Helm at ACQUA Restaurant and Wine Bar at Peck Slip, NYC
We wish our dear friend Chef Giuseppe Marrone much success on his new venture as Executive Chef and Managing Partner of ACQUA Restaurant and Wine Bar in Manhattan’s historic South Street Seaport. Stopping by after work with a few friends, we were treated to the same fine dining and Neapolitan hospitality we’ve grown accustomed to while he was in ch...
Iconic Coney Island restaurant Gargiulo’s hosts family reunion
Brooklyn’s infamous Gargiulo's Restaurant at 2911 West 15th Street, Coney Island, celebrated a milestone on Sunday, April 23, as generations of family members — children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and cousins — traveled from all across the country to return to Coney Island for the gathering. Gargiulo’s, one of New York’s oldest restaurants, w...