Camellone’s serves up N.Y-style pizza, pasta and stromboli
Mike Cammel first got a foothold in the local Italian food business back in 1988 when he was hired as a delivery driver for Domino's Pizza. Soon thereafter, he started cooking Italian fare at Boccutti's, Noble Roman's and Pizza Hut. For the last 19 years, he managed Sbarro's in the Belden Village Mall food court. In December, Cammel broke free from...
New fuel, familiar results at Gallo Coal Fire Kitchen
Remember when brick-oven pizza was unusual in area restaurants? Now even wood-fired pizza, once rare and wondrous as an albino buck, has become common as cows in today's pizza marketplace. Not coal-fired pizza, though. Made in an oven heated to 1,000 degrees or more by blazing anthracite, it has been a fixture in New York City and East Coast coal c...
Casa di Fratelli review: Latino brothers operate warm-hearted Italian restaurant in Westbury
The usual setup at most Italian restaurants on Long Island is an Italian-American owner backed up by a kitchen staff that largely comprises Latino cooks. But at Casa di Fratelli in Westbury, there’s a variation taking place that fuels the debate: Do you have to be born into a cuisine or just need the work ethic to learn it? Located on a busy stretc...
Italian delights dominate Tony's Cafe Italian Eatery in Buffalo Township
There's more to the eye than the many pizza pies at Tony's Cafe Italian Eatery in Buffalo Township. Tony's offers the New York style, mouth-watering display on the front counter of finished pizzas, such as crab meat pizza, chicken-broccoli-alfredo-sauce pizza and taco pizza. They are like baubles in a jewelry store case, but these goodies don't han...
Napoli Pizza and Pasta
Napoli Pizza & Pasta is as real as it gets. Homemade, authentic Neopolitan pizza and all your favorite pasta dishes bring the crowds in to take out, or to stay in and eat in the characteristic “downstairs” kitchen and dining room. This nostalgic family restaurant is exactly what everyone needs right now, in these chaotic times. Come on down and get...
Italian restaurant Ristorante Santa Lucia opens in Melville
Restaurateur Tony Dushaj is back. Again. The Melville restaurant that has been La Fontana since 2012 has now been rechristened Ristorante Santa Lucia. The name change is accompanied by a management change: Tony Dushaj, who first opened Tre Scalini at this location in 2009 is back as chef-owner. In fact, this is Dushaj’s third restaurant at 672 Walt...
Sicilian Seafood Restaurant Opening in SoHo
A Sicilian-born chef and restaurateur is opening a new seafood joint on Thompson Street. Piccola Cucina Estiatorio will be Chef Philip Guardione's fourth venture, in addition to two other Piccola Cucinas in SoHo — one on Prince Street and the other on Spring Street — and a third in Ibiza, Spain. This iteration, at 75 Thompson St., will focus on Med...
Tiramisù Day
We've declared it Tiramisù Day on March 19! Celebrate this classic Italian dessert with us with complimentary flash labs so you can learn all about Tiramisù. So why don't you join us at Le Eccellenze from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.? Eataly NYC Flatiron, 200 5th Ave, New York While you wait for this day of celebrations to arrive, you can still discover Tiram...
Best bread in Brooklyn, all from family-run bakeries
Some of the highest-quality carbs in the the five boroughs can be found at Brooklyn’s family-owned bakeries and wholesale businesses. From traditional loaves of Italian bread to French classics like baguettes, seasonal varieties (Irish soda bread) to flavorful twists (cranberry-raisin with sunflower seeds), the possibilities are nearly endless for...
New York Restaurateur Hans Pauli Has Died
Hans Pauli started Sant Ambroeus, his New York pasticceria and cafe in 1983 serving, “the luxuries of Italy, in an understated, Giorgio Armani kind of way,” Amanda Hesser wrote in The New York Times in the late 90s. Partners Dimitri Pauli and Gherardo Guarducci have announced that Pauli, Dimitri’s father and the founder of Sant Ambroeus, has died....
Grannies from the world over helm kitchen at New York restaurant
Just inside the entrance to an Italian restaurant on a recent afternoon in the historic St. George neighbourhood on Staten Island, the smell of soy and ponzu masked that of onions and garlic. The source? A Japanese woman had taken over the kitchen to make gyoza and shrimp dumpling soup. “The dumplings are good!” said a customer at a table of seven,...
Soho House launching Italian eatery known to attract celebs
You don’t need to be a member of Soho House to dine at Cecconi’s — its first stand-alone restaurant in New York. Soho House & Co. is opening Cecconi’s in Dumbo this May on the ground floor of Empire Stores. The Northern Italian eatery — a magnet for celebrities like Halle Barry, Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow — originated in London. Now, it has...