Columbus Circle’s New, Eccentric Italian Restaurant
New Italian restaurant Bad Roman is now open on the third floor of the Columbus Circle shopping center, marking the first excursion into the Upper West Side by the upscale father and son team that owns a cornucopia of restaurants in New York, Miami Beach and Denver. The newest entrée headed by the father and son team of Alan and Michael Stillman an...
Prosciutto Bread: A Southern Italian Delicacy That's Made Its Way To NYC
There is a lot of really good bread in New York City. The city has a long history of being home to immigrants from around the world, making it a melting pot of cultures, languages, and foods. Wherever you are in the vast metropolis, you are likely just a walking distance away from Jewish bagels and bialys, French baguettes and croissants, German pr...
Italian Aperitivo is Taking Over this Neighborhood
Little Italy’s customary cuisine and (pre-dinner) cocktails have traveled northwest into the trendy West Village neighborhood for a restyle. Aperitivo ‘tails, such the fizzy Aperol Spritz, are experiencing a thoughtful upgrade under top restaurateurs and bev-experts—calling the “who’s who” to the city’s West Side. “There’s been an uptick in regiona...
ITA Kitchen is opening 3rd spot, this time in East Moriches
ITA Kitchen is cooking up a new location on Long Island. Salvatore and Christina Sorrentino, the husband-and-wife ownership team behind the Italian restaurant, announced they are opening an ITA Kitchen in East Moriches. They confirmed to greaterlongisland.com that ITA Kitchen has taken over the former Coral Tapas & Wine Bar spot on Atlantic Ave. Th...
Crowd favorite Italian food booth at Shirt Factory Truck Corral buys building a block away
Giovanni Fresco, the popular Italian food vendor at the Shirt Factory Food Truck Corral, is getting its first brick and mortar location, one block away. Giovanni Casanica, 30, and his wife Francesca Casanica, 26, have purchased the former Open Door Mission building at the corner of Walnut and Lawrence Streets for $125,000. “We are excited. We are s...
Celebrating St. Joseph’s Day in the Bronx
The feast of St. Joseph’s Day is coming up on March 19th and there’s no better place to celebrate than here in the Bronx in Little Italy! If you’re unfamiliar with St. Joseph’s Day, it’s the day that Italian Catholics honor Joseph, husband to the Virgin Mary. It also happens to be when Italy celebrates Father’s Day. In addition, if your name is Jos...
Is the New Torrisi Restaurant Worth It?
Say what you want about Major Food Group, comprising Rich Torrisi and Mario Carbone, along with their partner, Jeff Zalaznick, who’ve opened a conglomerate of restaurants across the globe — many of them named after themselves. Let’s face it: They’re long on appeal, or they wouldn’t be doing so well. Maybe it’s because they make restaurantgoers feel...
A Short Menu Points to a Chef With a Vision in Fidi
If you’ve really explored the verdant, hilly byways of Tuscany, you know that the eating opportunities are not confined to historic osterias and roadside rotisseries. More innovative places are tucked away here and there that tinker with the country’s cuisine while rarely attracting tourists. Now modern Tuscan cooking has arrived on Wall Street at...
Popular cookbook author Katie Parla coming to Buffalo to promote ‘Food Of The Italian Islands’
The Niagara region is populated with tens of thousands of residents of Italian descent, including those with Sicilian lineage. A new, profusely illustrated book celebrates Sicily and other Italian islands and the food that’s prepared in their cities and villages. Katie Parla, an American from New Jersey who moved to Rome, Italy, to immerse herself...
Gnocchi That’s Worth a Trip to Red Hook Italian classics and perfect negronis at Bar Mario.
I have a new favorite bartender. His name is Enrico, and he works at a place in Red Hook called Bar Mario. It’s been open for only about a month, though most of the people inside already know Enrico’s name as well. Before Bar Mario, he worked at restaurants in Manhattan for a couple decades and before that owned a bar and pizzeria in a mountain tow...
Il Fiorista: Italian Cuisine With A Floral Twist
Mario and Alessandra De Benedetti, both of whom were born and raised in Italy, share a keen appreciation of nature and good food. Combiningthese passions, the couple began developing an interest in the nutritiona and emotional benefits of flowers and herbs. When the De Bennedettis relocated from Milan to New York about five years ago, they realized...
Constantino's Pizzeria Brings Family-Style Italian Food To Hartsdale
A family-owned and operated pizzeria and ice cream shop opened recently in Hartsdale. Located at 15 E. Hartsdale Ave., Constantino’s Pizzeria and Ice Cream Shop originated in Greenwich, Connecticut, but when Robyn Bordes and her husband Michael opened a new restaurant in Westchester, it was a bit of a homecoming. Robyn Bordes said in an intervie...