Italy's top free-service charcuterie brand in the U.S. is among the headliners at the New York City Wine & Food Festival, scheduled for Oct. 13-16
This is a record-breaking week for Veroni, the historic Italian charcuterie company, which lands on the banks of the Hudson River to attend the New York City Wine & Food Festival (NYCWFF, Oct. 13-16), the Big Apple’s largest food and wine event. Platinum sponsor of the event, the top Italian brand of free-service sliced cured meats in the U.S. (sou...
Rocco’s Of Roc Beach Celebrates Italian Heritage Month
October is Italian heritage month and Rocco’s of Roc Beach has launched a 4-course tasting menu, featuring a new region of Italy each week. Chef Bruno and Rocco’s Team created a wonderful selection with a taste of Calabria last week, and The Wave really enjoyed our meal. Calabria, a region of southwest Italy, occupies the “toe” of the country’s boo...
Fratelli Beretta Sponsors New York City Wine & Food Festival's Taste of Italy Event
After returning from a vacation in Italy this summer, I miss the delicious flavors of the country’s signature products and dishes. To bring a little bit of Italy to the United States, Fratelli Beretta is the presenting sponsor of the New York City Wine & Food Festival’s (NYCWFF) Taste of Italy event, which will feature many different stands with ch...
Bella Napoli Bakery & Cafe Just Might Have The Most Epic Dessert Selection In All Of New York
Do you like sweet treats? Who doesn’t, right? If you find yourself craving a dessert from a spot with an epic dessert selection, you should stop by Bella Napoli Bakery and Cafe. You might be surprised to learn that one of the very best, authentic Italian bakeries in the state of New York is in Latham and in Troy near Albany – but it’s true. This ta...
Pietrocola's Pastina Bistro moving to new venue in Delmar
Mike Pietrocola, whose culinary career was spent mostly in the Schenectady-Saratoga area until he opened Pastina Bistro in Albany nearly two years ago, is leaving town. He told me today that he is moving Pastina to Delmar, in the former Twisted Vine Wine & Tap, which shut down its Four Corners restaurant in June. Pietrocola said the new 384 Kenwood...
Little Italy’s famed La Bella Ferrara bakery joins Time Out Market New York
La Bella Ferrara has been delighting denizens of Little Italy and countless visitors since the late 1800s, according to its fourth-generation owner Liz Lee Grazioso, but it never expanded to Brooklyn before she took the business over from her godfather in 2021. “I grew up in the cafe and the bakery,” Lee Grazioso says, referring to the present Man...
An Evening at Sardi’s: Dinner with a side of Broadway history
Known for its kooky caricatures and its Broadway opening-night traditions, Sardi’s fed the stars of the golden age and became a hotspot for producers, directors and writers — and, of course, those struggling to get their attention. When Vincent Sardi opened his first restaurant in 1921, Prohibition had begun, and the midtown Broadway theater distri...
6 Amazing Old School Italian Restaurants in the Hudson Valley
I love Italian food. I’m a picky eater, but I can always find something delicious on the menu when I’m at an Italian restaurant. And my favorite Italian restaurants are the old school Italian restaurants where you feel like you’ve stepped back in time. And a lot of those old school restaurants have been around forever and still serve great Italian...
Italian sausage with pumpkin spice? A famed CNY meat company debuts one this month
Italian sausage is one of the best-loved food items in Central New York. And here, as elsewhere, pumpkin spice is one of the most controversial food flavorings — people love it or hate it. What happens when they’re combined? We’ll find out this weekend, when one of the region’s best-known meat companies, Basilio Buda, launches a Pumpkin Spice Sausa...
Cannoli, sausage-n-peppers and amore: Italian Feast returns at The Mount
Is it possible to down seven Ferrara cannoli in just a few minutes? Indeed it is for Carlo Giambotto of Rossville who consumed just that at the Mount Loretto Italian Festival on Friday, Oct. 7. But the competitive eating contest was just a fraction of sights at the annual Pleasant Plains three-day festa. Food trucks, a beer and sangria garden and I...
Parma Nuova Brings True Emilia-Romagna Food To New York’s Upper East Side
Under the single name Parma, this old-style Italian restaurant had been a fixture on Manhattan’s Upper East Side since 1977, opened by Elio Guaitolini and afterwards owned by John Piscina. Now, as Parma Nuova, it has been beautifully transformed by owner Giorgio Manzio, a Sicilian who has worked in New York’s Da Silvano, Le Cirque, Bella Blu and La...
Italian Eatery With Brownstone Dinner Party Vibe Opening On The UWS
A new restaurant opening Wednesday on the Upper West Side serves a brownstone dinner party vibe alongside classic Italian cuisine. Osteria Accademia will welcome customers for the first time at 646 Amsterdam Ave., between 91st and 92nd streets, in the former home of shuttered Italian eatery Scarlatto. The eatery is run by restaurateur Huseyin Ozer,...