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This week, plant-based deli Galioto’s reopens in NYC. Cofounded by Nicole Galioto and the JaJaJa Group, Galioto’s opened last year on Mulberry St in NYC’s Little Italy, providing a well-curated selection of plant-based Italian goods, as well as made-to-order dishes and prepared vegan specialties. Now, the restaurant makes its second debut as a chef...

For those who celebrate Christmas, so much of the season builds up to the main event: Dec. 25. Christmas Eve is often an after-thought, a time to put gifts under the tree or scramble for last-minute presents and sparse parking spots at stores. But some find the idea of glossing over Christmas Eve a bit, well, fishy. Some families, particularly Ital...

A popular Italian restaurant chain that has locations across the globe is opening a venue inside a new development in the Queens Plaza section of Long Island City. Serafina – which has restaurants in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Japan, India, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – will open in the second half of 2022 inside the recentl...

No, you need not visit Italy just for a meal! Thankfully there are a bunch of restaurants around that let you taste authentic and traditional dishes of Italy right here in New York. While there are a number of average Italian places mushrooming all over the city, Casabianca NYC is the ‘ristorante’ to enjoy a traditional meal. It is a family restaur...

Described by the owners as offering Italian cuisine with a modern flair, Lago Ristorante in Harrison has become known for its homemade pasta, daily specials, tableside meal preparations, pizzas, and panuozzi, a panini-like sandwiches made with charred pizza dough. The restaurant is also known for its meatballs that can be eaten any number of ways i...

A new restaurant that specializes in Neapolitan-style pizzas and Italian pasta dishes has opened on 31st Street in Astoria. Sotto La Luna, which means “under the moon” in Italian, opened today at a new food and beverage hall at 34-39 31st St. The restaurant has taken a 2,500 square foot space at the recently-constructed development known as The Wor...

The Consorzio di Tutela Vini d'Abruzzo is delighted to present a Restaurant Week in New York City, partnering with various restaurants from December 13th through the 20th. Throughout this time period prestige, yet approachable restaurants in both Manhattan and Brooklyn will promote wines from the Consorzio Tutela Vini D'Abruzzo highlighting Montepu...

Days from opening, Master Chef Marco Barrila welcomes a guest into his new Italian eatery, Insatiable Eats Pastaria, already filled with the tempting aromas and tastes of Sicily. Tables are filled with heaping platters of tantalizing pastas, salads, pizzas in the cozy space, exuding warmth as conversation and laughter hum. Barrila proudly displays...

The team behind beloved restaurant L’Artusi opens Via Porta, a neighborhood café and sandwich shop in the West Village adjacent to the group’s recently opened restaurant and wine bar b’artusi [522 Hudson Street, between West 10th and Charles Streets]. Open for breakfast and lunch, Via Porta offers an all-day takeaway menu of Italian-inspired sandwi...

Join us on December 15 at 6pm for an enlightening evening as author Daniel Paterna discusses his photographic culinary memoir, Feast of the Seven Fishes: A Brooklyn-Italian’s Recipes Celebrating Food and Family. The event is $45 per person, and includes a holiday gift bag, including a signed copy of Feast of the Seven Fishes - perfect for the Chris...

A new local Italian restaurant has opened at Eastview Mall. Nocino is in the massive space previously occupied by Prime Steak House and before that, Biaggi’s Ristorante Italiano. Rochester restaurateur Josh Miles — who owns and operates  The Revelry on University Avenue, Parcel 5-adjacent Branca Midtown, and Bitter Honey and Velvet Belly, both at t...

This fall, Long Island got another Italian restaurant. But the owners of Nunzi's in Farmingdale wanted to create a unique Italian dining experience. Michael Napolitano knew downtown Farmingdale would be the perfect place for the southern Italian food eatery, he told Patch. "We wanted to find something in a town that was growing and expanding such a...