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Dolce Italy, a cozy East Avenue bakery that serves traditional Italian pastries, has been open for less than a year, but the family that owns it has already captured the hearts of many Rochesterians. When the DiGrazia family announced on Facebook that 21-year-old Francesca DiGrazia had had heart transplant surgery on March 22, the post received an...

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For Bilena Settepani, food and family go hand in hand. The 25-year-old manages her family’s restaurant and bakery, Settepani, which has locations in New York’s Brooklyn and Harlem neighborhoods. “Settepani, which is first and foremost my last name, means ‘seven breads’ in Italian,” Settepani told In The Know. “My dad always jokes that my first job...

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Let us remind you of a classic Hollywood scene that's now part of foodie history: In the film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir Eat Pray Love, Julia Roberts' character indulges in an entire pizza Margherita while at Naples-based pizzeria L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele. New Yorkers, we've got some good news for you: you'll no longer have to tra...

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For an Italian dish to fly under the radar is rare in a city that has an insatiable appetite for red sauce restaurants, pizza joints, and trattorias of every stripe. That’s the start of the mystique around sanguinaccio, a seasonal dish that can be either “the sexiest sausage in the world” or a chocolate pudding (spoiler: the chocolate pudding is mo...

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For nearly a generation, some of the most robust Italian regional flavors in our area have been emanating from a gleaming vintage diner across from the Harrison Metro-North station. Chef and owner Dean Vivolo of Trattoria Vivolo in Harrison is marking his 20th anniversary with a variety of tasty new specialties, dining options and enhanced al fresc...

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If you are lucky enough to have tasted one of the more than 700,000 pizzas Chef Anthony Mangieri has made in his lifetime, you’ll see why the New York Times called the pizzas he produces at Una Pizza Napoletana the best pizza from a sit-down restaurant in all of New York City. Just think about that for a moment. The best. Pizza. New York City. You...

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Sam’s Italian American Restaurant opened April 6, 1971, and has been run by the same family since. It will observe its 50th anniversary from April 6 to 10 with three-course meals for $19.71. (The regular menu will also be available.) Entrees on the anniversary menu are spaghetti with red or white clam sauce, cheese tortellini with mushroom cream, b...

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For the past 5 years, Frank’s Italian Restaurant in Maine has been importing chocolate Easter eggs from Italy to sell to its customers. Every year it’s such a hit that the owner of the restaurant, Frank LoPiccolo, decided to bring in a 22 pound Easter egg to raffle off. The 22 pound egg is made entirely of milk chocolate and a raffle ticket costs o...

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Before 2020, each December in which I was fortunate enough to serve as your restaurant critic brought a “year in review.” After the annus horribilis fading in our rear-view mirrors, it seemed wrong to issue a casualties list while so many places could only be hibernating. Instead, I’ll focus on presenting places that I’ve been pleasantly surprised...

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Ciao, baby! The former Ciao Baby Italian restaurant has been replaced by Bar Grazie, an Italian gastrobar with Mexican flare. Cousins Lenny Oliva and Frank Cammarata remain owners, but everything else--including its famous oversized rice ball--has changed. After being closed just shy of a year, the eatery relaunches with an entirely refurbished int...

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Many businesses have been hit hard by the pandemic, and restaurants in particular have suffered from the various restrictions set in place over the past year. La Bussola Ristorante, a staple of the Glen Cove restaurant scene for more than 40 years, has not only been supported by the community enough to get it through these hard times, it has also b...

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At Sant Ambroeus, hot chocolate arrives in a delicate porcelain cup, thick, rich, and ever so bitter, with a pressed doily beneath. Few Italian coffee shops and restaurants in New York City can rival the elegant spirit and graceful service of Sant Ambroeus, named after the patron saint of Milan. It's proving a successful formula.  On Monday, March...

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