Italian Food in a Village, But in the Hudson Valley
Inspired by the bars, lounges, and restaurants of downtown Manhattan, Fourteen Railroad opened its doors in Warwick, in December 2020. The business is located just 90 minutes away from New York City, in the heart of the Hudson Valley, surrounded by farmland and mountains. It’s an environment that takes a lot of influence from Italy and its respect...
Panettone Shines Year-Round at This Brooklyn Bakery
It appears, considering the row of bright-colored boxes of panettone stacked on holiday-season displays, that the sweet Christmas bread that originated in Italy doesn’t literally have a shelf-life, but by the time the holidays are over, most consumers have had enough panettone to last them until next December. Not at Settepani Bakery in Brooklyn, w...
Rudy’s Bakery And Cafe: For Owner Toni Binanti, Her Ridgewood Customers Are Family
For owner Antonetta “Toni” Binanti, Rudy’s in Ridgewood is more than a cafe. “What is Rudy’s? Rudy’s is my home,” she said. When the German-American bakery opened in 1936, its signage bore the word konditorei, the German word for a pastry shop. These days, a distinctive blue and white awning still displays the word. Treats made from the shop’s orig...
Love Is The Secret To Good Espresso At La Casa Del Caffe In The Bronx
On her first day working at the cafe she’d bought with her husband, Anna Agovino was nervous. “I’d never made espresso. I’d never made a cappuccino in my life,” she said. But that changed quickly. “In one day, I learned,” she said. Over two decades later, she remains both the barista and the fiery personality behind La Casa del Caffe in the Morris...
After 75 years, third generation taking over Cardona's Market
The gravitational pull of Cardona’s Market is strong on most of the men in the eponymous family. This spring, as the store celebrates its 75th anniversary, the third generation is officially taking over. Augusto Cardona founded the food market downtown in 1945, a few years after arriving from his native Italy to New York’s capital, where his brothe...
West Village Italian Cafe, Pane Pasta Celebrates First Anniversary This Month
Coming to America with dreams of opening an authentic Italian cafe with The Sicilian Experience in the heart of the West Village last March, 2020, Vincenzo Virzi and Pietro Chirco could have never known that there would be a pandemic and shutdown. They had to close for a month and then bravely re-opened in April for take out and delivery only. Ther...
Ollie's Pizza and the Wild Ride of Opening in a Pandemic
Ollie’s Pizza's August 2020 opening should have been a joyous, feel-good celebration. It involved a local boy coming home to the small Hudson Valley town of High Falls with his wife and their young daughter, for whom the restaurant is named. They and another friend renovated the 1850s barn on the site, located right in the middle of the hamlet, bri...
Regina Migliucci-Delfino – Mario’s Restaurant Stays Open and in the Family
In the last year and a half, the pandemic dealt a severe blow to restaurants in New York City, many of them closing, possibly never opening again. For Regina Migliucci-Delfino, Covid-19 not only forced the closure of her restaurant, Mario’s, on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, but claimed the life of her father, Joseph, who died on April 6 at age 81, af...
Pizza Amore's new North Tonawanda location gives wings to next generation
A new generation is rising to take charge of Pizza Amore as the Grand Island pizzeria adds a new North Tonawanda location later this month. At 13, Devon Perri was there when her parents, Dave and Diana Perri, started Pizza Amore Wood Fire, a quick-service pizza trailer key to the rise of Buffalo-area food trucks in 2011. She was there, two years l...
This Brooklyn-Made Amari Takes Me Back to Italy
We all have those quarantine foods—the ones you rely on so heavily that you may never want to taste them again once we’re on the other side of this. It’s all too easy to fall into rote eating habits when we are tethered to our fridges, which is why when we do taste something surprising and good, it’s that much more special. A new flavor that shook...
Queens Italian Favorite Il Triangolo Makes A Comeback After Closing Last Year
Beloved Queens Italian restaurant Il Triangolo is set to reopen after initially closing down permanently last October. The red sauce joint will reopen March 4 with a new owner at the helm but the same staff and menu, Eater has learned. Edwin Nunez, who oversaw the design and marketing for the restaurant, purchased the establishment from its longtim...
A Vegan Italian Deli? Only in New York!
Mortadella. Prosciutto. Provolone. Craving the Italian deli classics but looking to eat healthier or stick to a plant-based diet? Not a problem anymore if you live in New York. Galioto’s Delicatessen opened in December 2020 on Mulberry Street in the heart of Little Italy, and it’s considered the first and only vegan Italian delicatessen in New York...