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When thinking of the best Italian restaurants in NYC, Melrose doesn’t exactly come to mind, until now. Primed right on East 161st Street - less than a half mile from Yankee Stadium, Porto Salvo is bringing exquisite, southern Italian cuisine to the borough in never-before-done style. “This area is a food desert and we intend to change that,” said M...

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With new eating contests and WCBS-FM radio personality Joe Causi in the line up for 2018, the San Gennaro Feast marches into its 92nd year in Little Italy. The City's longest-running and largest street festival starts on Thursday, Sept. 13, and runs for 11 days until Sunday, Sept. 23. Food is omnipresent at the San Gennaro. And restaurants like Il...

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Peppino's Restaurant and Catering Group has won the contract to be the sole provider of food and beverage inside the new expo center at the New York State Fairgrounds. But don't expect Peppino's award-winning pizza during this first fair. "We didn't have enough time to get our oven in there," owner John Vigliotti said. The state's Department of Agr...

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Fans are ready and the date has been circled on calendars across the region. After months of preparation, the competition gets real on Sunday, Sept. 9. That's the day area restaurants will take to the streets for Meatball Street Brawl III, the third annual rendition of Buffalo's tastiest food competition. Hosted and organized by Osteria 166, the It...

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Twelve years after they debuted Downtown mainstay Fratelli Milano owners Roberto Bearzi and Fiorella Blanco have opened up their second restaurant, Vista (5020 NE 2nd Avenue). Keeping with their Italian roots the new eatery offers up cuisine from Italy with Miami influences. On the all-day menu are dishes like calamari with sesame salt, crudo with...

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When you travel around Italy you will quickly notice that, in every single region, there are culinary traditions locals are not only proud of, but also genuinely consider the best, if one was to compare them with those of the rest of Italy. Recipes change from one town to another, or from one house to another, and each one is the best according to...

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Hyde Park Village has announced the signing of a new lease with Sorrento Sweets, an old-world Italian bakery, at 716 S Village Circle. Sorrento Sweets was founded in Pasco County and this new location will sell Italian cakes, pastries and cookies made out of its Pasco facility. That, plus gelato shakes, gelato floats, espresso drinks and more. Sorr...

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On May 23, Filomena Ristorante could be said to have turned 35 years old. According to owner JoAnna Filomena, however, that’s not the true age of her landmark Georgetown restaurant, since its construction took a little over two and a half years. “I’m already past that,” she says. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t looking back to where she started. No...

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When it comes to bocce, you can call it a comeback. The old Italian sport was not too popular on the Island for many years, but Angelina's Ristorante drastically changed that with its own bocce league. "It started five years ago and what really made me want to do it is I'm a big contributor to Staten Island University Hospital and a good friend of...

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At A Mano, a new Italian restaurant opening in the Icon Tower this fall, the salumi and pasta will be made in-house. So will the pastrami and corned beef. A Mano Kitchen & Bar aims to offer modern American food with Italian soul, says co-owner Anthony Fiacchi. That means most of the dinner menu, from meatballs to roman artichokes to pear-and-gorgon...

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