Did you hear the one about the breakout baseball player fueled by chicken parm? It’s a story on my mind as I’m dining at New York’s Arthur and Sons. The art on the wall consists of Sinatra and Goodfellas, the wine is flowing, and the food is decidedly red sauce. The mastermind of star chef Joe Isidori, whose family is behind a multitude of New York...
READ MORETwo Holy Relics of St. Anthony of Padua will visit the Archdiocese of New York as well as the dioceses of Brooklyn and Paterson from Friday, June 6 to Sunday, June 15. The two first-class Relics will be accompanied by Fathers Mario Conte and Fabio Turrisendo, two Franciscan friars from the Pontifical Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua, Italy. The two...
READ MOREAs the city celebrates the 13th edition of New York City Design Week, the Italian Cultural Institute of New York has opened Reimagining the Everyday Landscape, an exhibition celebrating two protagonists of Italian design: the late Gaetano Pesce, who passed away last year, and Gianni Pettena. Both emerged during the radical era of the 1960s and 1970...
READ MOREItalian heritage brand Santoni celebrated its 50th anniversary by opening the largest boutique in its history on March 13th in Manhattan. There is architecture that you simply admire, and then there’s architecture you feel in your soul. The new Santoni store on Madison Avenue falls into the latter category; while it is not a design for everyone, it...
READ MOREThe Italian Consulate in New York has opened the doors to “Italy and The New Yorker Across a Century” — a visual tribute to Italy as seen, imagined, evoked, or signed on the covers of the iconic American magazine across a hundred years of publishing history. The covers of The New Yorker don’t chase headlines. They’re more like visual haikus—sometim...
READ MOREAlmost eight years after it opened, Don Angie remains one of the toughest reservations to score in New York, and that’s because no one’s doing Italian-American food the way Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli do it. The culinary power couple had worked at restaurants across the city and developed the menu at Quality Italian prior to opening Don Angie in...
READ MORE2025-05-20 @ 06:00 PM - Columbus Citizens Foundation, 8 East 69th Street, New York, NY. RSVP here. CCF is honored to welcome Marta Youth, who is currently preparing for her next role as Deputy Chief of Mission for the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy for a conversation on U.S. foreign policy with CCF member Kristie Loiacono. As the daughter of Italian...
READ MOREThe Italian Trade Agency (ITA) is inviting the public to experience authentic Italian lifestyle and culture at its Madison Avenue townhouse in New York City. For the first time, the much-anticipated third edition of Italy on Madison will take place at the beautiful ITA headquarters. On Wednesday, May 14th and Thursday, May 15th, 2025, more than 90...
READ MOREIconic Italian star Monica Vitti is a stateside tribute with the posthumous festival “Monica Vitti: La Modernista,” presented by Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà. The actress, who died in 2022, was immortalized onscreen with her famed collaborations with auteurs Michelangelo Antonioni and Luis Buñuel. Now, the 14-film series at FLC will be the...
READ MOREPack your passport and your appetite—Eataly is landing at JFK. The beloved Italian food emporium is bringing its signature pastas, pastries and prosciutto to three terminals at New York’s busiest international airport later this year. That’s right: Terminals 4, 5 and 8 will each get their own slice of la dolce vita, marking Eataly’s first foray int...
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