Lìolà is not your typical neighborhood Italian restaurant in Queens. Owner and Chef Angelo Alaimo is serious about providing sophisticated, thoughtful dishes, fine wines and exceptional customer service that rival the top Italian restaurants in the entire New York Metropolitan area. Dinner commences with a plate of cubed parmesan, green and black olives, and an extraordinary hot pickled pepper.

The black olives, especially, are meaty and flavorful with the perfect balance of tang and quiet goodness. To bite into the pickled pepper is to experience a fresh and shocking squirt of spiciness that somehow won't cow you into submission but will have you reaching, gallantly, for another slice – after some cheese and olives in between.

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