The Noto family lends its famous meatball recipe. Chef Kim Leo tosses in a clam bar concept. And it will all come together soon as Noto's Casa Cucina in the Great Kills space formerly occupied by Jimmy Max.

The Notos' V&J Soriano's Pork Store is a long-running Italian specialty grocery that prides itself on a Sunday tradition called "Meatball Mania." In this one-day-a-week festival of sorts, owner John Noto pan-fries meatballs from morning through early afternoon in a kitchen set-up in the middle of his store. Patrons are known to queue up well outside of Soriano's for such an occasion.