A Maximalist Italian Restaurant With a Three-Foot-Tall Pepper Mill Lands in Brooklyn
The name Café Mars might conjure images of Mars 2112, the legendary shuttered Space Age Times Square restaurant, but there are no rocket ships, aliens, or freeze-dried space food to be found here. Either way, opening on Wednesday, May 17, at 272 Third Avenue, at President Street, Café Mars is unusual for Gowanus, a neighborhood due for a culinary s...
How Food Memories of Italy Inspire Chef Mauro Campanale
Chef Mauro Campanale was born in Bari, Italy, in the region of Puglia. As a young boy, he started working at his family’s agriturismo, where he discovered his passion for cooking. At age 19, he left Italy to explore the world and worked in various cities, including São Paulo, Milan, and London. He arrived in New York City in 2018 to cook at Antica...
One Of Naples’ Oldest Pizzerias Now Has A Location In Manhattan
One of Naples’ oldest pizzerias now has an address in Manhattan. Those who learned about L’antica Pizzeria da Michele through the film adaptation of “Eat, Pray, Love” don’t have to travel to Southern Italy to order their pies. Now, pizza enthusiasts can head to the West Village to experience this U.S. offshoot of this Napoli institution. With a sof...
At Ilio DiPaolo's, family dining values persist
When the far-flung members of our dining party finally coalesced at Ilio DiPaolo’s Restaurant, we immediately started causing problems. What started as a table of four grew into a party of six. Then seven, as another wounded duck swooped for shelter amid a nest of friends. That would have been enough to jam up the works at most places. At Ilio DiPa...
At New York’s New Il Tinello East, ‘Old School’ Proves Just How Deliciously Refined Italian Food And Hospitality Can Be
People who do not know the difference between “old fashioned” and “Old School” wrongly believe that both connote something decidedly dated, sentimental and simplistic. In fact, “old fashioned” may involve, even cherish, some of those accusations, but “Old School” refers to the upholding of standards and traditions that have bolstered some of the be...
Bad Roman Is New York City’s Newest Instagrammable Italian Restaurant
Tucked inside NYC’s Columbus Circle, Bad Roman is the city’s buzziest new Italian restaurant — to say it’s exceedingly “Instagrammable” would be an understatement. Upon walking past the glowing, neon-red entrance sign, a wild boar statue sits prominently on a pedestal behind the check-in desk. The main dining area, styled by GRT Architects, is deck...
20 Restaurants For The Best Meatballs In NYC
New York City's food scene is bursting with options from just about every culture you can think of. It's then no surprise that this diverse culinary center has some of the best meatballs in America. Of course, Italian food is deeply ingrained in New York City culture, and New York City has some of the best Italian restaurants in the United States....
Local Flavor 2023: After more than 100 years, Schenectady’s Civitello’s still making visitors feel right at home
The sign above the green and white awning at 42 North Jay St. says Civitello’s Spumoni & Italian Pastry, but to Roie and Angela Angerami, it’s home. For nearly 102 years their family has kept shop in the boxy brick building in Schenectady’s Little Italy neighborhood, selling made-from-scratch confections that have kept customers coming back for gen...
La Casa Bella – Bay Ridge Italian
Linguini with clams in white sauce is as basic a dish to Brooklyn Italian neighbourhoods like Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge as is pizza. The neighbourhoods are far away from Manhattan, and the restaurants are far away from their nearest subway stations, which might be why their descendants wear their pride like the shroud protecting the Statue of Liber...
Rosanna’s Italian Kitchen in Albany under new ownership
Rosanna’s Italian Kitchen in Albany is under new ownership. The owners of Albany’s The Hollow Bar + Kitchen, Dora and Michael Philip, along with Chef Rachel Mabb and industry veterans, Jory Leanza and Elizabeth McCann, are buying the restaurant. “We love what the Bongiornos’ created in 1978 and what Brianne Baggetta and Tim Dillon reimagined and br...
Joey’s Italian Restaurant is sold: No change planned to food, but something big is coming
After 41 years, Joey DeCuffa has sold a majority stake in the restaurants that bear his name on Carrier Circle and have earned a reputation as among Central New York’s best for Italian dining. The fine-dining Joey’s Classic Italian and its upstairs casual-menu sister operation, Pronto Joey’s, will be operated by Bill Cleary, a Cortland businessman....
Chef Thomas Perone has created a hub for “Old School Italian” in Bay Ridge
At Brooklyn Roots in Bay Ridge, on a wintery Saturday night, the crowded room teemed with conviviality, from the happy-go-lucky bartender, to the friendly waitstaff working the floor, to the open kitchen in back where the crew prepared the type of Italian food that has generated similar excitement every night since opening in October of 2021. The I...