A Tavolo moves into former Brass Lantern building on Chenango Bridge Road
A local Italian restaurant is expanding its customer base at its new Chenango Bridge location. A Tavolo, formerly in Windsor, has moved into the former Brass Lantern building on Chenango Bridge Road. Since it opened in August, it has seen a significant increase in business and has had to hire additional staff. A Tavolo is owned by David Gatto and D...
Duecento Cocktail Lounge Opening in Italian Village
Local entrepreneurs Andrew Losinske and Ted Lawson (Bullwinkles Night Club) are injecting a bit of Italian flair into Italian Village. They’ll open up Duecento, Italian for “two-hundred,” on the corner of East Fourth Avenue and North Fourth Street this Saturday, Feb. 2. Losinske and Lawson took over the lease at 200 E. Fourth Ave. three years ago,...
West Village Italian Favorite Dell’anima Starts New Life in Food Hall Today
West Village neighborhood restaurant Dell’anima officially has a new home — in a food hall. The wine and pasta destination shuttered in December after a decade in the neighborhood, though with plans to relocate uptown to Hell’s Kitchen’s Gotham Market West. Now, chef-owner Andrew Whitney and partners Danir Rincon and Jacob Cohen have revived the re...
Leonti Is a ‘Boldly Creative’ Italian Restaurant on the UWS, Critic Says
New Yorker critic Hannah Goldfield really dug Leonti’s bread. The new Upper West Side restaurant by chef Adam Leonti serves a durum-wheat focaccia with a “burnished bronze” crust and an interior that’s “bubbled” and “stretchy.” The bread, made by the chef himself, is “magnificent,” she writes. But she enjoys the rest of her meal as well, describing...
Staten Island nightlife: A new look for Bruno's Bakery & Restaurant in Dongan Hills
We opted to stay close to home this weekend -- on Staten Island's East Shore that is -- and didn't have to travel too far to land at Bruno's Bakery & Restaurant, the divine Dongan Hills dining spot formerly referred to as Pasticceria Bruno -- where we were in for a pleasant surprise. There's been a change in the scenery at Bruno's with the sprawlin...
Angelina’s opening third Staten Island restaurant
After the success of Angelina’s Kitchen in New Springville, the mother-son team of Angelina and Vincent Malerba will continue to expand their brand, with plans to open a 5,500-square-foot eatery in The Boulevard, a new shopping center being built in New Dorp. “Angelina’s Kitchen has been incredibly successful since we opened two years ago. People l...
Legendary Former Da Silvano Space Now Has a New Italian Restaurant
The space of legendary Greenwich Village celebrity hangout Da Silvano now has a new Italian restaurant, from a chef who once worked at luxe fashion restaurant Armani Ristorante. Avena Downtown opens today at 260 Sixth Ave., between Bleecker and West Houston streets, serving pastas, appetizers such as a seared scallop with truffles, and entrees lik...
How to Celebrate Valentine's Day at Eataly NYC Downtown
Did you know that San Valentino was Italian? It's true: the patron saint of love spent much of his life in Roma. So...we like to think that we Italians know what we’re doing when it comes to amore. Whether you are celebrating out or at home, plan the perfect Valentine’s Day with all of our romantic Italian offerings at Eataly NYC Downtown!
Ventura's Restaurant to celebrate milestone anniversary
Ventura’s Restaurant will celebrate its 75th anniversary later this month. Along with the Greater Utica Chamber of Commerce, the restaurant will have a celebratory ribbon-cutting with hors d'oeuvres at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30. “In 1943 my parents Rufus Sr. and my mother, Marie, started Ventura's Restaurant,” said Rufus J. Ventura Jr., known to...
New York's Mamo Has Matured, With A Little Less Buzz But Better Italian Cuisine
Buzz, like the irresistible smell of a new car, does not last forever, but a finely tuned, good-looking car can be a joy to those who appreciate the consistent delivery of what it was they loved about it the day they bought it. Mamo in Soho seems to have achieved that same effect on regulars, who once might have come for the celebrity clientele whe...
Tales of Italy Through One Small Wine Importer
Their mission: to deliver the nuances of each of Italy’s 526 wine appellations, which might otherwise stay beyond reach for wine drinkers in other places. Small-scale, dedicated importers are important suppliers of less-known bottles and crucial cultural resources, too, bearers of those places' innumerable details and possibilities. A boutique wine...
A Taste of Cioccolato
Chocolate lovers, rejoice! On Saturday, February 9 from 12-5 p.m. we're hosting an epic chocolate event at Eataly NYC Downtown featuring tastings, live demonstrations, our best chocolate producers, and wines by the glass to pair. Yes, chocolate dreams do come true. Join us for A Taste of Cioccolato at Eataly NYC Downtown! We've invited some of our ...