Pastosa Ravioli: Italian market where you shop like you're back in the 'old country'
Ahhh, Italia! It's a given: The time-honored Italian culture is steeped in the arts, architecture, incredible cars, music, fashionable clothing, fine food and wine -- and yes, family tradition. Within the culture, gathering with family is a high priority and frequent get togethers are commonplace -- especially on holidays and important occasions wh...
Take the cannoli: A New York state of mind leads to Sicily Rose
Milli Joe owner Nick Leichtentritt has always had a special place in his heart for simple Italian cannoli, and he’s planning to bring his favorite dessert to Charlottesville at Sicily Rose, an Italian coffee and cannoli bar opening in September in the Studio IX space. “Sicily Rose is a project I’ve actually been working on and thinking about for a...
Get Your Parm on With This Tasty Food Truck
Michael Paolercio and Christian Prior, both Tuckahoe residents, use their mother’s collective recipes as the inspiration for the menu on their Mac’s Food Truck, serving Italian-American comfort food including sausage and pepper, chicken cutlet parm, and meatball parm wedges. In addition to the aforementioned wedges, the pair is developing an eggpla...
Staten Island Nightlife: LaStrada Restaurant, a longstanding tradition in New Dorp
It's another weekend on Staten Island's summer social circuit, and during this next-to-last weekend of the season we landed in LaStrada Restaurant, a longstanding dining spot in New Dorp -- that originally opened as an espresso house back in the 1980s. According to LaStrada's current owner, Anthony Santisi, who came on board in 1987, LaStrada -- t...
Italian-inspired gastropub Prato 850 succeeds Ciao Baby in Commack
Prato 850, a contemporary Italian-inspired restaurant, has opened in Commack, succeeding the branch of Ciao Baby that had been in the Mayfair Shopping Center. The grand opening of the restaurant is slated for Sept. 1, said manager Raymond Panza. Currently, Prato 850 is "softly" open from 4 p.m., Monday to Thursday; and for both lunch and dinner Fri...
Porto Salvo jazzes up south Bronx cuisine
When thinking of the best Italian restaurants in NYC, Melrose doesn’t exactly come to mind, until now. Primed right on East 161st Street - less than a half mile from Yankee Stadium, Porto Salvo is bringing exquisite, southern Italian cuisine to the borough in never-before-done style. “This area is a food desert and we intend to change that,” said M...
Peppino's wins food and beverage contract for NYS Fair's new Expo Center
Peppino's Restaurant and Catering Group has won the contract to be the sole provider of food and beverage inside the new expo center at the New York State Fairgrounds. But don't expect Peppino's award-winning pizza during this first fair. "We didn't have enough time to get our oven in there," owner John Vigliotti said. The state's Department of Agr...
Meatball Street Brawl III ready to roll Sept. 9
Fans are ready and the date has been circled on calendars across the region. After months of preparation, the competition gets real on Sunday, Sept. 9. That's the day area restaurants will take to the streets for Meatball Street Brawl III, the third annual rendition of Buffalo's tastiest food competition. Hosted and organized by Osteria 166, the It...
A Mano, an Italian restaurant where pasta and pastrami will be handmade
At A Mano, a new Italian restaurant opening in the Icon Tower this fall, the salumi and pasta will be made in-house. So will the pastrami and corned beef. A Mano Kitchen & Bar aims to offer modern American food with Italian soul, says co-owner Anthony Fiacchi. That means most of the dinner menu, from meatballs to roman artichokes to pear-and-gorgon...
Mahopac Deli Awarded NYS Business of the Month
It's been said that the Bucci brothers, Michael and Thomas, were "born to slice." Ask their father and partner, John, and he'll say the brothers were "bread" to run the finest authentic Italian delicatessen and buffet catering service in the Hudson Valley. Bucci Brothers Deli in Mahopac has been satisfying discerning palates in the Hudson Valley fo...
Kobrand Corporation Announces Seventh Annual Tour d’Italia
Kobrand Corporation, a leading wine and spirits importer of a distinguished portfolio of hand-selected brands from around the world, will host the seventh annual “Kobrand Tour d’Italia.” The four-city tour presents the world’s most iconic Italian wine brands and principals. Trade and consumer tastings held in each city will explore the elite Italia...
Puglia's Italian Steakhouse to open in Seaford
Puglia's Italian Steakhouse is set to open on Aug. 21 in Seaford. The restaurant, from the family that owns the landmark Puglia in Manhattan's Little Italy (established in 1919) and the departed Puglia's Garden City Cafe, will move into the former address of Il Felice. Owner Greg Garofalo, who also owns Lobster Shack in Seaford, said the new restau...