It's getting much more difficult to find old-school Italian-American restaurants, coast to coast. Sadly, over the past few decades, even Mulberry Street in New York's iconic Little Italy has devolved into a saccharine tourist trap for unwitting visitors.

When two up-and-coming chefs, Rich Torrisi and Mario Carbone, opened Torrisi Italian Specialties in the middle of Little Italy in 2010, it quickly became a critically acclaimed homage to the Italian-American classics of their youth. Torrisi was the sole outlier in a sea of ersatz mediocrity, but it closed in 2015.

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