A Taste of Portside Italy Comes to the South Bronx
Luigi Ghidetti, the executive chef at Porto Salvo, hails from Terracina, a seaside city south of Rome, and draws his inspiration from Italian port taverns. That much is evident in the restaurant's nautical theme, which includes a 1921 replica diver's helmet above the register, port holes in the wall, a ship engine telegraph, a captain’s wheel, fish...
Luigi’s Old World Market & Cafe’s aim: simple, fresh, delicious
There’s no shortage of Italian-American restaurants and cafés in Geneva, where there is apparently a segment that just can’t get enough of a taste of the Old World. And now the city can boast another entry into its long list of Italian eateries: Luigi’s Old World Market & Café, which opened last week in a spot where hot dogs once ruled. Luigi’s is...
Mamma Guidara's Is Back for the Season
Right in time for fall, the Italian-American Sunday dinner pop-up at The Nomad Bar is back. In case you missed it last year, Mamma Guidara's is a family-style four-course meal that pays homage to the now-defunct NYC institution that was Mamma Leone's. You can find it at the NoMad Bar every Sunday—hard to miss a full on Italian feast complete with r...
Jersey native honors her parents through cooking
Nothing brings out the word-of-mouth reviews like good food. Paige and Ryan Ringer celebrated their good fortunes Saturday at the Manhattan Farmers Market by spreading the gospel of Sadie and Joe’s Sicilian Oven. “We just took the last biscotti,” Paige said. “She has the best biscotti in town.” “It’s probably the best I’ve ever had,” Ryan said. Tho...
Hidden New York: The Secret Door in Little Italy
For the past 91 years, Little Italy has been home to the yearly San Gennaro festival. The feast features some of the best Italian food around with vendors who wake up each and every day early to prep for the thousands that flock daily to the area. In the middle of it all, along Mulberry Street sits a simple red door four steps below street level. I...
Brooklyn Pizza Hotspot Roberta’s Has Every Intention of Opening in Culver City
Crazy popular Brooklyn restaurant Roberta’s is sliding into Culver City’s Platform project sometime next year. Multiple sources have confirmed to Eater that the move, while previously only rumored, is indeed happening after all. While not as low-key a location as the Brooklyn original, this West Coast iteration of Roberta’s certainly won’t hurt for...
Villa Milano brings familial Italian atmosphere to Manhasset
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name. That’s the feeling in Villa Milano, a decades-old Italian restaurant in Manhasset owned by the Bekteshi family that serves family recipes and focuses on customer service. Co-owner Don Bekteshi said running a restaurant with three generations of a family isn’t a piece of cake, but his family...
Eataly Launches Line of Meals-to-Go
Walk into either Eataly location in New York City, and you’re likely to see mobs of tourists, and long lines to pick up either one of their handmade sandwiches or a slice of their fresh focaccia bread. Venture around the store, and you’ll find stalls set up selling gelato, fresh pasta, a glass case full of cheese, and what is probably some of the b...
Harold Dieterle’s Gluten-Free Italian Restaurant Has Arrived
Gluten-free eaters have a big new restaurant to try with the opening of Tali & Tali Dolce, an entirely gluten-free Italian restaurant, bar, bakery, and ice cream shop from consulting chef Harold Dieterle that has officially debuted in Kips Bay. Tali focuses on the savory side of things, with tons of dishes that aren’t usually associated with gluten...
A Nutella cafe is coming to NYC next year
Super fans of Italian hazelnut-cocoa spread Nutella have something to go nutty over: an all-Nutella cafe is expected to open in Greenwich Village. The city's latest single-subject restaurant will take the ground floor of a new Morris Adjmi–designed condominium building at 116 University Place when it opens next year with a 2,200-square-foot Nutella...
Lidia Bastianich ‘Needs to Have her Hands Close to the Ground’ — in Queens
Queens isn’t known for its gardens but Lidia Bastianich has maintained her own in the borough — Douglaston, to be specific, her residence of 30-plus years. It’s here that she’s planted an heirloom garden, shaped by her growing up in Istria, formerly Italian, now Croatian, across the water from Italy-at-large. While what she’s growing may not be ser...
Brooklyn native Dino Angelo Luciano reaches MasterChef finale, shines on worldwide stage
The Brooklyn Eagle first interviewed the colorful and multi-talented Dino Angelo Luciano, who was born in Brooklyn, at the end of June. He was just beginning his journey as a contestant on season eight of “MasterChef,” Fox’s popular weekly television cooking competition hosted by Chef Gordon Ramsay with judges Christina Tosi and Chef Aaron Sanchez....