Italian restaurant Uncle Tony’s to open in Farmingdale
It’s time to visit your Uncle Tony’s. The restaurant and pizzeria is the newest addition to Farmingdale’s growing restaurant row on Main Street. After a major remodeling, Uncle Tony’s has opened in the former site of Cascarino’s. The grand opening is June 1 and will honor local police, firefighters, emergency medical service and first responders, s...
Hamptons hotspot to get an Italian makeover
Italy will meet Southampton this summer, as celeb hot spot 75 Main introduces a new menu from consulting chef Michele Brogioni, of Armani Restaurant on Fifth Avenue. Fans of Zach Erdem’s 75 Main include Joe Biden, LA Reid, Barbara Walters, Alex Rodriguez and the Kardashian clan. Dishes will include grilled filet mignon with brandy green peppercorn...
‘Regina’s’ Brings Italian Sandwiches and Imported Goods to Lower Orchard Street
There’s a new sandwich shop to speak of on lower Orchard Street. Where Georgia’s Vintage once peddled vintage, a throwback deli counter called Regina’s is poised to open. The brown-paper window shades were deposed this week to reveal the new store, complete with hex-tiled floors and shelves of dry goods. Regina’s also incorporates the ghost signage...
Smorg Vendor Tramezzini Brings Its Venetian Sandos to the Lower East Side
First came Trapizzino, and now comes Tramezzini. Lower East Siders are getting a serious education in Italian street sandos. Back in February, the Roman pizza pocket operation, Trapizzino, opened on Orchard Street. Now Tramezzini, a Smorgasburg vendor specializing in Venetian sandwiches, is opening just a handful of blocks away, on Houston Street....
DaNico's just closed, now here comes DeLuca's Restaurant
Here lies the story about a 27-year-old guy from Staten Island living the restaurant dream. That's what Rob DeLuca will tell you when you sit down with him in his soon-to-open first restaurant. "My culinary background started just down the street at Nucci's South. I was 17 years old and I was bussing tables," said DeLuca. His venture will be called...
Castelli America Eyes Grant, Expansion For Blockville Plant
After taking over Empire Specialty Cheese Co. last year, Castelli America is ready for expansion at its Blockville plant. In doing so, the company is requesting county assistance through the submission of a grant to the state on its behalf. County legislators on the Planning and Economic Development Committee gave their approval on Wednesday to au...
Why One of New York’s Most Respected Chefs Decided to Expand to Long Island’s North Fork
For nearly two decades, Frank DeCarlo has run Peasant, the Elizabeth Street Italian restaurant with a wood-fired oven and a very devoted following. While DeCarlo has expanded, he’s hardly an empire builder. In fact, a new restaurant opening in a couple weeks will be only his third. That restaurant, Barba Bianca — “White Beard” — won’t even be in Ne...
Italian restaurant Meta Osteria & Barra opens in Oceanside
Meta Osteria & Barra is bringing a new spin on Italian cuisine to Oceanside. Meta opens in the former site of Sole, with a colorful menu that seasons traditional Italian and Italian-American fare with contemporary accents. It’s under the same management as Sole, which arrived in 2000. Dennis Durdaller is the managing partner; Robert Carmosino is ch...
Cuoppo NYC opens in Merrick serving bite-size fried Italian food in paper cones
Cars may outnumber pedestrians on Merrick Road, but both can now stop for one of Naples’ most popular street foods. Louis Fontana and his wife, Lauren, opened Cuoppo NYC this week at one end of a Merrick strip mall, selling paper cones filled with bite-size, feather-light fried food. “I learned to cook from my family,” said chef Louis Fontana, whos...
Sofra Grill: How a former Waldorf chef makes a new Italian restaurant stand out
When the Waldorf Astoria restaurant closed in March, chefs like Dominick Di Napoli picked up other cooking gigs. Di Napoli, for instance, landed at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge. In the meantime, he also opened a restaurant with a friend, fellow Staten Islander Jimmy Kelmendi. "Sofra is my baby," Di Napoli enthuses. "It's fun Italian...
Be Italian: A New York il meglio delle eccellenze lombarde a tavola
Mille miliardi di dollari in cibo, di cui 493 nei ristoranti, un mercato di “food specialities” che vale 85,87 miliardi, con tassi di crescita a doppia cifra. Negli Stati Uniti il prodotto alimentare italiano di qualità gioca sempre più un ruolo da protagonista, facendo leva sulla grande considerazione che i consumatori americani mostrano per il ma...
Lou Malnati's Is Bringing Chicago Deep Dish Pizza To New York City
If Chicago has anything on New York, it's the pizza. Okay, and maybe the hot dogs. And the 2016 World Series Champions. This Chicagoan-turned-New Yorker loves a greasy dollar slice as much as the next frantic and hungry commuter, but nothing can rival the multilayered, super cheesy bliss of a hot out of the oven Chicago-style deep dish pizza.