Once upon a time....In a remote area of Italy's Lombardy region, there lives a count, Edoardo Visconti di Modrone, whose family's noble history dates back to the 1300s.
His ancestor Gian Galeazzo Visconti was the first Duke of Milan. After living in London and then Milan, Edoardo decided to return to the family's countryside home in a quiet village outside of Pavia. The villa was once ...
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LESPRESSO BAR is now open at Alta Cucina Epicurean Center in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
L'ESPRESSO BAR serves authentic Espresso and Cappuccino with Italian Sweets for a classic Italian breakfast and midmorning break (Cappuccino and Cornetto anyone ?) as well as Soup, Pasta and Panini for lunch to eat inside or ...
It’s clearly meant to honor the many ways she learned to prepare pasta, when Sarah Jenkins’s year old East Village eatery bills itself as, “Porsena, a Pasta Restaurant”. I first encountered Chef Jenkins promising style of cooking several years ago at the Northern Italian trattoria, I Coppi, two blocks to the north.
Now Chef Jenkins has her own place, after cooking at a few other downtown places. This follows by three years, her opening nearby Porchetta (110 East 7th Street) a storefront operation totally dedicated to serving the public the ...
You might not expect that subsumed within the glare of publicity which greeted the Trump Soho Hotel last year that a first rate Italian restaurant, Quattro Gastronomia Italiana, occupies the ground floor.
Quattro is a handsome emerald green hued David Rockwell designed space with soaring twenty foot plus ceilings; the setting matches the quality of the food being served.
I was a recent guest of Quattro for one of two recent meals there. ...
Marcony, the Capri inspired restaurant in Murray Hill has a new Executive Chef, Peter Graziano.
Since graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, Graziano honed his cooking skills at the original Italian restaurant in the then brand new Trump Tower, at Barolo in SoHo, and at Piccolo, his own restaurant in the Hudson ...
Trattoria La Pesa dating back to 1902 is traditional and sophisticated. An ideal trattoria for a dining occasion that is best enjoyed with friends, because talking and sharing is mandatory.
Located just a short distance from the center of Milano, near the San Siro stadium, and open every day, and on Sundays for lunch and dinner, how perfect.
Colleagues Alessandro and Carmelo, Italian food importers from Barcelona, ...
Perbacco, a well established Italian restaurant in the East Village, looks at Italian food from delightfully different directions.
With a young Executive Chef, Stefano Bonelli from Modena Italy, Perbacco often reinterprets traditional Italian dishes, and with a bit of whimsy, it causes diners to concentrate on the structure of various classic preparations, such as ...
Michael White, everybodys darling, has recently launched a new venture in New York, Ai Fiori, in the Setai Hotel on Fifth Avenue and 37th Street. Like his other successful haunts, this one has Italian dishes on the menu but is somewhat more varied
His recipes are usually based on traditional Italian fare and always have a slightly modern twist. This one also looks west to the French Riviera. Ai Fiori is more upscale than the Osteria Morini and a tad less pricey than ...
Marco Pipolos and Richard Emmolo new Italian venue, Marcony, is a bright inviting restaurant for hearty Italian food with a Capri influence and upscale service.
Marcony shines out on a quiet stretch of Lexington Avenue in Murray Hill. The owners’ restaurant pedigree is impressive, Pipolo comes from Scalinatella at 61st and Third Avenue and Emmolio was at Barolo in Soho. ...
Over four visits in the past two months, since the Neapolitan inspired Tiella ristorante opened, Ive seen its popularity grow each time. From a few diners initially wandering in, attracted by Tiellas quality look, to a full restaurant on my last visit which was a warm late summer night.
It’s not surprising to see that Tiella resonates with customers, since it has all of the right ingredients: it admirably overcomes its small storefront space with handsome design choices; has a refined almost delicate ...
Michele Luzzo’s East Village Pizzeria has been a favorite of many. So he decided to open a new location in Chelsea on the West side of town and named it Ovest (it means west in Italian). Ovest is the first pizzoteca (pizzeria and wine bar) in NYC.
Coal-burning ovens are hot commodities for pizza makers (since city codes prohibit new coal ovens from being built). The only way to get one is to inherit it—which is what happened at Luzzo’s, Michele Luzzo’s East ...
Danny Meyer, the most successful restaurateur in New York City has skillfully opened his first Italian trattoria and a Roman one at that.
Inspired by his early days working in Rome, he has designed, in collaboration with the architect David Rockwell, a casual trattoria that a New Yorker would be happy to find in Rome, and a Roman would enjoy finding in New York.
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I cant see the canal from the revolving door inside the Hotel Danieli in Venice. Its late November, foggy, and the wooden planks are in place enabling pedestrians a romantic stroll to their favorite bar for an aperitivo. It.s my birthday. I'm in love.That was 15 years ago.
Unheard of to be in the Veneto region and not take a little architectural time in Venice and Vicenza. For many years, my extended family in Italy, Annamaria Astro born in Vicenza and her husband Franco, encouraged me to spend a few days ...
Aldo Trabalza, the chef and owner of Sora Lella, the famous Roman Trattoria, has just opened Sora Lella in New York. Aldo, that is Sora Lella's son, plans to offer New Yorkers a lightened up but authentic Roman cuisine. The results are delicious.
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In the Eternal City, right on the Isola Tiberina, a boat-shaped island located in the southern bend of the Tiber River, inside a Medieval tower, you find one of the favorite destinations of international tourists ...
The osteria is a tavern or humble restaurant where you will find basic but delicious food such as polenta, risotto, gnocchi, cheeses, braised meats, omelets made with wild herbs, and good baked desserts. Osteria di Villafredda, in Tarcento, near Udine in Friuli, offers excellent Friulian food and wine.
Before the 1930s, one would arrive at an osteria on horseback or carter’s with their horses, stop for a meal and a rest, and continue their trip with new horses. On the way back, these horses would be returned, and the first ...
Osteria al Portonat is a place for tasting the famous ham of San Daniele and offers full meals and snacks of Friulian gastronomy. Besides the prosciutto, at the Osteria you can find traditional dishes from Friuli like the Crostini with Gorgonzola and Speck, the Frico, and the Gubana Strudel pastry.
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If you miss the dishes you tried on your last trip to Tuscany, like the ribollita, the wild boar, or the tiramisu, you can find the same flavors at Cipolla Rossa, a real Tuscan restaurant on the Upper East Side in New York City.
by Frank Angelino
Cipolla Rossa is an authentic Tuscan flavored dining spot on the northeastern most reach of the Upper East Side. The east side of First Avenue between East 90th and East 92nd Street is an incubator of ...
From Parma straight to Manhattan, Salumeria Rosi brings to the Big Apple all the traditional specialties of Italian gastronomy with a special focus on cured meat.
Salumeria Rosi is a joint project of the Rosi family of Parma, owners of the Parmacotto brand, and the Tuscan chef Cesare Casella, ambassador of Italian cooking in the U.S. Parma is considered the capital of the Italian gastronomy and, ...
If you long for the best caprese in town, you must go to Obika’, the first mozzarella bar in New York. Obika’ is the creation of Silvio Ursini, the Neapolitan entrepreneur that opened mozzarella bars in Rome, Milan, Kuwait City, Athens, Tokyo and London. The menu features pastas, organic salads, and other dishes with imported and domestic mozzarella.
By Natasha Davis
More than pizza and caprese salad
There's more to mozzarella than pizza and caprese salad; this mild, fresh cheese isn't just a topping but it's a treat in and of itself.
With this in ...
Chef Ed Brown's new restaurant, Eighty One, located in the Upper West side of New York City, gets a coveted award, one Michelin Star, for the first time. Chef Brown has been consistently praised for his work at The Sea Grill and is considered one of the top chefs in the New York City scene. We are proud to have this talented chef as one of Alta Cucina's Board Member. Congratulations Ed !!!
Chef Ed Brown's new restaurant, Eighty One, located in the Upper West side of New York City, gets a much-coveted award, one Michelin Star, for the first time.
Chef Brown has been consistently praised for his work at The Sea ...
Cavatappo Grill is Luca Marcato's brand new restaurant on Manhattan's Upper East Side, on the site of Marcato's previous restaurant, Luca. "I want [Cavatappo] to be a reliable place, fairly priced and comfortable, with meals like homemade" says Marcato. The menu is contemporary New York cuisine but Italian based so try Cavatappos signature dishes like the Homemade Spinach Ricotta Ravioli or the Grilled Prawns with Parsley and Garlic Sauce.
There are some restaurants that try to appeal to everyone. And in doing so, they appeal to no one in particular. At Cavatappo Grill, owner Luca Marcato is not trying to create a restaurant for masses or to overwhelm his patrons. ...
Insieme, the New York City restaurant of respected chef Marco Canora, earns an important award. The new Michelin guide 2009 gives Insieme one star for the first time. This recognition comes after Insieme was nominated one of the Top restaurants in New York by the New York Times and New York Magazine.
Insieme, the New York City restaurant of respected chef Marco Canora, earns an important award. The new Michelin guide 2009 gives Insieme one star for the first time. This recognition comes after Insieme was nominated one of the Top ...
Aurora Soho is distinctively different. A glance at its menu confirms that a good deal of innovative thinking went into it, with not a cookie-cutter dish on it, all the while keeping thoroughly to the heritage of Italian cooking. ...
Scarpetta is the latest upscale Italian restaurant opened by Scott Conant, a chef who has been thrilling diners and impressing critics since 2003, when his first restaurant, L’Impero, opened. Chef Conant has gained many fans for ...
“I set out to create a menu of dishes I grew up with, what I like to call ‘recognizable’ or ‘approachable’ Italian.”
And with that philosophy, Chef Jim Botsacos has created Abboccato, located on 55th Street in Manhattan. American-born, but of Italian and Greek ancestry, Botsacos is a chef/partner at Abboccato, which means “pleasing to the ...
At A Voce Restaurant in NYC
If word of mouth is the best advertisement, then A Voce, “word of mouth” in Italian, is its own publicist. Located in the Gramercy section of Manhattan, A Voce can also be described as “a mano,” since most of the ...
Chef White is Italian as can be without being Italian
Transitioning with a noticeably different beat, Chef Michael White last year took over the kitchen of the highly acclaimed L’Impero in Tudor City. Closely identified with its departed founding chef Scott Conant since 2002, ...
Chef Marco Canora presents a blend of the Traditional and the Contemporary
The cuisine at Insieme, “together” in Italian, embodies its name. Chef/owner Marco Canora’s vision joins the traditional and the contemporary, with a profound regard for both. And in fact, the recipe at Insieme features ...
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There may be senators, dignitaries and government officials seated at the next table, but at Café Oggi, everyone is treated the same: like a friend. Located in McLean Virginia, a suburb ofWashington, D.C., Café Oggi ...
Chef Edward G. Brown has long had a reputation for culinary talent as the executive chef of New York’s The Sea Grill for 14 years. Brown’s skill has earned him a long list of accolades; he can claim 14 stars, and counting, to ...
Authentic Italian cuisine is the specialty of the house at Via Quadronno.
Chef Maurizio Florio hails from Naples, but he also uses the experience he has gained from 20 years as a chef to include Northern Italian touches and recipes in his repertoire. For instance, the menu at Via Quadronno includes cotoletta ...
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Scottadito Restaurant brings authentic and exquisite Tuscan cuisine to the hip neighborhood of Park Slope
Among the many attractions of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope, along with the great stores that sell anything from organic food to yarns, the lovely Prospect Park just around the corner, and the beautiful landscape made of ...
Can you find a traditional and authentic Neapolitan restaurant in New York? Yes, of course
Il Gattopardo was a great book by the Sicilian nobleman Filippo Tomasi di Lampedusa, then, in 1963, it became a movie The Leopard, directed by legendary maestro Luchino Visconti and starring Burt Lancaster and Claudia ...
Italian specialties from different regions served in a lovely family-run wine bar in Middle Village, Queens
Their names are Mamma Rosa, Angela, Annalisa, Leonardo, Gordon and Richard.
They are the creators of the new, (it’s been open for only a few weeks), family-run Queens restaurant Uvarara.
Mamma Rosa, Angela and ...
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Portrait of a special restaurant that uses over 40 types of extra virgin olive oil
Tano, short for Gaetano and his wife Nadia Simonato, don’t just pass the oil. Tano’s reputation and knowledge as the “sommelier” of extra virgin olive oil began when he and his wife opened their restaurant ...
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Via Emilia is the headquarters of one of the best regional Italian cuisines the one from Emilia Romagna
Every time somebody finds out that I come from Italy, from the region Emilia Romagna to be exact, they always ask me a suggestion for a good place to eat. For the longest time I didn’t know what to answer, because bad Italian ...
Mauro Maccioni talks about his family restaurant, Tuscan food and a dish of spaghetti that decided his destiny
Legendary restaurateur Sirio Maccioni, came to New York at a time when authentic Italian cuisine was not as fashionable and chic as today. He wanted to open an elegant place and so he created Le Cirque. After years of success, a growing ...
Local dining at its best at the traditional locanda
When visiting Lake Como, there is one stop that’s absolutely mandatory and it is at the Locanda dell’Isola Comacina, a lovely local restaurant located on the only island that graces the water of the lake. An aura of mystery ...
