italian food
At NYC hot spot Il Gradino, it's mix, match and mangia!
November 16, 2022 | 7:12amIl Gradino, which opened last spring on New York's Upper East Side, is packed night and day with restaurant lovers.
TikTok's Pasta Queen reveals recipes Kylie Jenner, Drew Barrymore go 'crazy' for
November 7, 2022 | 7:37pmEven celebs can't resist a comforting, creamy pasta.
Mamma mia! 'Italy's No. 1 brand of pasta' made in Iowa: lawsuit
October 20, 2022 | 1:16pmThe Barilla pasta brand may portray itself as being more Italian than linguini and clams sauce, but a new lawsuit complains that the company actually makes its noodles in Iowa...
'House of the Dragon' stars stirred up this cocktail —and NYC bartenders can't make them fast enough
October 14, 2022 | 6:28pm"I was kind of surprised, because I arrived here a year ago and people didn’t even know what it was," said one Italian bartender.
New luxe hotels and dining prove that Providence, RI, isn't just for students
September 22, 2022 | 6:15pmDivine Providence: Off-the-radar dining is in season across Rhode Island’s cozy capital city.
Meet the sausage 'queen' of NYC's San Gennaro Feast
September 16, 2022 | 4:27pmYou don't end up in a "Godfather" movie for nothing.
'The Godfather' not welcome at famed San Gennaro Feast in Little Italy
September 10, 2022 | 10:22am“We don’t need people thinking that the mob is running the feast," quipped John Fratta, a member of the committee that runs the iconic Little Italy festival, held from Sept....
Purina's Fancy Feast expands into human cuisine, to open NYC pop-up restaurant
August 1, 2022 | 3:07pmMeow-ma mia! You'll be licking your lips and paws and after this dinner.
Agata & Valentina launch new gluten-free market for its famed pastas, pizzas, breads
July 7, 2022 | 3:56pmItalian gourmet market Agata & Valentina has been called “New York’s original Eataly.” But its celebrated pasta, pizza, breads and prepared dishes remained mostly off-limits to gluten-intolerant sufferers of celiac disease...
A terrifying olive oil shortage could be in the future
June 13, 2022 | 2:47pmA slew of ongoing issues -- both biological and logistical -- have been drizzling trouble over the olive oil industry for the better half of the past decade, according to...
Posh NYC restaurants ditch garlic: 'It's Italian-American, not Italian'
April 14, 2022 | 6:20pmThe city's swankiest Italian spots are cutting down on garlic — or doing away with it altogether — to please finicky clientele.
NYC's best new restaurants: power lunches, hot scenes and date spots
April 8, 2022 | 5:02pmIf New York is dead, who is eating at the spectacular new spots popping up all over town?
'Sopranos' stars and Rudy Giuliani spill the sauce on NYC icon Forlini's
April 7, 2022 | 5:40pmWith NYC's Italian restaurant icon shuttered, Michael Imperioli, Steve Schirripa, Rudy Giuliani and other regulars remember the saucy scene that made Forlini's special.
Inside Mario Batali's restaurant empire 5 years after the scandal that rocked NYC
March 24, 2022 | 8:32pmAs the city and its restaurants come back to life post-Covid, the impact of Batali and his cancellation is still being reckoned with.
Truck carrying $20K of gnocchi stolen from restaurant
December 6, 2021 | 10:54amThe carb-craving crook fled in the Toyota truck as a delivery driver was carrying box loads of pasta into the Gnocchi Gnocchi Brothers restaurant in Brisbane at about midnight.
Meat cute: Carne Mare brings Tuscan tastes to NYC steak
November 3, 2021 | 2:51pmEvery restaurant season needs a superstar new dish that enchants customers and critics alike. In the resurgent second half of 2021, that dish is gorgonzola-cured, 12-ounce wagyu strip loin at Carne...
Chew on this: NYC's bars and restaurants are making a comeback
October 26, 2021 | 11:17amIl Postino, a two-decade fixture of Midtown East, almost went under. When the Waldorf Astoria, a key source of covers, was shuttering for a condo conversion, Il Postino owner Luigi...
The Mozzafiato collection connects the world to the heart of Italian beauty
October 25, 2021 | 5:59pmMozzafiato is a high-end online retail platform that assembles Italy’s best beauty products in one place. Italy’s rich history and heritage with beauty can often seem elusive and inaccessible to...
Original Bobby Van's building in Bridgehampton trades for $7.5M
October 7, 2021 | 1:28pmA high-end Italian restaurant is going into the space at 2402 Montauk Highway, which housed pizza hot spot World Pie after Bobby Van's closed in 1980.
Stuy Town is getting its own Italian restaurant
April 28, 2021 | 1:32pmA major-league restaurant team will open Rosemary’s East, a jumbo sister eatery to the West Village’s popular Rosemary on Greenwich Avenue, next week at 350 First Ave. at East 20th...