italian food

At NYC hot spot Il Gradino, it's mix, match and mangia!

Il 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

Even celebs can't resist a comforting, creamy pasta.

Mamma mia! 'Italy's No. 1 brand of pasta' made in Iowa: lawsuit

The 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

"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

Divine 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

You don't end up in a "Godfather" movie for nothing.

'The Godfather' not welcome at famed San Gennaro Feast in Little Italy

“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

Meow-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

Italian 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

A 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'

The 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

If 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

With 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

As 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

The 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

Every 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

Il 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

Mozzafiato 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

A 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

A 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...