italian food

Big, beautiful Cafe Carmellini is NYC’s most delightful new restaurant — melding the glam Gilded Age & go-go 1980s

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Big, beautiful Cafe Carmellini is NYC’s most delightful new restaurant — melding the glam Gilded Age & go-go 1980s

Big, beautiful and booming Cafe Carmellini is the city’s most delightful, crowd-pleasing new restaurant in ages. It brings back the joyful New York before Covid-19, illegal pot shops and the migrant invasion. It’s a miraculous marriage of the19th Century Gilded Age and Wall Street’s junk-bond era, but without 1880s social snobbery or 1980s excess. The brasserie swirls nightly … Read more

‘Sopranos’ writers named character Johnny Sack after this local NYC pizza place

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‘Sopranos’ writers named character Johnny Sack after this local NYC pizza place

They gave them a slice of the mob action. The writers of “The Sopranos” ate the pizza and pasta from Sac’s Place in Queens so often that they named one of the show’s key characters after the joint’s owners. The show’s Mafia underboss-turned boss John Sacrimoni, also known as Johnny Sack, was named in honor … Read more

Dying to get in: Wannabe diners pull crazy stunts for a seat at NYC hotspot Roscioli, even dodging an ER visit

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Dying to get in: Wannabe diners pull crazy stunts for a seat at NYC hotspot Roscioli, even dodging an ER visit

The pasta is to die for. Last week, “Bright Lights Big City” author Jay McInerney almost ignored a hospital’s call to go to the ER immediately, after a CAT scan looked worrisome. McInerney, who had undergone brain surgery two weeks prior, wondered if he couldn’t grab dinner first — he had an impossible-to-score reservation at … Read more

The hottest new performance in NYC: Pasta makers show off in cafe’s front window

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The hottest new performance in NYC: Pasta makers show off in cafe’s front window

They’re noodling around — for all to see. At Travelers Poets & Friends, a new cafe in the West Village, the women making the fresh pasta are taking centerstage, working at a huge front window and showcasing their craft to passerby on Sixth Avenue “It’s like a performance.” said Mary Delaney, 70, who lives in … Read more

Is garlic really that good for your health? Everything you need to know

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Is garlic really that good for your health? Everything you need to know

All-ium aboard. New Yorkers eat a lot of garlic, and even if we don’t, its unmistakable scent — filling the streets courtesy of the thousands of pizzerias and Italian restaurants feeding the five boroughs — is a part of our daily lives. And there’s another thing we take for granted, along with ubiquity — generations of Tri-Staters … Read more

Fishy ‘Situation’: ‘Jersey Shore’s Mike Sorrentino eats this seven-course feast on Xmas morning

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Fishy ‘Situation’: ‘Jersey Shore’s Mike Sorrentino eats this seven-course feast on Xmas morning

Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino upholds the Italian-American tradition of the Feast of the Seven Fishes on Christmas Eve — and his seafood dinner is so nice, he eats it twice, including the next morning. “On Christmas Day for breakfast I have Christmas Eve’s dinner, which is usually crab [in] linguine sauce, also with shrimp oreganata, also calamari … Read more

Mario Batali rants he’s done with New York because of ‘a**holes’ during online comeback bid

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Mario Batali rants he’s done with New York because of ‘a**holes’ during online comeback bid

Mario Batali has parted ways with the Big Apple for good, ranting, “there’s enough a**holes — I’m done with that town.” The chef who was once a Manhattan fixture launched the tirade during his first public return to cooking on screen Friday, in a livestream of his virtual cooking show “Molto A Casa,” from his … Read more

Mario Batali launches carefully-crafted comeback 

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Mario Batali launches carefully-crafted comeback 

He’s cooking again. After being publicly silent since 2017, when several women accused him of sexual assault and harassment, Mario Batali is planning a controversial comeback with a series of virtual cooking events in early December. The Post can exclusively report that the 63-year-old celebrity chef is working with veteran media producer Karen Kapnick on … Read more

Food to eat based on your zodiac sign — from pineapple to pickles

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Food to eat based on your zodiac sign — from pineapple to pickles

Greek physician and service-oriented sage Hippocrates has been quoted as saying, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” On Oct. 24, we celebrate Hippo daddy’s decree with National Food Day. Revived by The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) in 2011, National Food Day recognizes healthy, affordable and sustainable sustenance, as well … Read more

The 25 most exciting new restaurants to hit NYC this fall

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The 25 most exciting new restaurants to hit NYC this fall

This autumn, the new restaurant openings nearly outnumber falling leaves. The grim warnings of 2020 — dining-out was dead, life would forever be limited to takeout and delivery in foam containers — now seem foolish. The incoming class has something for everyone. The biggest kitchen names are back — Vongerichten, Boulud, Carmellini, Samuelsson, Forgione, Bloomfield. … Read more

Take the (caviar) cannoli: Soho’s buzzy Sartiano’s is on its way to glory

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Take the (caviar) cannoli: Soho’s buzzy Sartiano’s is on its way to glory

Put Zero Bond club king Scott Sartiano in charge of an iconic dining venue — previously Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Mercer Kitchen — hire famed chef Alfred Portale as your culinary director, and what do you get? Caviar cannoli, for one thing. The “wowee-look-at-me” item on Sartiano’s otherwise normal-sounding menu is a step up from Portale’s idea of Italian … Read more

Hot #TomatoGirl summer has New York women living la dolce veggie

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Hot #TomatoGirl summer has New York women living la dolce veggie

Adrianne Paerels, a 31-year-old artist and Hoboken native, wears what she eats. She grew up feasting on her grandmother’s spaghetti pomodoro, which inspired her to start making whimsical pants decorated with cans of tomatoes, boxes of pasta and tins of olive oil. “I turned to my pantry,” Paerels says of the pants, which she sells … Read more

I’m a food label expert — this popular pesto has a ‘fishy’ warning

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I’m a food label expert — this popular pesto has a ‘fishy’ warning

Walmart’s Great Value traditional basil pesto may not be worth every penne for those allergic to shellfish. TikTok user Paden Ferguson, 31, from Tulsa, Oklahoma — whose account is devoted to reviewing food labels — stunned viewers with a clip pointing out that the chain’s pesto comes with an advisory that it “may contain traces … Read more

NYC restaurants impose 90-minute time limits on diners: ‘Out of control’

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NYC restaurants impose 90-minute time limits on diners: ‘Out of control’

A few weeks ago, Christina Izzo, 33, was out with a couple of friends at Ye’s Apothecary, a Szechuan restaurant and speakeasy that opened in NYC’s Chinatown last year. They asked to order some more food — the restaurant serves a menu of $12 to $15 small plates — but were told they couldn’t: The … Read more

This is NYC’s most thrilling new restaurant — and it’s in a mall

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This is NYC’s most thrilling new restaurant — and it’s in a mall

The most thrilling new uptown restaurant since anybody first heard of COVID-19 is in a shopping mall — believe it or not. Bad Roman at Deutsche Bank (née Time Warner) Center, from the Quality Branded team (Smith & Wollensky, Quality Bistro) touts “inauthentic twists on authentic Italian dishes.” But the real twist is what Midtown has … Read more

Why NYC diners hate kids at restaurants: ‘The suburbs is for that’

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Why NYC diners hate kids at restaurants: ‘The suburbs is for that’

On a Friday night around 8p.m. in the West Village, Julia Foster and her boyfriend Brandon were just about to indulge in a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon in the candle lit dining room of Via Carota. The couple had been apart for weeks as Brandon travelled for his work as a golfer, and they were looking … Read more

TikTok’s Pasta Queen calls out Kim Kardashian’s tortellini ‘blasphemy’

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TikTok’s Pasta Queen calls out Kim Kardashian’s tortellini ‘blasphemy’

Nadia Caterina Munno, a k a “Pasta Queen,” assumed her semolina-flour throne by accident. In February 2020, the 36-year-old mom of four was deleting the TikTok app from daughter Desiree’s phone when she stumbled on a problematic lasagna-making video. Watery noodles and random bits of food were being thoughtlessly tossed in a pan. “I was … Read more

‘House of the Dragon’ stars stirred up this cocktail —and NYC bartenders can’t make them fast enough

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‘House of the Dragon’ stars stirred up this cocktail —and NYC bartenders can’t make them fast enough

Time to brush up on your Italian. New York bartenders are reporting a significant rise in bad attempts at pronunciation, now that the Negroni sbagliato, a classic aperitivo invented by accident decades ago, has rather suddenly come back into style. The libation went viral on TikTok earlier this week, thanks to a sexy sound bite … Read more