With a fondness for red sauce, this Staten Island staple of Italian cuisine offers almost as many options as there are cables in the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Continue Reading / Buy a Print
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Italian
I Sodi
You want good Italian food? Scratch that. You want good food, period? Continue Reading / Buy a Print
John’s of 12th Street
This East Village favorite has been serving classic red-sauce Italian since 1908. Continue Reading / Buy a Print
Dante
The beloved Village institution Caffe Dante closed in the spring of 2015, but new owners took over a few weeks later. Continue Reading / Buy a Print
Po
Today happens to be Thanksgiving in the year of 2017, which has nothing to do with this old West Village favorite. Continue Reading / Buy a Print
Patsy’s Italian Restaurant
“I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a prophet, a poet, a pawn and a king,” Frank Sinatra famously sang. Continue Reading / Buy a Print
Gersi
Perfectly exemplifying the definition of a trattoria — a family-owned, casual, neighborhood restaurant offering delicious, fresh, local food — Carroll Gardens’ Gersi opened in the summer of 2016. Continue Reading / Buy a Print
Scalinatella
A sentimental favorite on the Upper East Side, Scalinatella is known for its high-end, old-school take on Italian. Continue Reading / Buy a Print
Bar Toto
This South-Slope staple for family-pleasing Italian has long been a favorite haunt of Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose house is half a block away. Continue Reading / Buy a Print
Antonio’s Trattoria
A fan of my work recently asked me to draw this Italian restaurant in the Bronx. Continue Reading / Buy a Print
