In the dawn of the 1980s, Nicola Marzovilla was a humble workaday ladieswear salesman with a dream: to make New Yorkers know and love the cuisine of his homeland, Puglia, Italy.
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Participating restaurants across the country will feature a unique Taste America Local Dish on their menus from September 1–October 31 to help raise money for a local food charity.
His parents might have had a string of heart palpitations when Dan Amatuzzi graduated with a shiny degree in Economics from Villa Nova and told them he wanted to sniff corks for a living, but after he made the list of Forbe’s 30 Under 30 to watch in 2012, they realized their son with the big grin and shock of premature grays had found his passion. Now the 29-year-old is Joe Bastianich’s right-hand wine man, handling the not-so-small job of Wine Director for the entire of Eataly.
Thoughtful experimentation takes the lead on this new bar’s menu.
Recently, when Stephen and I sought refuge from the frigid avenue in a dark-lacquered, high-backed booth at Talde in Park Slope, there were several clues we had come to the right place.
On Madison Avenue, a new home for a very old chocolatier.
Riverpark restaurant turned a stalled construction site into city salad.
Chelsea Brewing Company is the lone survivor of Manhattan’s brewpub boom.
For this Long Island boy Brooklyn sometimes seems endless. Like when you can exit the Bedford Avenue L station in Williamsburg, as we did last week, and head half a mile south on Wythe Avenue and come upon a whole neighborhood of little food shops and new and renovated condos that didn’t seem to exist a few years go. Perhaps its this vast newness–realtors citywide, we’re told, are now pushing the part of Williamsburg called the Southside–that was part of the inspiration for Isa on South Second Street.
