New York Italian Restaurants

Pizza

1. Di Fara Pizzeria

Neighborhood: Brooklyn/Midwood

Good pizza is not hard to find in the city, or so i thought until i got to di fara one friday evening.  I had read the reviews, but was a skeptic.   Di fara excels, the pizza is light with good...

2. L&B Spumoni Gardens

of occasions, and I will give this place three thumbs up (three thumbs up, what's that?).  The ices and spumoni are good (i'm a sucker for pistachio) and the pizza is the best I've had in New York (so far...

3. Rosa's Pizza

Neighborhood: Queens/Ridgewood

Although I prefer Carlo's pizza in Middle Village, when in Ridgewood, this pizzeria is always a hit.  Like the Rosa's on 69th Street in Maspeth, there is a wide selection of pizzas and specialty...

4. Luzzo's

Neighborhood: Manhattan/East Village

Ya know, I'm just not feeling it.   Maybe it was the fact that my roommate and I ordered delivery.  Maybe we didn't order the right thing.  Maybe the delivery guy got lost and that's why my pizza...

5. Cafe Fiorello

Neighborhood: Manhattan/Upper West Side

First the negatives: - Tables and chairs, particularly on the sidewalk cafe, are spaced ridiculously close. - It's expensive  Now the positives: - The pizza is super.  It's super super thin...

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Pasta

1. Babbo Ristorante e…

Neighborhood: Manhattan/Greenwich Village

eggs. Weird obsession right?  If I hadn't been so full, I would've ordered the pasta tasting menu to really get the full spectrum of flavors this place has to offer. My pasta was delicious, but didn't...

2. Gradisca Restaurant

Neighborhood: Manhattan/West Village

The food was quite delicious. We started with one of the flatbreads and for the main courses we had the ricotta ravioli and the pasta filled with lobster. Both excellent. I would hold off on giving five...

3. Trattoria Trecolori

Neighborhood: Manhattan/Theater District

The ink pasta with pesce was incredible, particularly the pasta. Black noodles that weren't overwhelming but very rich in flavor. I had a veal (serrontino I think it was called) that was a little...

4. Dell'Anima

Neighborhood: Manhattan/West Village

brushed with olive oil.  Maybe a little messier than I would have liked, but delicious!  Four our entrees, I had a ricotta stuffed pasta with this creamy corn sauce - the pasta was perfectly chewy...

5. Lupa

Neighborhood: Manhattan/Greenwich Village

ordering was a little unconventional--my standard would consist of two "piatti primi," part of the "pasta" course of a full Italian meal, but perhaps their categorization of the menu was unconventional...

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