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BuonItalia

Posted in Restaurant and Product Reviews on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Guanciale at BuonItalia in Chelsea Market. I lament the demise of the old-fashioned provolone-stinking Italian grocery store of my childhood. Such places certainly still exist on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, but as far as Manhattan goes, I don’t know. I can’t think of one. Faicco’s on Bleecker Street? DiPalo? Those are great shops, but [...]

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Wine and Calamari at Aroma in the East Village

Posted in Restaurant and Product Reviews on July 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Happy customers at Aroma’s bar. Aroma is a fine bar and intimate caffé with a name that doesn’t sound as good in English as it does in Italian, even though it’s the same word. I suppose they could have done worse. They could have called it Smell, or Stink. Luckily the aroma when you walk [...]

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Sticking to Your Italian Diet on Waverly Place

Posted in Restaurant and Product Reviews on March 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Chianti at Morandi. If you can handle big noise, Tuscany-by-way-of-Disneyland décor (featuring walls of Chianti basket bottles that they serve carafe wines in), and a rambunctious (and very tall) crowd (including the designer Betsey Johnson on my last visit, but she’s not so tall), Morandi, Keith McNally’s year-old restaurant in the West Village, is worth [...]

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