Naples (Italy)

Roberto Rossellini's Voyage to Italy Journeys the Fragility of a Marriage

Our 10 Best Upper West Side Restaurants

Topped with bacon, slaw, and fried green tomatoes and sided with cheese grits, the fried chicken biscuit sandwich at Jacob's Pickles A score of years ago the Upper West Side was known as one of the worst dining neighborhoods in the city. Well, what happened? You may trace the transformation back t ... More >>

Terrence McNally's Not-so Golden Night at the Opera

The playwright heads backstage with Bellini

Nathan's Famous, Totonno's Pizzeria Napolitano Still Shuttered After Storm

Nathan's Famous has been dark for nearly two weeks -- perhaps for the first time in its 96-year history. Today I took a bicycle tour of Coney Island, Brighton Beach, and Sheepshead Bay. Those areas of Brooklyn along the Atlantic Coast are more devastated than has been reported. One stumbles on par ... More >>

100 Reasons to Eat and Drink Downtown Today (and Tomorrow, and the Day After That)

Last week, we did a lot of reporting on restaurants operating in the dark, doing whatever they could to provide light and food to those who needed it. We checked in on our review restaurants, both of which happened to be in blackout zones, and found one had stayed open all week, while the other floo ... More >>

Mozzarella in Carrozza, Italian or Italian-American?

The app called Carrozza at East Village pizzeria Nicoletta is Dish #8 in our countdown. Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in each day (weekends too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team. [See More 100 Dishes: Mozzarella in ... More >>

Burrata From Faicco's, and How It Got There

Burrata is Dish #38 in our countdown (serving suggestion shown) Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in every day (weekends, too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team. Edward Faicco from Sorrento, Italy -- just southwest of Na ... More >>

Cannes Film Festival: Did Berlusconi Turn Italy Into a Reality Show?

Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking abou ... More >>

Zero Otto Nove: Rabbit, Run!

A Salerno-style spot does both Belmont and the Flatiron district

This Week in the Voice: Sandhogs Under Second Avenue

This week in the Voice, out today: Sean Manning follows the Second Avenue sandhogs: "Here for 470 million years there had been rock, there are now two 20-foot diameter, butter-smooth concrete tubes--a giant, mile-long double-barrel shotgun buried 100 feet below the Upper East Side... Scant attention ... More >>

Our 10 Best West Village Restaurants, 2012 Edition

Uniting egg and eggplant, possibly for the first time -- the sabich sandwich at Taim Despite a plethora of overpriced and pretentious restaurants, the West Village is still one of the damned best places to eat in the city in nearly every price range. And here's the list to prove it. Note that ther ... More >>

Our 10 Best East Village Restaurants, 2012 Edition

These chicken chile guajillo enchiladas at Downtown Bakery are every bit as good -- and spicy -- as they look. The East Village may be the city's most eclectic and rewarding dining destination, though this aspect of the neighborhood is sometimes eclipsed by its bars and cocktail lounges. You can d ... More >>

Best in Show: Ward Shelley at Pierogi

Plus: Ryan Sullivan at Maccarone; 'Peripheral Visions' at Hunter College

11 Most Astonishing Dishes of 2011, NYC

​Truffle chawan mushi from EN Japanese Brasserie (click on image to enlarge) What does it mean to call a dish "astonishing"? Well, it has to be beautiful to look at, innovative within its canon, and perfectly executed. It has to surprise as well as satisfy. Such a designation can occur only ... More >>

5 Great Wines Under $15: Reds

​Mas de Gourgonniere, Le Baux-de-Provence (2009) T'is the time of the year when oenophiles (as distinguished from onanists) give each other gifts of wine, and dinner hosts impress their friends by decanting bottles that drink much better than the price paid for them. In other words, the gr ... More >>

Old Vs. New: An Early Report on Food at the San Gennaro Festival, 2011

​April Bloomfield of The Breslin is one of the new food saints at the Feast of San Gennaro, and this delicious pork tonnato sandwich is her benediction. For over 100 years, the street scarf at New York City's Italian religious festivals remained the same: hot or sweet pork sausages, grilled ... More >>

Movers & Shakers: More Foreign Transplants and One New York Export

photo by Liz BarclayGoing to Miami.​It's that time of year again, when the food media begin to obsess and chitter over the restaurants set to open in the fall. Among the forthcoming newcomers is more than a handful of foreign transplants, restaurants from other countries that hope to translate ... More >>

Godard's Sensuous State of the Union in Film Socialisme

Five Dishes Worth Traveling From Anywhere To Get

​The steamed fish head with pickled chili sauce is a Hunanese miracle. Reviewing restaurants requires a long lag time, and two or three months often separate the first time I visit a place and when the critique appears in print. But sometimes, dishes are so exciting, that I can't wait to tel ... More >>

900 Degrees Will Make Every Style of Pizza Imaginable

Tony's Pizza Napoletana900 Degrees' San Francisco progenitor.​Well, at least they're thorough: 900 Degrees, a pizzeria serving Neapolitan, Roman, and New York-style pizza, will open on Seventh Avenue South next week.

A Detail About Mob-Pizzeria Connections That New York Magazine Missed

​Why is the cheese on my neighborhood slice so awful? In connection with the slashing of Lucali's Mark Iacono, a piece in this week's New York magazine Intelligencer details the connections between mobsters and pizza parlors - cutely configured as a slice of pizza. In a sidebar, the article ... More >>

Lievito Does Frank Pizza

Plus other unrepentant doings at this new Northern Italian joint

Resto Apocalypse Reversed on Hudson Street

​ 581 Hudson Street -- Before: Most recently occupied by Italian restaurant Valdino West, and 30 years before that by Trattoria D'Alfredo, a favoite of James Beard's; After: Now occupied by Mediterranean restaurant Meme (not to be confused with the Philadelphia restaurant of the same name), wh ... More >>

Five Curious Culinary Christmas Customs

​How about some eels for Christmas dinner? Get 'em on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg. You think fruitcake and eggnog are strange? You think houses made of gingerbread are weird? Read on about some even more off-the-wall Christmas dining habits.

Our 10 Worst Foodie Xmas Presents

​Awful Gift #10: Stonerware Apron With Marijuana-Leaf Imprint, Broadway Panhandler Everyone knows that chefs like to get stoned (or "baked" as the apron has it), which helps relieve the tedium of chopping vegetables for hours at a time. But this guy doesn't need to wear an apron to show us he' ... More >>

10 Nominations for 2010 World Cup Anthems Better Than Shakira's "Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)"

We defy you to unironically enjoy this song. The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa kicks off on June 11th. Sports-wise, the tournament promises to be thrilling, with 32 teams from around the world pitting their varied domestic styles and approaches to the game against each other in a bid to deci ... More >>

Mile End Brings Montreal to Brooklyn

Boerum Hill gets a smoky, meaty taste of Quebec

Street Angel

Our 10 Best West Village Restaurants

​This cryptic facade on Sixth Avenue refuses to identify itself to the passing rabble. What restaurant is it? Such a profusion of restaurants and small cafes the West Village offers! Though the opportunities for budget dining have dwindled the last few years, as pirates like Marc Jacobs and R ... More >>

Yes in My Backyard: Download Hollands' "Air Conditioned Heart"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Washington Heights freak-poppers Hollands are a cheery mix of folk, punk, and free-noise. Both frontman John-Paul Norpoth and violinist Jannina Barefield have laid down some sessions on various Akro ... More >>

Gambling and Gourmandizing at Colandrea New Corner Restaurant

Red and alive in Brooklyn's Dyker Heights

Robin Hood Rests

Front Street Pizza joint discovers a new region of Italy

Maysles Archives

Filmmaker Al Maysles moves offices; you win

The Meaning of Mulberry

Italian festival proves if you're south of Canal for dinner, stick with Chinatown

I Was Bourne, But . . .

Matt Damon's one-man death squad goes out for revenge and copes with imagery seizures

What Price Youth?

Native heirloom performers and foreign visitors channeling the Beats lure summer crowds

Worth the Splurge

Top 100 Italian Restaurants

Downtown Express

25 movies to catch at the Tribeca Film Festival

O.D.'ing on Beauty

These fine jewels don't rest on black velvet; they spin, glistening in the fire of dance

Life and Times

DiCorcia Mines History, Both Personal and Universal, for an Unconventional Retrospective

Another Little Italy

Theater

Two-Story House and Garage

Make Noise Not War

A Peace Movement Grows in New York and Beyond

Theater

Midsummer Night’s Read

Beach Fare with an Edge

Totò Recall

Street-Fighting Man

The Gothic Revival