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10 Best Italian Restaurants in New York

New York City excels at many things, but one of its finest achievements: is Italian restaurants churning out Italian food. As the birthplace of red-sauce, Italian-American fare, there are plenty of top-notch options across the five boroughs.

In New York City, what could be more obvious an Italian influence than pizza? The New York slice is famous worldwide. But beyond the pie, Italian cuisine has evolved significantly in NYC.

Furthermore, New York City chef Sirio Maccioni invented Pasta Primavera while at the Canadian Summer home of the Italian Baron Carlo Amato.

From the West Village and the Lower East Side to Bushwick and Carroll Gardens, the best Italian restaurants in New York offer an embarrassment of riches.

There are places that have stood fast for a century as their neighbourhoods changed, sticking to their red sauce roots. There are white tablecloths and tasting menus that are the epitome of fine dining. And there may be more places serving fresh pasta here than there are people.

The best Italian restaurants in NYC draw inspiration from classic dishes while also adding modern, locally sourced touches. Below are the 10 best places where to eat Italian food in New York.

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Roberto鈥檚 modern Italian fare, served on a side street tucked away from the hubbub of the Bronx鈥檚 Little Italy, is a welcome contrast to the red-sauced Italian-American food common in the neighbourhood.

The wine list is more sophisticated, too, along with a menu that trumpets dishes like pasta and seasonal vegetables steamed 鈥渋n cartoccio,鈥� or in a foil pouch, as well as rabbit stewed with potatoes.

Roberto Paciullo, a native of Salerno, Italy, is behind the villa-esque Roberto鈥檚, where there鈥檚 not a meatball in sight.

603 Crescent Ave The Bronx, NY 10458

(718) 733-9503

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Frankies 457 Spuntino is a characteristically Brooklyn spot: warm and inviting, with exposed brick walls and a long wooden bar.

The best part, though, is the intimate backyard space, which is open on warm summer evenings.

Frankie’s is always full of locals (including families) who know their stuff when it comes to food and restaurants and is popular for an unplanned dinner or a very good brunch.

This means waits can be long, but everyone you ask will say it鈥檚 worth it. Even if you don’t order it for your main dish, be sure to get a plate of sweet potato and sage ravioli for the table.

457 Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11231

(718) 403-0033

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Joe Scaravella opened Enoteca Maria in 2007, it looked like he put a call out to central casting as Nonnas from 20 regions of Italy marched into the open kitchen to cook every single night.

As you might expect, each location and each woman shares her secret recipes with no one but will cook them to your delight 鈥� presenting it all in the way only a grandmother can.

But, like roses grandmothers are known by many names: nonnas, abuelitas, bubbes, and bunicas and yayas, so recently Enoteca began inviting Grandmothers from all over the world: Argentina, Belarus, Czech, Syria, Trinidad, and Peru.

Now imagine you’re having this experience on the banks of Staten Island – transporting you from one area of Italy or the world to another; culinary lifetimes served up on the plate in front of you, a feast from grandma’s hometown wherever it may be.

27 Hyatt St, Staten Island, NY 10301

(718) 447-2777

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Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli鈥檚 West Village restaurant have ushered in a new era for red sauce cooking with a supremely creative take on Italian-American fare.

 The duo knows how to present the unexpected with pasta, once packing caramelle pasta with pickled cantaloupe and oozy buffalo milk mozzarella.

They make a heck of garlic bread by stuffing sesame-seeded flatbread with stracchino and Parmesan. And the chefs have produced their own amaro out of sarsaparilla, resulting in a lightly boozy beverage that recalls root beer. Warning: Expect long waits if you haven鈥檛 secured a reservation.

103 Greenwich Ave New York, NY 10014

(212) 889-8884

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Blackboard specials supplement the small menu at this Italian spot known for its glamorous crowd.

Consistently packed since its 1992 opening, Bar Pitti is best known for its outdoor seating area, which spills onto the sidewalk along Sixth Avenue.

It鈥檚 an easy place to spot actors, models, rock stars, and socialites, but the food is great, too鈥攃ome for a strong offering of classics executed really well, with one of the city鈥檚 best Caprese salads.

It鈥檚 the perfect place to take out-of-town guests for an “only in New York” type of experience, where they’ll see a full cross-section of downtown denizens and get a great meal, to boot.

268 6th Ave, New York, NY 10014

(212) 982-3300

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Tracing its roots to Venice, Harry Cipriani’s NYC location is an almost exact duplicate of its transatlantic sister, Harry’s Bar, home of the Bellini cocktail.

Snag a seat at the bar, order the classic cocktail and dine like a Venetian on classic Italian bar snacks like steak tartare and beef carpaccio.

In the mood for something more substantial? Striped bass with lemon and capers or tagliatelle with fresh mushrooms will make diners wish for a Venetian sunset and romantic canals among the towering skyscrapers of 5th Avenue.

An upscale scene where an international crowd tucks into Italian food chased with Bellinis. 

781 5th Ave, New York, NY 10022

(212) 753-5566

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Marea, meaning “tide” in Italian is a perfectly balanced combination of an ingredients-driven, award-winning Italian menu, impeccable service and a fantastic wine list with more than 750 selections.

At the helm is Chef Michael White. Marea has earned three stars from The New York Times, two stars from Michelin, and a city of devoted regulars who claim that this is the best Italian seafood in the city.

Dishes like dressed blue prawns with carrot crisp and tarragon to share, or choose from the Crudo al Taglio, sliced raw fish and shellfish or choose from four different types of caviar.

Opt for the 4-course prix fixe, a modest affair that allows you to sample a crudo, pasta, entree and dessert.

240 Central Park S New York, NY 10019

(212) 582-5100

8.  I Sodi

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Unlike a bastion of French haute cuisine or an upmarket sushi den, the very best Italian restaurant, by our estimation, must be a neighbourhood restaurant 鈥� a place you can roll into with minimal forethought and grab a seat at the bar, order some well-sourced salumi and cheese or a perfect plate of pasta, and let the worries of the day dissipate with a bracingly bitter Negroni.

You can do all these things at I Sodi, Rita Sodi鈥檚 sleek, unfussy paean to the food she grew up eating in Tuscany: simple salads blanketed with cheese, pancetta-wrapped rabbit, seasonal specials like chestnut Tortelli, and a magnificent 20-odd-layer lasagna stacked up as neatly as a deck of cards.

The drinks and service are on point, the mood jovial but always civilized. There鈥檚 nowhere better to become a regular.

105 Christopher St., nr. Bleecker St.

(212) 414-5774

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This Williamsburg paean to pasta is in a former garage with exposed-beam wooden ceilings. Chef-owner Missy Robbins is one of New York鈥檚 finest pasta chefs.

People come here for all sorts of carby stuff: bolognese, gnocchi, and ravioli. Start, though, with some cacio e pepe fritelle, gorgeous fried balls decked out with salty cheese and pepper and move on to seafood, another Robbins strong suit.

Maybe today鈥檚 the day for grilled clams flecked with Calabrian chilies? Cured sardines with capers? It鈥檚 all good. But, the absolute must-order dish is the mafaldini, a rippled noodle spiked with pink peppercorns.

567 Union Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211

(718) 576-3095

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Visiting Luna Rossa is like booking a grand tour of Italy from north to south because Chef Paul Floess prides himself on his dexterity in producing specialities from Italy’s 20 regions.

Snuggle into this narrow space on the Upper East Side where diners are treated with old-world grace and charm, in a serene and romantic yet never starchy atmosphere.

The wine list also reflects regions from Apulia to Emilia Romagna to Sicily and Alto Adige. From milk-fed veal chop Milanese, to fresh branzino and think creative like fig gnocchi in sage butter, carpaccio and burrata.

This is a place where the staff is still key. Just a great intimate place where couples and families will feel exquisitely at home in a city filled with noisy gargantuan restaurants.

347 E 85th St New York, NY 10028

(212) 517-311

The problem with compiling a list of the best Italian restaurants in New York is that there may be more of them in NY than there are in Italy.

These days, it feels as if all of Italy is represented here, from rustic Tuscan dishes to saucy Sicilian specialities. This list has captured the best of the best Italian restaurants.