La Vela Dining and Bar, 558 Eleventh Ave., Hell’s Kitchen
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Open Since: October 1
Type of Cuisine: Italian
This gourmet Italian eatery specializes wood-fired pizza from Naples as well as tantalizing seafood and pasta options like brick-oven-grilled octopus in honey ginger sauce and gnocchi drenched in white truffle cream and parsley. They also do brunch.
Mezzogiorno, 2791 Broadway, Upper West Side
Open Since: November 12, 2015
Type of Cuisine: Italian
The popular SoHo restaurant Mezzogiorno has opened a second outpost uptown, on Broadway at West 107th Street. There’s a full range of grilled meats and fish in the $22 to $30 range, but those wanting a more affordable meal can dive into the extensive pizza menu. The uptown restaurant opened this fall and is currently open for dinner after 5 p.m.
Service Station, 500 E. 62nd St., Upper East Side
Open Since: November 2015
Type of Cuisine: Italian, Pizza
Service Station’s menu is built by an Italian-born chef, whose pizza has won awards and its cocktail menu includes adult milkshakes, among others. The new restaurant is in a former Mobil gas station and its servers wear custom-tailored mechanic suits.
Love and Dough, 57 Pearl St., DUMBO
Open Since: December 14, 2015
Type of Cuisine: Italian
Archway Cafe’s Arthur Hassani is bringing authentic Neapolitan pizza to the Pearl Street Triangle with his newest venture Love and Dough. The kitchen is manned by award-winning celebrity chef Giuseppe Manco, originally from Napoli, who took home the title of best Italian-style pizza at the 2014 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas. The thin-crust, brick oven pizza doesn’t get any fresher with dough made daily with imported Caputo flour from Napoli. Homemade pastas, Mediterranean salads and sweet Italian desserts round out the menu for a true Neapolitan feast.
Capri Ristorante, 145 Mulberry St., Little Italy
Type of cuisine: Italian from the island of Capri
Open since: March 19
With a star chef from Italy and a sommelier from the island of Capri, Capri Ristorante is about an authentic as it gets. The seafood-driven menu will offer a rotating catch of the day, delivered fresh every morning. Pasta dishes and veal and chicken parm are also on deck for non-seafood eaters.
Zio Luigi, 42-13 Queens Blvd., Sunnyside
Italian restaurant, which had been in business just 3 days, reopens after fire#sunnysidehttps://t.co/RyeKJHO1jk pic.twitter.com/2oS3fNlkgb
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Open since: January 4
Type of cuisine: Italian
This Italian eatery finally reopened earlier this month following a kitchen fire in November, which took place just three days after its original debut, according to the Sunnyside Post. The restaurant serves up fresh pasta dishes and other Italian cuisine.
Della, 1238 Prospect Ave., Windsor Terrace
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Open since: Late December 2015
Type of cuisine: Italian
The restaurant revival of Windsor Terrace continues with the addition of Della, a cozy Italian eatery serving house-made pastas ($18 for saffron tagliatelle with chorizo, piquillo peppers and pecorino cheese) and main dishes such as roasted eggplant ($17), hangar steak ($18), and branzino with smoky lentils, pickled veggies and charred lemon ($19).
Tuscan Kitchen, 2308 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd, Harlem
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Open Since: Mid-January
Type of Cuisine: Italian
A small coffee shop, bakery, deli and Italian market that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. You can order a cappuccino to go sit down in a small table and enjoy Italian pastries.
Antico Noé, 220 E. 53rd St. between Second and Third avenues, Midtown
Open Since: February 29
Type of Cuisine: Tuscan panini
Come grab a panino — “panini” is plural! — straight from Florence at the first Stateside location of a 70-year-old Florentine sandwich shop.
Aunt Jake’s, 151 Mulberry St., Little Italy
Open Since: Late January
Type of Cuisine: Italian Take-Out
From the chef and owner of nearby Mulberry Project and Greenwich Project comes Aunt Jake’s Italian Specialties, a two-story counter-service eatery serving up six different kinds of homemade pastas and sauces daily, to eat-in cafe-style or take out. Entrees range in price from $9 to $15 and the kitchen serves up breakfast, lunch and dinner is served 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily.
Cipollina Gourmet, 116-09 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills
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Open Since: December 2015
Type of Cuisine: Italian
Cipollina, a gourmet Italian market, which opened in Forest Hills in December, recently started serving soups and sandwiches, in addition to a large selection of coffees and pastries. Patrons can grab lunch and dessert to go or enjoy their meal at the store’s seating area. Cipollina serves different soups each day.
Pizzeria Sirenetta, 568 Amsterdam Ave., Upper West Side
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Open Since: February 2
Type of Cuisine: Pizza and Pasta
The husband and wife duo behind The Mermaid Inn, Danny Abrams and Cindy Smith, have opened a new pizzeria next door to their popular uptown seafood spot. In addition to serving up Neapolitan-style pizzas from a wood-fired oven, there are pasta and meat dishes and creative antipasti options, such as their fried potatoes with capers, scallions and lemon yogurt.