12 New Italian Restaurants For You to Try

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.