Word: osteria
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...bonhomie to be had at nearby brasserie Belleville, tel: (1-718) 832 9777. Finally, there are three restaurants that gastronomes shouldn't miss. The one-year-old Stone Park Café, tel: (1-718) 369 0082, serves a daring menu that includes tempura oysters and marrow bones; Convivium Osteria, tel: (1-718) 857 1833, marries Spanish, Italian and Portuguese dishes; and the Northern Italian Al di La, tel: (1-718) 783 4565, which is famous for its tripe appetizer, is the epitome of a cozy neighborhood restaurant. Do note that Al di La doesn't take reservations...
...bonhomie to be had at nearby brasserie Belleville, tel: (1-718) 832 9777. Finally, there are three restaurants that gastronomes shouldn't miss. The one-year-old Stone Park Café, tel: (1-718) 369 0082, serves a daring menu that includes tempura oysters and marrow bones; Convivium Osteria, tel: (1-718) 857 1833, marries Spanish, Italian and Portuguese dishes; and the Northern Italian Al di La, tel: (1-718) 783 4565, which is famous for its tripe appetizer, is the epitome of a cozy neighborhood restaurant. Do note that Al di La doesn't take reservations...
...Olive Garden, the delicious and reasonably priced Orlando, Fla.-based restaurant chain, has teamed up with an authentic Italian winery in a wonderful little osteria in Castellina in Chianti, right near Siena. It's called Olive Garden Riserva di Fizzano, and it provides all the bread you can eat. Make reservations...
Along the building's side, nestled amid real and artificial rocks and perfectly genuine umbrella pines, are a series of pavilions containing restaurants franchised from celebrated ones in New York, Boston and San Francisco, including two clones of Sirio Maccioni's operations, Le Cirque 2000 and Osteria del Circo. You drive up the side of the Lago di Comovegas and arrive at a gigantic porte cochere, patinated copper and glass, inspired by the vaults of Milan's Galleria. Beyond that stretches the foyer, acres of marble and mosaic floor. And the ceiling chandelier, the largest glass sculpture ever made...
...reported that Italy's domestic wine consumption had fallen from 100 liters per year per head before the war to a mere 70. The cause: high cost of living and a taste adulterated by foreign imports. "Before the war," sighed one expert, "when you went to a country osteria, you found only wine. Today you find beer, orangeade and Coca-Cola." A good percentage of Italy's young people, according to the government survey, even prefer plain water to their elders' wine...