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Italian•Crown Heights•value
Crown Heights Pasta
Crown Heights Pasta is an easy italian option in Crown Heights in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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10.0
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Best Italian Restaurants in New York: 92 Picks for 2026
New York's Italian restaurants set the American benchmark, and the city's range is unmatched — Lilia and Don Angie for the modern pasta canon, Carbone for the red-sauce revival done at full theatre, Via Carota for the neighbourhood bistro every other city tries to copy. No cuisine is more central to how New York eats.
92 restaurantsAvg rating 9.1moderate – valueUpdated July 2026
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Top Italian picks in New York
Fast answers for diners comparing italian restaurants in New York. These first picks are sorted from live restaurant data and editorial fit.
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Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
RUA Thai - Thai Restaurant Brooklyn
RUA Thai - Thai Restaurant Brooklyn is the kind of italian room in Carroll Gardens you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.8
Based on 1576 reviews
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Italian•Upper East Side•splurge
Giulietta
Giulietta is a sensible italian call in Upper East Side in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
Special occasionspecial occasionbusiness dinner
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9.8
Based on 991 reviews
4
Italian•Tribeca•splurge
Osteria Carlina Tribeca
Osteria Carlina arrives in Tribeca with something rarer than a good wine list: a room that appears to know exactly what it is.
upscaledinnerdate night
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9.8
Based on 909 reviews
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Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
Aromi
Aromi arrives on Court Street with a clear sense of where it comes from: the name itself is a tribute to grandparents' gardens — the fruit trees, the herbs, the vegetables grown for the table — and that founding story isn't just marketin…
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.8
Based on 753 reviews
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Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
Cremini's
Carroll Gardens doesn't need another red-sauce amnesia trip, and creminis seems to know it.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.8
Based on 423 reviews
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Italian•NoHo•moderate
House of Domes
House of Domes has a thesis, and it commits to it fully: dining as theatrical ritual, with Tuscan craft at the center and a room designed to make the evening feel chosen.
stylishdinnerdate night
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9.8
Based on 197 reviews
8
Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
6 Restaurant - NYC
6 Restaurant - NYC is a italian pick in Carroll Gardens in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned. Tiger Bread with cultured butter, garlic confit and Bitterballen with dijon mustard also give you a decent sense of the menu.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.8
Based on 110 reviews
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Piccolo MORINI
Piccolo MORINI is a italian restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
hidden gem
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9.8
Based on 36 reviews
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Italian•NoHo•moderate
La Pecora Bianca SoHo
Here's the thing about La Pecora Bianca SoHo: it's a bright, busy room that knows exactly what it is, which is not always a place built for two.
stylishdinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 6399 reviews
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Italian•West Village•moderate
Osteria Nonnino
Osteria Nonnino suits a night out in West Village when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
Date nightdate nightdinner
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9.6
Based on 4060 reviews
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Italian•Upper East Side•splurge
La Pecora Bianca UES
La Pecora Bianca's Upper East Side location occupies a corner of the market-driven Italian category that the neighbourhood has historically underserved.
Special occasionspecial occasionbusiness dinner
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9.6
Based on 2662 reviews
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Italian•Chelsea•moderate
Da Andrea Chelsea
Da Andrea has spent years building a reputation as Chelsea's most reliable answer for Emilia-Romagna cooking — the pasta-forward, northern Italian tradition that prioritizes technique and generosity over trend-chasing.
Gallery nightdate nightgroup dinner
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9.6
Based on 1962 reviews
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Italian•Nolita•moderate
Nolita Pizza
Nolita Pizza is the kind of italian room in Nolita you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Nolita dinnerdate nightdinner
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9.6
Based on 1440 reviews
15
Italian•Chelsea•moderate
Lulla NYC
Lulla NYC is the kind of italian room in Chelsea you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Gallery nightdate nightgroup dinner
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9.6
Based on 937 reviews
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Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
Untable
Untable seats thirty-six people — twenty-six of them in a room so compact the tables are almost conspiratorial — and yet it reportedly drew lines down Carroll Gardens blocks that the neighborhood hadn't seen in years.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.6
Based on 207 reviews
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Italian•Nolita•moderate
Boni and Mott
Boni & Mott is the kind of Nolita room that earns its place on the street by being unambiguous about what it is.
Nolita dinnerdate nightdinner
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9.6
Based on 203 reviews
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Bar Rocco
Bar Rocco is, at bottom, a vanity project that earns its keep — and that's meant as a compliment.
hidden gemdate night
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9.6
Based on 154 reviews
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La Pecora Bianca NoMad
La Pecora Bianca NoMad is a dependable italian option in Flatiron that a lot of diners already know and return to. Local Burrata and Fritto Misto also give you a decent sense of the menu.
Business dinnerbusiness dinnerlunch
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9.4
Based on 6244 reviews
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Italian•Fort Greene•moderate
Evelina
Evelina is a italian restaurant in Fort Greene in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinnercool
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9.4
Based on 1522 reviews
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Italian•Park Slope•value
Scottadito Osteria Toscana
Scottadito Osteria Toscana occupies a particular lane in Park Slope's dining landscape that few Italian rooms dare to claim: romantic without being precious, Tuscan without being a museum piece, and priced at a level where ordering acros…
Neighborhood classicsfamily dinnerbrunch
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9.4
Based on 1181 reviews
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La Voglia NYC
La Voglia occupies a generous stretch of Third Avenue at 92nd, a block from the Y, and the room itself makes a case before the food arrives: 150 indoor seats, retractable windows, 80 more on the patio.
Special occasionspecial occasionbusiness dinner
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9.4
Based on 1109 reviews
23
Italian•Upper West Side•moderate
Canto Upper West Side
The Upper West Side has long had an identity problem — too residential for downtown ambition, too genteel to court the scene.
UWS dinnerfamily dinnerdinner
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9.4
Based on 970 reviews
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Italian•Lower East Side•moderate
Taverna Di Bacco
Taverna Di Bacco is running a quietly subversive operation on the Lower East Side: a contemporary Italian-inflected kitchen at a price point that, by all accounts, refuses to make you feel like you compromised.
Lower East Side dinnerdate nightgroup dinner
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9.4
Based on 572 reviews
25
Italian•Upper East Side•splurge
Water & Wheat Upper East
Water & Wheat on 3rd Avenue is built on a thesis, not a trend.
Special occasionspecial occasionbusiness dinner
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9.4
Based on 416 reviews
26
Italian•Upper East Side•splurge
L'Osteria
L'Osteria on the Upper East Side does not appear to be in the business of reinventing Italian fine dining, and by all accounts that restraint is the point.
Special occasionspecial occasionbusiness dinner
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9.4
Based on 386 reviews
27
Italian•Crown Heights•value
Briscola Trattoria
Crown Heights doesn't need another restaurant cosplaying as somewhere it's not, and Briscola Trattoria — which landed in September 2024 from Top Chef alum Silvia Barban and the LaRina crew — apparently understands this.
dinnerhidden gem
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9.4
Based on 337 reviews
28
Italian•Prospect Heights•moderate
Wayward Fare
Akhtar Nawab already proved his range with Alta Calidad, a Bib Gourmand operation that built a serious following on the strength of its cooking rather than its concept.
dinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 157 reviews
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Italian•Midtown•$$
Tony's Di Napoli
Tony's Di Napoli is the kind of italian room in Midtown you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
date night
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9.2
Based on 8320 reviews
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Italian•Nolita•moderate
Rubirosa
Rubirosa is a dependable italian option in Nolita that a lot of diners already know and return to.
Nolita dinnerdinnerstylish
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9.2
Based on 7163 reviews
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Italian•Murray Hill•value
Scarpetta
Scarpetta is an easy italian option in Murray Hill in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinner
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9.2
Based on 3236 reviews
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Italian•Nolita•moderate
Osteria Barocca
Osteria Barocca is the kind of italian room in Nolita you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Nolita dinnerdate nightdinner
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9.2
Based on 3172 reviews
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Italian•SoHo•moderate
Piccola Cucina Osteria Siciliana
Piccola Cucina Osteria Siciliana is the kind of italian room in SoHo you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
SoHo lunchlunchdinner
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9.2
Based on 2529 reviews
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Piccola Cucina Uptown
Piccola Cucina Uptown trades on a familiar bit of theatre — the Bucatini Cacio e Pepe ($29.45) finished tablerise in a wheel of parmesan, a gesture more often seen than tasted these days.
Special occasionspecial occasionbusiness dinner
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9.2
Based on 2376 reviews
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Italian•Murray Hill•value
Ci Siamo
Ci Siamo is an easy italian option in Murray Hill in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinner
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9.2
Based on 2255 reviews
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Italian•SoHo•moderate
Piccola Cucina Estiatorio
Piccola Cucina Estiatorio is a italian pick in SoHo in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
SoHo lunchlunchdinner
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9.2
Based on 1960 reviews
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Italian•New York•$$$
Don Angie
Don Angie has sustained a reputation that most New York restaurants would struggle to maintain for a single season, let alone across years of relentless demand as the West Village's most contested reservation.
italiandate night
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9.2
Based on 1792 reviews
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Norma
Norma is a italian pick in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
italianwine barcocktail
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9.2
Based on 1729 reviews
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Italian•Chelsea•moderate
Zia Maria Chelsea
Zia Maria Chelsea has figured out something that most Italian-adjacent spots in this city fumble repeatedly: restraint is not timidity.
Gallery nightdate nightgroup dinner
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9.2
Based on 1711 reviews
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Italian•West Village•moderate
Canto West Village
Canto, on Perry Street in the West Village, operates in the register this neighborhood does best: a room reportedly calibrated to feel like a borrowed living room — tables close enough that the conversation is ambient rather than overhea…
Date nightdate nightdinner
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9.2
Based on 1628 reviews
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Italian•Hell’s Kitchen•moderate
Norma Hell's Kitchen
Norma Hell's Kitchen is a sensible italian call in Hell’s Kitchen in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
theaterdinner
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9.2
Based on 1252 reviews
42
Italian•NoHo•moderate
Vic's
Vic's is a italian pick in NoHo in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
stylishdinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 1223 reviews
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Italian•West Village•moderate
Palma
Palma is a italian pick in West Village in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Date nightdinnerintimate
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9.2
Based on 1187 reviews
44
Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
Clover Club
Clover Club is the kind of italian room in Carroll Gardens you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.2
Based on 1092 reviews
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Italian•New York•$$$$
Bird Dog
Bird Dog is the kind of italian room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
fine diningdate night
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9.2
Based on 947 reviews
46
Italian•West Village•moderate
Saint Theo's
Saint Theo's arrived on Bleecker Street in July 2021 as something the West Village had been quietly waiting for: a room that takes the Venetian cicchetti tradition seriously without making it feel like a museum exercise.
Date nightdate nightdinner
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9.2
Based on 891 reviews
47
Italian•Bushwick•value
Santa Panza
Santa Panza is the kind of Bushwick neighborhood restaurant that earns its staying power not through concept but through authorship.
Bushwick dinnercasual nightlate night
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9.2
Based on 787 reviews
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Italian•Greenpoint•moderate
Sereneco
Sereneco's origin story is legitimately unusual, and it shapes everything about how the place is put together.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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9.2
Based on 775 reviews
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Italian•Park Slope•value
Piccoli Trattoria
Piccoli Trattoria has been doing its thing in Park Slope since 2011, and its staying power in a neighborhood that cycles through restaurants like seasonal menus says something real.
Neighborhood classicsfamily dinnerbrunch
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9.2
Based on 701 reviews
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Italian•Cobble Hill•moderate
Barbalu Bklyn
Barbalu Bklyn is doing something quietly radical in Cobble Hill: running an Italian-inflected contemporary room that trusts its neighborhood instead of performing for it.
cozydinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 537 reviews
51
Italian•Park Slope•value
Mariella
Park Slope has no shortage of candlelit Italian rooms where the pasta is fine and the check is forgiving, but Mariella, on 6th Avenue, is doing something quieter and more principled than the neighborhood average.
Neighborhood classicsfamily dinnerbrunch
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9.2
Based on 537 reviews
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Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
Levant on Smith
The name means "to rise" — and Levant on Smith has an ambition that slightly exceeds its neighborhood's expectations, which is exactly the right amount.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.2
Based on 481 reviews
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Italian•Bed-Stuy•moderate
Macosa Trattoria
Macosa Trattoria is making a quiet argument that Bed-Stuy deserves Italian cooking that doesn't apologize for its ambitions.
dinner
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9.2
Based on 452 reviews
54
Italian•West Village•moderate
Felice on Hudson
Felice on Hudson is a italian pick in West Village in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Date nightdate nightdinner
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9.2
Based on 384 reviews
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Italian•Park Slope•value
Black Oak on Fifth
Black Oak on Fifth earns a weekend detour in Park Slope when you want brunch that beats the usual default.
Neighborhood classicsfamily dinnerbrunch
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9.2
Based on 295 reviews
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Italian•New York•$$
Locanda Verde Hudson Yards
Locanda Verde Hudson Yards is a sensible italian restaurant call in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
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9.2
Based on 252 reviews
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Italian•Lower East Side•moderate
Fossetta
Fossetta is a italian pick in Lower East Side in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Lower East Side dinnerdate nightgroup dinner
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9.2
Based on 195 reviews
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Italian•East Village•value
SONO
SONO is an easy italian option in East Village in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation. If Coming Soon is your kind of order, that is a good sign.
East Village night outcasual nightlate night
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9.2
Based on 14 reviews
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Italian•New York•splurge
Marea
Marea makes a specific and unapologous argument from its address on Central Park South: that Italian coastal cooking, executed at the highest technical register, belongs among the most civilized proposals a New York dining room can offer.
Fine diningspecial occasionrefined
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9.0
Based on 3041 reviews
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Italian•Gramercy•moderate
Upland
Upland is the kind of italian room in Gramercy you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
classicdinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 2430 reviews
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Italian•West Village•moderate
La Lanterna di Vittorio
La Lanterna di Vittorio suits a night out in West Village when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
Date nightdinnerintimate
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9.0
Based on 2420 reviews
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Italian•Williamsburg•moderate
Aurora Brooklyn
Aurora Brooklyn is the kind of italian room in Williamsburg you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Brooklyn night outgroup dinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 1601 reviews
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Italian•Nolita•moderate
Emporio
Emporio is the kind of italian room in Nolita you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Nolita dinnerdate nightdinner
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9.0
Based on 1478 reviews
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Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
Frankies 457 Spuntino
Frankies 457 Spuntino is the kind of italian room in Carroll Gardens you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.0
Based on 1466 reviews
65
Italian•Chelsea•moderate
Bocca di Bacco Chelsea
Bocca di Bacco Chelsea is the kind of italian room in Chelsea you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Gallery nightdate nightgroup dinner
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9.0
Based on 1328 reviews
66
Italian•Park Slope•value
al di là Trattoria
Al di là has been anchoring Fifth Avenue in Park Slope long enough to predate the neighborhood's own mythology, and by every account it still refuses to romanticize itself.
Neighborhood classicsfamily dinnerbrunch
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9.0
Based on 1078 reviews
67
Italian•East Village•value
Hearth
Marco Canora opened Hearth in 2003, and two decades later it has become something genuinely rare in New York: a neighborhood restaurant whose commitment to sourcing actually shows up as infrastructure rather than marketing copy.
East Village night outcasual nightlate night
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9.0
Based on 1015 reviews
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Italian•New York•moderate
MICHELIN ★
Torrisi
Torrisi occupies a position in New York's dining landscape that few Italian-American restaurants have seriously contested: the deliberate, rigorous reclamation of a cuisine long accustomed to being condescended to.
Nolita dinnerdate nightdinner
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9.0
Based on 941 reviews
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Italian•East Village•value
Gnocco
Here's what gnocco has been doing in the East Village for twenty-plus years: holding the line against concept-driven Italian-American excess without making a big deal about it.
East Village night outcasual nightlate night
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9.0
Based on 903 reviews
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Italian•Manhattan•$$
BOTTINO | modern italian dining
Bottino has operated on West 24th Street for more than two decades, which in Chelsea's gallery-adjacent dining scene amounts to a minor institutional fact.
wine barcocktaildate night
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9.0
Based on 853 reviews
71
Italian•Park Slope•value
Pasta Louise Restaurant
Park Slope has no shortage of Italian-adjacent rooms where the lighting is flattering and the pasta is merely fine.
Neighborhood classicsfamily dinnerbrunch
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9.0
Based on 811 reviews
72
Italian•Nolita•moderate
Peasant
Peasant suits a night out in Nolita when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
Nolita dinnerdate nightdinner
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9.0
Based on 810 reviews
73
Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
Gersi Restaurant Brooklyn
Gersi Restaurant Brooklyn suits a night out in Carroll Gardens when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.0
Based on 626 reviews
74
Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
Luana's Tavern
Luana's Tavern suits a night out in Carroll Gardens when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.0
Based on 253 reviews
75
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Italian•West Village•$$$
Via Carota
Via Carota has built something that technically ambitious restaurants rarely manage: a reputation grounded entirely in restraint.
date night
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8.8
Based on 3276 reviews
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Italian•Tribeca•splurge
Locanda Verde Tribeca
Locanda Verde Tribeca is the kind of italian room in Tribeca you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
upscaledinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 2339 reviews
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Italian•Nolita•moderate
Little Ruby's SoHo
Little Ruby's SoHo is a italian pick in Nolita in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Nolita dinnerdate nightdinner
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8.8
Based on 2307 reviews
78
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Italian•Tribeca•splurge
Serafina Tribeca
Serafina Tribeca is a italian pick in Tribeca in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
upscaledinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 1704 reviews
79
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Italian•Nolita•moderate
Pietro Nolita
Pietro Nolita is the kind of italian room in Nolita you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Nolita dinnerdate nightdinner
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8.8
Based on 1374 reviews
80
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Italian•New York•$$
John's of 12th Street
John's of 12th Street is a sensible italian restaurant call in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
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8.8
Based on 1365 reviews
81
Italian•Lower East Side•moderate
Forsythia NYC
Forsythia NYC is the kind of italian room in Lower East Side you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Lower East Side dinnerdate nightgroup dinner
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8.8
Based on 433 reviews
82
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Italian•West Village•moderate
Ambra
Ambra is a italian pick in West Village in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Date nightdate nightdinner
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8.8
Based on 259 reviews
83
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Italian•Manhattan•$$$$
Carbone New York
Carbone opened in the West Village in 2013 and has reportedly run at full capacity ever since — a decade-plus of sustained demand that, by most accounts, has not loosened the kitchen's standards.
date night
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8.6
Based on 2621 reviews
84
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Italian•Williamsburg•moderate
Lilia
Missy Robbins opened Lilia in Williamsburg and has since built what is, by most credible accounts, New York's most consistently respected pasta destination — a distinction that rests not on a single breakout moment but on sustained kitch…
Brooklyn night outgroup dinnerdate night
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8.6
Based on 2280 reviews
85
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Italian•Upper East Side•splurge
Uva
Uva has operated on Second Avenue since 2005, which, on the Upper East Side, counts for something — not merely longevity, but a particular kind of accumulated credibility.
Special occasionspecial occasionbusiness dinner
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8.6
Based on 2086 reviews
86
Italian•DUMBO•moderate
AlMar
AlMar is a italian pick in DUMBO in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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8.6
Based on 830 reviews
87
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Italian•New York•$$$$
MICHELIN ★
Rezdôra
Rezdôra is an easy italian option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
italianmichelin star
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8.4
Based on 1707 reviews
88
Italian•Greenpoint•moderate
Milk & Roses
Milk & Roses has worked out something that a lot of Greenpoint rooms are still chasing: how to feel genuinely romantic without manufacturing the atmosphere through obvious moves.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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8.4
Based on 1014 reviews
89
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Italian•New York•$$$
King
King occupies a Hudson Square dining room that has accumulated a quiet but consistent reputation as one of the more genuinely considered Italian restaurants in lower Manhattan.
italian
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8.4
Based on 584 reviews
90
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Italian•Flatiron•splurge
AMALFI Rooftop by Birreria
What AMALFI Rooftop by Birreria is arguing, architecturally and culinarily, is that the most persuasive table in Manhattan sits above the Flatiron District with a Campanian menu that has actual convictions.
Business dinnerbusiness dinnerlunch
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8.0
Based on 3217 reviews
91
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Italian•Nolita•moderate
The Butcher's Daughter
The Butcher's Daughter is a italian restaurant in Nolita in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
Nolita dinnerdinnerstylish
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8.0
Based on 2171 reviews
92
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Italian•Bronx•moderate
Antonio's Trattoria
Antonio's Trattoria suits a night out in Bronx when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
Bronx diningdinnerconsidered
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4.6
Based on 1614 reviews
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New York date-night restaurants where the room and the food both help the evening land — from a West Village Italian-American to SoHo's most romantic candlelit bistro.
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Common questions about Italian in New York
What are the best Italian restaurants in New York?
The top Italian restaurants in New York include Crown Heights Pasta, RUA Thai - Thai Restaurant Brooklyn, Giulietta. TastyPals curates these picks based on Google ratings, review volume, and editorial judgment.
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Crown Heights Pasta is among the highest-rated Italian restaurants in New York, with a 10.0 Google rating across 18 reviews.
How much does Italian food cost in New York?
Italian restaurants in New York range from moderate to value. Most mid-range options fall in the value range.
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