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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
Based on 18 reviews
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Best Italian for dinner in New York
Italian restaurants in New York that work well for dinner — sorted by rating and curated for occasion fit.
50 restaurantsUpdated July 2026
Top Italian picks for dinner
Fast answers for diners comparing italian restaurants for dinner in New York.
Crown Heights Pasta
#1 pick
Crown Heights Pasta
Italian | Crown Heights | value
Strong pick for dinner.
#2 pick
RUA Thai - Thai Restaurant Brooklyn
Italian | Carroll Gardens | moderate
Strong pick for dinner.
Osteria Carlina Tribeca
#3 pick
Osteria Carlina Tribeca
Italian | Tribeca | splurge
Known for Fluke Crudo.
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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
3
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
6
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
7
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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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.
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9.6
Based on 4060 reviews
10
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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
11
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.
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9.6
Based on 207 reviews
12
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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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
14
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
15
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.
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9.4
Based on 337 reviews
16
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•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
21
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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
22
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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•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…
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9.2
Based on 1628 reviews
24
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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
25
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
27
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
28
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
29
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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
30
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
31
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
32
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
33
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
34
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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
35
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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
36
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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
37
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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
38
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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
39
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
40
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
41
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
42
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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
43
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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
44
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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
45
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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
46
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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
47
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
48
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
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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
50
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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
Common questions
What are the best Italian restaurants for dinner in New York?
Top Italian restaurants for dinner in New York include Crown Heights Pasta, RUA Thai - Thai Restaurant Brooklyn, Osteria Carlina Tribeca. TastyPals curates these based on occasion tags, Google ratings, and editorial judgment.
Is Italian good for dinner in New York?
Yes — New York has 50 Italian restaurants rated highly for dinner. Crown Heights Pasta is among the top picks with a 10.0 Google rating.
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