Eight Brooklyn restaurants making pasta, pizza, and Northern Italian classics the right way, from Lilia hand-rolled noodles to Lucali brick-oven pies.
Williamsburg · 567 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211, USA
Whitewashed walls, high ceilings, and a former auto-body shop on Union Avenue transformed into one of the rare places where pasta genuinely feels reservation-worthy. The mafaldini with pink peppercorn is the dish people…
Cobble Hill / Carroll Gardens · 575 Henry St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, USA
A brick-oven pizzeria in Carroll Gardens with a menu of exactly two things (pizza and calzone) served BYOB and cash-only. The thin-crusted pies come out properly charred and hand-rolled to order; the ricotta calzone is …
Park Slope · 248 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215, USA
A candlelit Northern Italian trattoria where the menu rotates seasonally and the dining room stays small enough to feel intimate. Ricotta cavatelli with roasted tomatoes, hand-rolled pasta, and braised oxtail with polen…
Williamsburg · 70 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11249, USA
Twenty-plus years in and still making pasta by hand which at this point qualifies as an act of defiance. The back garden - leafy, enclosed, strung with lights - is the reason half the neighborhood got engaged here. Chee…
DUMBO + Ft Greene · 387 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205
A sunlit Fort Greene pasta factory where fresh noodles get rolled in the open kitchen and the room smells faintly of flour and wine. It’s casual enough for a weeknight but polished enough to feel like you made a good li…
Williamsburg · 284 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Williamsburg’s new Italian stunner from the Four Horsemen crew trades wine-bar minimalism for white brick, warm wood, and a menu that swings from trofie pesto to fried eel toast. Pastas are the draw, cocktails lean amar…
DUMBO + Ft Greene · 111 Front St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
A regional Italian restaurant in DUMBO with a menu built around the pastas. Lasagna Bolognese, Spinach Fettuccine alla Bolognese, Paccheri with mashed eggplant and fresh ricotta. And the house meatballs that routinely s…
DUMBO + Ft Greene · 243 Dekalb Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA
A Fort Greene staple since 2009, Roman's runs a nightly rotating Italian-American menu divided into firsts, seconds, and thirds, the only constant is the fava bean puree, which exists almost entirely as a vehicle for Sh…