September 20, 2019
I grew up in upstate New York and there were a lot of really good family owned Italian restaurants that served pizza, subs, garlic bread and pasta. I wouldn’t call it gourmet but it was really good. We never ordered pizza or subs from a chain, it was always a local shop. It was something that I really missed when I moved to Los Angeles. Los Angeles had some upscale Italian places but the red and white checkered table cloths serving lasagna, spaghetti and meatballs were harder to find.
I had never been to Little Italy in NYC so I put it on the list of places to explore. I was thrilled to learn that there was a festival going on while we were there called the Feast of San Gennaro. The main streets were closed down, restaurants extended their dining room into the street while other vendors set up booths. I found it difficult to decide what I was going to eat, I wanted to eat it all – pizza, zeppoles, cannolis, tiramisu, gelato and arancini was everywhere.
We opted for a sit down lunch at Lombardi’s, the oldest pizzeria in the US but we made it a point to leave room for a few treats at the street festival.
For dinner, we continued with Italian food. We went to dinner at Capizzi, a small place with amazing food on the other side of the Port Authority bus station. We discovered this place on a previous trip and was glad to find that it was just as good as we remembered it.
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