Diners' Choice: Italian restaurants in New York City

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Updated 05 December 2024

Looking for restaurants with the best overall Italian cuisine in New York City? You’re in the right place. Each month OpenTable analyses more than 400,000 new diner reviews. We sort the results by category to help you discover new favourites. It's a great partnership: you reserve, eat, and review. We listen...and deliver the results for all to benefit. Enjoy!

Portale Restaurant

5.0

5 (214)

$50 and over

Italian

Chelsea

About the restaurant

Portale Restaurant is brought to you by James Beard Award-winning chef and cookbook author Alfred Portale. Chef Portale brings his heritage and passion for the cuisine and culture of Italy to his namesake, serving a contemporary Italian menu with house-made pasta, market vegetables, and beautifully presented dishes in a relaxed and convivial setting.

Find your excuse to join us!

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Damon

Dined on 7 Dec 2024

Great spot but not cheap. I would highly recommend. The food is outstanding...right from the warm homemade foccacia with whipped ricotta to the duck breast which was cooked perfectly....knife cut through like butter. The lobster primi dish was great too.

Bocelli Ristorante

4.9

4.9 (650)

$30 and under

Italian

Concord

About the restaurant

For almost two decades, Bocelli Ristorante has been providing the most authentic Italian cuisine in Staten Island and New York City. Voted the Best Italian Restaurant in both 2014 and 2015, and named one of the 2017 Top 10 best Italian Restaurants in NYC, we pride ourselves on using the finest ingredients to make delicious dishes all served in an atmosphere that will place you on a sunny hillside in Italy. Whether seeking an intimate dinner with a loved one, a family get-together or a larger special occasion in our private party room, there are few restaurants that can cater to your senses like Bocelli Ristorante.
See you soon!

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Michael

Dined 5 days ago

Everything was very good. Service and food was excellent. Nice choices on the menu and great variety of specials. Parking lot can be your only challenge!

Patrizia's of Maspeth

4.8

4.8 (122)

$31 to $50

Italian

Douglaston

About the restaurant

PATRIZIA’S GROUP OF RESTAURANTS ARE SERVING UP YOUR TRADITIONAL HOMEMADE ITALIAN COOKING. JUST LIKE A SUNDAY LUNCH AT YOUR ITALIAN GRANDMAS HOUSE!
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We welcome you to enjoy our family style tasting menu which includes seasonally inspired dishes from our homemade breads, cheeses and pastas to our selected meats, seafood, wines and desserts. Your enjoyment of our food and restaurant is very important to us. We strive to make everyone feel like family.

For parties of 20 or more please call the restaurant at 718-779-2083.

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Michael

Dined 7 days ago

Service was fantastic, food was great, you will enjoy, especially the wood-fired pizza

Giano

4.9

4.9 (1543)

$30 and under

Italian

East Village

About the restaurant

Please call us if you are running later than 10 minutes after your reservation time. We may contact you about this reservation, so please ensure your email and phone number are up to date.
Please know that we have a grace period (15 min) .
All of our outdoor seating have heaters for your dining comfort but we ask that you dress accordingly for a New York winter.
This is the story of Paolo and Matteo, two guys from Milano who had an idea. Let's take the heart of our tradition and fuse it with the exciting innovations happening in Italian cooking, they said. Inspired by the Roman deity Janus who looked to the future as well as the past, Giano respects tradition and embraces the future. We like to think of our little corner in the east village as quite special, and hope you will too

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laurenVIP

Dined on 13 Dec 2024

Excellent as always!!! Highly recommend this small gem of a restaurant!

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Popular dish

Tagliatelle alla Bolognese

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Tagliatelle alla Tirolese

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Toasted Ravioli

Villa Mosconi

4.9

4.9 (951)

$31 to $50

Italian

Greenwich Village

About the restaurant

Villa Mosconi Restaurant is a family-run restaurant located in the heart of New York City's historic Greenwich Village. The restaurant has been serving the same great food under the guidance of the Mosconi family since 1976 at the same location on MacDougal Street between Bleecker and West Houston streets. The restaurant offers superb authentic Northern Italian cuisine that reflects the family's origins in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.

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Jayne

Dined 2 days ago

Fun very busy night. The staff handled it well. Love the old school vibe.

Montesacro BK

4.9

4.9 (217)

$31 to $50

Italian

Williamsburg

About the restaurant

Located in the vibrant neighborhood of Williamsburg, Montesacro introduces Pinsa and pays homage to Roman culinary traditions.

The enclosed garden with a retractable rooftop, perfect for every season, is the ideal spot for a romantic dinner, a casual get together with friends and private events.

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Rebeca

Dined on 17 Nov 2024

Amazing food and atmosphere, will go back.

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Popular dish

Tonnarelli Cacio e Pepe

Michael's of Brooklyn

4.9

4.9 (910)

$31 to $50

Italian

Midwood

About the restaurant

Family owned and operated since 1964, Michael’s of Brooklyn offers three generations of pride and excellence at our restaurant in Brooklyn, New York. Loyal customers visit from near and far to enjoy generations-old family recipes, lovingly handed down as a legacy of Italian tradition.

So come and join us as we celebrate the tastes of Italy in our elegantly appointed dining room. From delicious warm and cold antipasti and tantalizing pasta creations…to delectable seafood, veal and poultry entrees… tempting desserts, too. All served to you by a warm and friendly staff. Visit us today and find out why Michael’s has been a Brooklyn institution for nearly sixty years.

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DouglasD

Dined 1 day ago

You can’t beat Michael’s… the best of the best all around

Scalini Fedeli

4.9

4.9 (3147)

$50 and over

Italian

TriBeCa

About the restaurant

Please join us for a New Year's Eve celebration. We are offering a 5-course fixed-price menu for $148 per guest

Scalini Fedeli ranked among New York's finest restaurants since its opening in early 2004, taking Italian cuisine to new heights. Rewarded with the highest overall ratings in the Zagat Survey, Scalini Fedeli has been granted one star by the Michelin guide in it's inaugural 2006 issue.

The inviting decor features vaulted ceilings and European antiques and provides the perfect setting for chef Michael Cetrulo's delightful cuisine which offers the finest ingredients coupled with a confidence and grace that ensures your meal will be a memorable one.

Menu highlights include soft egg yolk raviolo with ricotta and truffle butter and New York's finest venison chop in a port wine and balsamic vinegar sauce with toasted hazelnuts, sautéed spinach and roasted Mission figs.

The 350-bottle wine list encompasses all regions of Italy but also does justice to the best American wineries.

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SharynVIP

Dined 4 days ago

It was a wonderful meal and the staff was great. I've been to NJ location numerous times and neither one dissapoints. Highly recommended

Il Toscano - Douglaston

4.8

4.8 (1546)

$31 to $50

Italian

Douglaston

About the restaurant

Il Toscano is open for outdoor dining in our heated cedar gazebos and Curbside Pickup and Delivery *Wednesday Thursday-Friday-Saturday-Sunday 4:00pm to 9:30pm! Please call 718-631-0300 after 2 pm to place your order.

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For almost three decades, Il Toscano has been known for taking fresh, seasonal ingredients and preparing sumptuous Northern Italian style cuisine.

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AmyVIP

Dined 2 days ago

While the food is almost fantastic, the valet parking situation is less than spectacular and our server wasn't the greatest. Tables packed in too close together and this time we sat next to a bunch of cackling very loud women. Not going back anytime soon!

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Popular dish

Caesar Salad

Positano

4.8

4.8 (610)

$50 and over

Italian

Bay Ridge

About the restaurant

Positano is an Italian restaurant located in a quaint section of Bay Ridge. We offer Italian American cuisine with an emphasis on seafood, dry-aged steaks, homemade fresh pasta dishes and more! Perfect for families, a date, or an event! We are an upbeat locale with both indoor and outdoor dining offered.

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Jennifer

Dined today

Great services from the minute we entered. Our waiter was attentive. We ordered three entrees which we loved. Lovely decor for the holidays. Would come back.

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