Our Guide On How To Experience The Best Italian Food In NYC

New York City is known for its top-notch Italian cuisine. And although all five boroughs offer an abundance of Italian restaurant riches, there is one neighborhood that many flock to experience the best and most authentic Italian food in NYC. The Bronx’s Little Italy, not to confuse it with Little Italy in Lower Manhattan, remains a culinary destination. The Belmont section of the Bronx, also known as Arthur Avenue, is where Italians arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The neighborhood’s main street, bisected by East 187th street is lined with a rich sense of history and personality filled with traditional restaurants, pizzerias, meat and fish markets, as well as bakeries and pastry shops.

Once you shop or dine here, you will experience the difference between homemade mozzarella purchased at a notable Italian deli, versus your local grocery. Trust us, you will never go back to grocery bought quality. Arthur Avenue highlights the old and the new, featuring several establishments serving locals for over a century, to new eateries creating dishes influenced by Neapolitan, Sicilian, and Sardinian cookery. It is why many who have left this area come back to stock up, and dine regularly with family and friends.