Best cavatelli in NYC

Looking for best cavatelli in NYC...best traditional italian food in general

Best cavatelli in NYC

unclestones, I think because of the extremely narrow nature of your request, you haven%26#39;t gotten any responses. Cavatelli? Who knows? That%26#39;s a little crazy! Do you really love cavatelli and nothing else? That%26#39;s crazy! :D

If you do a search for %26#39;best Italian food%26#39; you should have no problem getting an answer to this more general question.

Good luck and good eating!

Best cavatelli in NYC

Interesting that you mention cavatelli, a true Italian comfort food to me (my dad used to spend hours handrolling them for family get togethers). And by the way, I personally don%26#39;t see anything wrong with your question.

A cousin of mine who just returned from NYC (she was visiting a friend in Brooklyn) was just telling me last week about a great meal she had there at a place named Fiore. She said they had a cavatelli with rapini and sausage that reminded her of my dad%26#39;s:(

Ricotta cavatelli at Little Owl. Not traditional Italian.

I was looking for a place that served all different types of home made pasta...ravs, lasagna, cavatelli ect. Some places serve wierd types of food they call italian.

Try posting your question here:

www.chowhound.com

on the Manhattan board

I think--and I may be wrong--that what you%26#39;re looking for is what%26#39;s referred to as Italian-American or ';red sauce'; cooking. In actual Italian restaurants, pasta is just one of several courses, and not the most important. The ';weird'; food you mention is, for Italians, authentic Italian food. What they find weird is the way Americans think Italian = pasta.

If a good red sauce restaurant is indeed what you%26#39;re after, you might try Bamonte%26#39;s:

nymag.com/listings/restaurant/bamontes/

Crans - It%26#39;s either too early in the morning for me or I may just be cranky, but what the heck are you saying? LOL

Cavatelli is not a ';weird food'; - it%26#39;s a type of pasta. Like penne, or lasagna, or rigatoni, or gnocchi, or ravioli.

';In actual Italian restaurants, pasta is just one of several courses. and not the most important'; - Huh? Yes, there is more to Italian food than pasta, but come on, pasta is the main staple of Italian food.

Ok - time for another coffee...

We spent some time in Italy last summer with my son-in-laws family.

They live in the Campania region, southern Italy of which Naples is the nearest large city.

A typical evening meal consisted of a soup course, antipasto, pasta, entree either meat or fish, then a salad, dessert and cordials, coffee, espresso.

We were talking and mentioned that when we ate %26#39;Italian%26#39; it was salad, pasta with meatballs or sausage and dessert, coffee. The response was ';that%26#39;s it?';

Lunch was more or less the same as in the States, sandwiches salads, sometimes soup.

The evening meal was a two hour affair with a lot of socializing............

And it wasn%26#39;t just because we were there, they do this almost every night or so that%26#39;s what they told me.

So, when you say weird Italian foods - not so much - this was the real deal.

I think there%26#39;s a miscommunication here :)

I was NOT saying that cavatelli is weird; I was responding to the OP%26#39;s remark that ';Some places serve wierd types of food they call italian,'; the implication being that non-pasta foods at Italian restaurants are ';weird'; and not Italian.

My point is that pasta, while it may be a staple of Italian cooking, is not the centerpiece of the meal in many Italian restaurants, where, say, fritto misto or bistecca alla Fiorentina or abbachio brodettato would be the main course. Pasta would just be a lead-in to that dish, as Poppa indicates.

As I said, perhaps it was a false inference that the OP was suggesting that non-pasta dishes at Italian restaurants are weird or not Italian.

Unclestones, could you please describe for us some of this 鈥渨eird'; foods that you encountered and where you encountered them.