Graziella's, located on Vanderbilt Avenue between Dekalb and Willoughby avenues, is the place to come for fine Italian dining seven days a week. Choose from large lunch, dinner and dessert menus featuring soups, seafood, paninis, pastas and wood-fired pizzas. Enjoy rooftop seating when the weather is nice, and take advantage of delivery service any time if you'd rather have a meal in the comfort of your own home.
Operating from a finely restored 19th-century pharmacy and known for its warm service, Locanda Vini E Olii is a much loved Italian restaurant on Gates Avenue. The restaurant serves an always changing menu of Tuscan specialties, and offers a nice selection of wines to complement the menu. Look for the old "Lewis Drug Store" building.
This restaurant is part of a pizza chain and offers a variety of pizzas by the slice, including options such as an arugula prosciutto slice, a salad slice and an eggplant and mozzarella slice. There are heros and pasta dishes as well. The eatery has some seating, and take-out is available.
Cataldo's is a family-owned Italian restaurant known for its flavorful, outrageously generous portions and down-home style. A full range of pasta dishes are offered, as well as bountiful sandwiches and brick oven pizzas. Beer and wine is available, and genuinely friendly service makes visiting this casual Prospect Heights restaurant a real pleasure.
This South Slope restaurant serves seasonal Italian fare such as saphron tagliolini with shrimp and zucchini, a prosciutto and mozzarella panini and fettuccine with a filet mignon ragu. A weekend brunch offers items like an asparagus and gruyere cheese frittata and french toast with caramelized apples. Patrons seated in the plush booths, at the sidewalk tables or along the white marble bar also have numerous Italian wines and several draft beers to choose from.
Convivium Osteria is a restaurant combining the traditions and culinary ways of Italy, Spain and Portugal. Feel comfort, warmth, romance as you walk into the lovely, dimly lit restaurant.
All of Convivium Osteria's dishes are prepared with organic fruits and vegetables and meats are from naturally raised animals. In addition, homemade pasta is made daily and delicious, house-baked desserts are available, too.
Make your reservation over the phone or on the website. Convivium Osteria is located on 5th Avenue, near the corner of St. Mark's Place.
