Tag Archives: Italian cuisine

Oil Man

Stephen J. Clemente, owner of Extra Virgin Oil Store

Tradition and modernity are like oil and vinegar—they’re not supposed to mix, but sometimes, they surprise you. Extra Virgin Oil Store, recently opened on Chapel Street downtown, specializes in (more…)

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Feast Your Eyes

The ceiling at ROÌA

If you feel as though you’ve stepped back in time upon entering the young downtown restaurant ROÌA, it’s because, in a sense, you have. Before its grand opening in March, ROÌA, located in a (more…)

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Apizza the Pie

The Special at Zuppardi's

New Haveners are spoiled: we have some of the best pizza in the country, maybe in the world, and we have options for where to get it. “Apizza,” “thin-crust” and “brick-oven” are elevated concepts elsewhere, but they’re our normal. From the outside, we may look like an enclave of people who have pledged allegiance to […]

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Restaurant Revue

Michael Sayers at Consiglio's Restaurant

If you’ve never ventured into Consiglio’s Restaurant on Wooster Street, now is a particularly dramatic time to do so. For the past three years, the restaurant—family-owned for 75 years and now run by a third generation of the Consiglio (more…)

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