With 101 Restaurant Out Renovation Brings Positano In

Positano [10018 4th Ave], an upcoming trendy Italian restaurant will open at 4th Ave & 101st St and basically be within an earshot of the Verrazano Bridge with the requisite al fresco dining and views that come with it.

Mancini's Pizza Out Benevento Osteria In

Mancini's Pizza [8504 5th Ave] has changed hands, making way for pizzeria, Benevento Osteria.

Mancini's had a good five year run serving up pizza from their brick oven along heavily trafficked 5th Ave.  Benevento's phone number is largely unchanged, making this transition one of the quietest we've seen yet... aside from the awning and signage.

Updates From 3rd Ave Restaurant Row

Grotto Italian Table [8901 3rd Ave.], the Italian restaurant we last reported in early September gave us quite a pleasant surprise by opening over the weekend (Fri/Sat). Please welcome them to the neighborhood if you have a chance and let us know what you think!

Bombay Grill, the Indian restaurant [8716 3rd Ave] we last reported awhile ago between 87/88th St. finally shows progress.

Italian Restaurant Week

October 8-15

Are you excited for tomorrow? You should be.

Italian Restaurant Week is here in Brooklyn for the next week and the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce has a list of participating restaurants.
(Here are the details: PDF)

New Italian Restaurant Coming to Restaurant Row

New restaurant at [8901 3rd Ave] is taking over for former Huckleberry's N.Y., in what appears to be an Italian bistro named Grotto Italian Table.