New York has a new nonna-run pasta bar

This New York nonna is raring to feed you!

Addolorata Marzovilla, also referred to as Nonna Dora, is the face of a brand new eponymous restaurant in Kip’s Bay. Nonna Dora’s Pasta Bar, run by the 85-year-old Italian grandmother, is providing a big selection of antipasti, in addition to handmade pastas. A tasting of three pastas goes for $45, although the whole lot is out there a la carte. An in depth wine, negroni and cocktail checklist helps sweeten the deal, as a result of getting lit over nonna’s lasagna is at all times a good suggestion.

For the previous three a long time, Nonna Dora was a signature fixture at I Trulli, the Puglian restaurant in Gramercy named after the Southern Italian area’s stone huts with conical roots. Marzovilla herself emigrated from Puglia to New York within the Seventies, on the age of 34, ultimately providing her pasta-making abilities to assist her grown son, Nicola, open I Trulli. She spent hours on her ft on a regular basis on the entrance of the restaurant, churning out orecchiette, garganelli and extra conventional shapes, now discovered on the pasta bar menu. 

Now, the beloved nonna is carrying on the restaurant’s Italian culinary legacy in a brand new approach. She’s additionally providing digital pasta making lessons and recent do-it-yourself pasta and Italian dishes that ship nationwide with Goldbelly. Gluten-free pasta can be accessible at Nonna Dora’s as are hearty meals, like braised rabbit and Florentine-style steak, which have to be ordered at the least 24 hours prematurely (however do assure you a desk on the small eatery). An abridged menu, in addition to frozen pasta kits, are additionally accessible for takeout. 

Nonna Dora’s Pasta Bar is at the moment open for dinner, Monday by Thursday from 5pm to 11pm and Friday and Saturday from 5pm to 11pm. No reservations.