10 Old School Italian Restaurants In NYC You Need To Try

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10 Old School Italian Restaurants In NYC You Need To Try By Jay Wilson Sept. 3, 2025 1:19 pm EST

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Forget your tasting menus, your avant-garde approaches to cuisine, and your sky-high bills. When we eat out at an Italian restaurant, we want to keep it traditional, and where else is better to do so than New York? The city is swimming with old-school Italian restaurants — including some that are owned by pop stars and their parents – which preserve the charm they had since they first opened their doors. New York has been a hotbed of Italian food since the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when waves of migration from Italian workers and families caused a culinary shift away from German cuisine and towards a more Mediterranean feel. As hund