Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria

This "simple convivial spot that tastes just like Italy" feels like a "village inside-a-restaurant". While the Alimentari sells housemade salumi, freshly baked bread and an ample assortment of imported and domestic items, the open kitchen looks out onto a rustic dining room with communal tables and long marble wine bar. A seasonal menu by Chef Justin Smillie features salumi/cheese boards, small...

It's rare that a sequel surpasses the original, but Alimentari is the Road Warrior of restaurants, an expanded and improved tribute to rustic italian food that is bigger, better, and more ambitious than its original. The salumi by itself is worth coming for, but stay for the porchetta and short ribs.

More details are emerging about chef Justin Smillie's new restaurant with Stephen Starr. When Smillie left his position at Il Buco Alimentari back in June, not much was known about his new venture with the mega-restaurateur besides the fact that it would be a "Mediterranean-style farm-to-table" place in the old Manzanilla space. But now the restaurant has a name, and even some menu items. It's...

OpenTable is launching an app for mobile payment at over 45 restaurants in New York today including Il Buco Alimentari, Pearl & Ash, and Tamarind Tribeca. The app, which was tested out in the San Francisco restaurant scene is slated to launch in 20 cities by the end of the year. It allows diners to pay their bill (and the tip) on their phone without having to wait for a server to drop the bill...

NOHO — Il Buco Alimentari e Vineria has just launched a prix fixe greenmarket lunch menu. The three-course menu is $35 per person, and dishes change daily, but expect things like asparagus with a fried egg, housemade pappardelle, and a selection of Il Buco's excellent gelatos and sorbets. [EaterWire]

FORT GREENE — Roman's is serving a four-course Piedmontese feast for Easter this Sunday. The...

This sibling to the original Il Buco, on Bond Street, is the city’s most complete realization so far of a powerful myth: the simple and convivial restaurant that tastes just like Italy. To recreate the feeling of a modest restaurant in an Umbrian village, Donna Lennard, the owner, essentially recreated the village. There is a baker making slow-rising artisanal loaves; a grocer selling Sicilian...

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Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria is a market, salumeria, bakery and restaurant dedicated to quality products.
This "simple convivial spot that tastes just like Italy" feels like a "village inside-a-restaurant". While the Alimentari sells housemade salumi, freshly baked bread and an ample assortment of imported and domestic items, the open kitchen looks out onto a rustic dining room...