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Eataly, New York City

July 6th, 2011. Posted by Neil

Eataly is the brain child of Mario Batali, Joe Bastianich (Mario’s long time business partner), Lidia Bastianich and Oscar Farinetti – clever businessmen and women and dedicated food professionals who have created a little Italian oasis in the middle of Manhattan. Well not so little really – Eataly is located in the site of the old Hasbro toy store on 23rd and 5th. It’s right where the Flatiron Building sits as Broadway crosses 5thand is worth a visit to that area just to see that impressive structure. However it is really worth a visit to this 2o,ooo square foot of everything to do with Italian food and wine.

I love the fact that the whole place is licenced and you can queue for food with a glass of wine in hand or even push your shopping trolley round all the amazing dry and fresh Italian food stuffs… what a way to shop, with a glass of Chianti in hand..

 5th Avenue entrance – Cafe Lavazza, Gelateria…

Bakery with fantastic breads

The Market

Amazing, amazing selection of fresh wild mushrooms. Chantrelles, porcini, morels… if only we could get these in Aus..

Awesome margarita pizza and broccoli oricchette, washed down with a good bottle of young Chianti.

Tempting…

We loved it, the main floor broken into restaurants that do seafood, pizza, pasta, with a mozzarella & salumi bar taking centre stage.

This is a great experience and I recommend you stop and have an espresso on the way out. Mario and co. we salute you!

One of New York’s finest pieces of architecture – the Flatiron Building.

Eataly map – just so you don’t get lost in there!

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5 Responses to Eataly, New York City

  1. Carol da Silva says:
    July 6, 2011 at 9:32 pm

    Hi Neil – We went to NY in May and ate at Eataly several times. All we could think was why doesn’t Sydney have something like this. All of May, on a little median strip around the corner from Eataly, just opposite Madison Square Park, there was
    a food market with little tents and al fresco seating. Every evening hundreds of people would be sitting or standing around, eating and drinking from some of New York’s finest eg Eataly, Momofuku, Brooklyn Pizza Kitchen etc It was amazing to see the standard of fare available.

    • Neil says:
      July 8, 2011 at 3:18 pm

      Hi Carol
      Yes it’s great – New York is such an amazing city and they’re lucky to have something like Eataly. We do have Fratelli Fresh here in Sydney which is similar, but on a different scale. Barry is about to open a new Fratelli here in the city on Bridge street which I’m looking forward to.

  2. Siobhan C says:
    July 7, 2011 at 2:03 pm

    Oh my! I had no idea it was so big. I thought Dean & Deluca was good…

  3. Simon Food Favourites says:
    July 7, 2011 at 9:20 pm

    i wish i went into this place when i walked past last year. i wondered why it had a huge line outside. now i can see why :-) i didn’t realise it was soooo huge!