I consider myself a Rome expert. I spent a summer there in law school, and my husband and I have since visited countless times in every season. One of our favorite restaurants in Rome, Roscioli Salumeria con Cucina (or just “Roscioli”), opened a location in New York last year – its first outside of Rome. I anxiously awaited a meal here and finally secured a lunch reservation on the same day I was recognized as an Italian citizen. Perfetto! This post reviews my lunch at Roscioli New York City.
Here is a pic of me and Dan in front of the Italian Consulate in New York before my swearing in ceremony on June 14, 2024 (literally six years in the making)!
Setting aside my own personal victories, let’s discuss Roscioli New York City! Roscioli New York City opened in July 2023 in New York’s West Village (at 43 MacDougal Street to be exact). While this is New York’s first Roscioli operation, the Roscioli brand has been in Italy since at least the 1970s and has run its well-known and, quite frankly, beloved, restaurant, Salumeria Roscioli, in Rome for 20 years. Prior to New York, the Roscioli brand had already expanded to a second, wine focused space in Rome, Roscioli Rimessa (where I spent this New Year’s Eve), runs an wine club shipping around the globe (of which I was a member for years) and opened a Roman cafe that I have (sadly) never visited. The New York location is yet another expansion of the business, this time outside of Rome and all the way across the Atlantic. In any case, I was very excited for lunch and had high expectations.
Roscioli New York City! This entrance was reminiscent of the Salumeria Roscioli entrance in Rome.
Roscioli New York City is split into two spaces. The street level is a “casual” restaurant and alimentari (or “food store” (kind of like a bodega in NYC) in Italian). It is a cute space, albeit small, where guests sit amongst the food for sale (all imported from Italy) and view the open air kitchen. The Alimentari, as I will call it, is where lunch is served and, while its listed as “a la carte” online, only a 3 course tasting menu for $55 was offered on our visit.
