JACK DANIELS alla SINATRA

THE RAT PACK

SAMMY POURS FRANK & DEAN Some JD

Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra

SINATRA'S FAVORITE RESTAURANT

PATSY'S ITALIAN RESTAURANT

West 56th STREET, NEW YORK, NY

SINCE 1933

Everyone knows patsy's was Frank's Favorite. Everyone in the know or who knew Frank. Patsy's on West 56th Street was a long time favorite of Sinatra, who started eating at Patsy's ever since his Star Began To Rise back in the 1940's .. The Dorsey Brothers, Tommy and Jimmy brought Frank there for his first of thousands. Frank was going to Patsy's ever since his New York Hoboken days, when he moved to Hasbrouk Heights New Jersey just a few blocks from famed Jersey Mob Boss Willie Moretti, who was Sinatra's real-life Don to the fictitious Don Vito Corleone and Johnnie Fontaine (Sinatra) in Mario Puzzo and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather.

Frank's favorites at Patsy's were; Clams Posilipo, Veal Milanese (extra Crispy), and Meatballs (Veal Meatballs). Patsy's has become a sort of shrine to the great one, Francis Albert Sinatra and should be on the bucket list of anyone who calls themselves a major fan of the man, "Sinatra."

 

FRANK SINATRA

OLD SCHOOL ITALIAN RED SAUCE JOINTS

Past & Present

CELEBRATING The 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY of HIS BIRTH in 2015

Frank Sinatra Born 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey

Frank Spent a Lot of Time in New York

PATSY'S

Sinatra's Favorite Italian Restaurant

STILL HERE !  West 56th Street, New York, NY

ROCCO'S

THOMPSON STREET GREENWICH VILLAGE

GONE

Now It's CARBONE

Inside the former Rocco's

Now The Most Expensive Red Sauce Joint Around

It's CARBONE

JOHN'S of 12th STREET

Since 1908

STILL HERE !!!

GINO'S

Above and Below

GONE !!!

A Waiter and the Famous Zebra Wallpaper at GINO'S

No Longer With Us

Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner Dine at Patsy's

Rafetto's Past Shop, Greenwich Village New York

SINCE 1906

STILL GOING STRONG

 CAFFE REGGIO  

SINCE 1927

STILL GOING STRONG on MACDOUGAL STREET

GREENWICH VILLAGE NEW YORK

FERDINANDO'S SICILIAN SPECIALTIES

SINCE 1904

STILL With US on Union Street, Carroll gardens, Brooklyn, New York

"The Only Place left to get a good Vasteddi (Beef Spleen Sandwich) in NY

JOHN'S PIZZERIA

Bleecker Street greenwich Village, NEW YORK

SINCE 1927

STILL with US !!!!

Ferdinando's Brooklyn

Get The VASTEDDI SANDWICH

PIEMONTE RAVIOLI

SINCE 1920

Grand Street LITTLE IATALY,  NY NY

STILL with US !!!

Read About Italian-American New York

in Daniel Bellino's Best Selling SUNDAY SAUCE

Recipes and Stories of Italian-American New York

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SOPHIA

"JUST BECAUSE"

   

BEST MEATBALLS IN TOWN "NEW YORK TOWN"

The big question? Where to get the Best Meatballs in town, the town of New York City? I can easily answer that, and "It's Not The Meatball Shop" which no self-respecting Italian would be caught dead in. Not more than once anyway. Once to check it out. It's OK, but it's a rip-off and if you're looking for any kind of Italian feel, as the Big Boys would say "Fugg-etta-bout It!!!" The Meatball Shop is for non-Italians, those not fortunate to have a mother, Nonna, and Aunts that make Meatballs that would blows those of The Meatball Shop right out of the water. My Nonna, Aunt Fran, Aunt Helen, "the Best Meatballs you could ever wish to Imagine." But poor you if you're not Italian and you have to go to such a poor substitute as The Meatball Shop. If you really want great meatballs, The Best In New York as-a-matter-of-fact, go to where the late Great Frank Sinatra went, and head over to West 56th Street to Patsy's ... It was Frank Sinatra's all-time favorite. He ate there many times over the years. Patsy's is wonderful, with; great ambiance, real Italian American Food, The Best Meatballs in Town, and the spirit of one Francis Albert Sinatra, "Frank."

READ ABOUT 

ITALIAN-AMERICAN NEW YORK

FRANK SINATRA

adn HIS

FAVORITE FOOD

In 

Daniel Bellin-Zwicke's

"La TAVOLA"

Available on Amazon

"Yes PATSY'S Was My

All-Time FAVORITE Restaurant.

And if You Want to Make The Kind of Italian Food

That I Liked, Check Out La TAVOLA by One of My

Greatest Fans Daniel Bellino-Zwicke. Basta!"

ITALIAN AMERICAN ... WHAT IS IT?

There has long been a debate, fights, and Mud-Slinging in regards to Italian and Italian-American
food served in restaurants in New York and the rest of the U.S.. Culinary Snobs, people who "Think" they know what they are talking about and what not. I can set the record straight, being an
 Italian-American who has been eating Italian and Italian-American food for more than forty years, who has been professional Chef and someone who has eaten all over Italy on some 15 trips to the great peninsular. In addition to studying Italian Food in Italy for some 25 years, I am constantly reading all sorts of articles , cookbooks, and historical facts on this subject, in addition to being one of the countries foremost authorities on Italian Wine.
   Anyway, let me tell you. I myself was once a uninformed Food Snob who badmouthed and was slightly disdainful of unauthentic Italian food being served in restaurants all over the city. That's just in restaurants. Of course I Loved eating Sunday Sauce, Eggplant Parmigiano, and Meatballs that my aunts made at our frequent family get together s. And on the occasions that we weren't at one of the family's homes but in an Italian restaurant in Lodi or Garfield, I usually ordered Chicken  or Veal Parmigiano. Yes I loved it, but these dishes, for me at the time (1985-1993) had their place, and it was not in the kitchen or on the plates of any serious Italian Restaurant in Manhattan.
   Eventually as I learned more of the history of food in New York, Italy, and the World, I realized that there was actually a real true Italian-American Cuisine and that it was completely valid.
  Do you realize that if you think there is not a true valid Italian-American Cuisine, then you also must concede that there is No True French Cuisine, because the origins of what we now know as French food and Cuisine is really Italian. Yes, I said Italian. For the food and cuisine of French was quite primitive and did not begin to form into what we now know as French Food and French Cuisine until Caterina Medici of the Noble Florentine Family of the Medici married the King of France and brought her Florentine Chefs with her to the French Court way back in the 15th Century. So there. Many dishes which most people think of as French in origin, like Duck ala Orange, Bechamel, and others, are really Italian. "So there!"
   Anyway, back to Italian-American food. Food and cuisines are constantly changing and evolving. This is how Florentine Chefs of Italy, went to France with the newly crowned French Queen who was of the Italian Peninsular in one Katherine Medici  and taught the French how to cook. Thus Italians immigrating to the United States in the early 20th Century brought their ingredients and techniques from mother Italy to cook the dishes from their homeland, with some modifications do to financial issues (being poor) and the unavailability of certain ingredients, and started forming what would one day be known as Italian-American  food (Cuisine).




"to be Continued"


Daniel Bellino Zwicke

FRANK SINATRA

ONE of THE GREATEST

ITALIAN AMERICAN'S of ALL