There is a wonderful quality about Italian cooking that makes it a great for first dinner date anywhere you are in the United States. Other than Italian marinara sauce and pizza, Italian cuisine has established itself to be a universal language of food because in just about every city of the world, there is that groovy quiet Italian restaurant that adds excitement to the area's local cuisine. The appreciation for Italian food plainly exceeds race, nation and borders.



More than a century ago, Immigrants from the culturally rich villages of Italy reached the shores of USA in search of better opportunities. Some of them Settled in Soho . They brought with them traditional family recipes from their heritage, and cooked their way on to many families and restaurants in the state, in time making a niche for Italian food among the populace.

Not too much time passed before the original Italian restaurant was founded in New York in the year 1906. Established by Sebastiano Maioglio, the Barbetto is an important historical landmark in New York since it is the first and well regarded Italian restaurant in New York. It was the first restaurant formally declared as a historic Establishment in America. It is still held today by the Maioglio family, specially his girl Laura Maioglio.

Nowadays, New York City has been center of the world's biggest number of Italian restaurants. Italian pizza was without a doubt the precursor to the evolving Italian food in New York City, but there are other factors for it.

Among these are lasagna, and the spaghetti and meat balls that is one of the regular fare in most Italian restaurants. There's the celebrated vintage Italian wine bars that functions as a welcome alternative to other pricier joints. More Italian goodies found its way to New York with the trattoria, which came from various cities in and around Italy. And of course, who would ever forget Italian spaghetti? And naturally, the ultimate dining experience is not complete without savoring yet another Italian-born specialty, the remarkable wines of Italy.

Italian food offers one of the more distinguishable cuisines, so it is no question why newfound Italian restaurants keep sprouting up all over the neighborhoods especially in Soho . A fast investigation of local menus would show that a plethora of nice Italian food from the Italian region and its adjacent places. One would see culinary joys are as wide-ranging as penna alla vodka, lemon fried chicken, chicken marsala, salmon crudi, and other Italian cuisine. New York most probably has the largest number of Italian restaurants in the USA.

A vacation in New York will not be perfect without exploring its staggering Italian restaurant scene. So if you are in the city be sure to have a hearty appetite, make room for food sampling tours, and a good restaurant guide.

These are some of most liked Italian restaurants in Soho and close by.

You can discover Numero 28 in the Village. This is not one of your ordinary "by the slice" Italian restaurants. Reminds you of Italy. All the ingredients were fresh and it tasted very good .

PT Restaurant is located in Brooklyn. Make a point to have chioccolate tart which is really like a ladder to heaven.