Film Feast

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honoring director Sergio Leone. Please call for the menu and film schedule. In the weeks to come we will be showing the films of such directors as Almodovar, Kurosawa, Lee, Scorsese, Wyler, Jarmusch, Wilder, Nichols and many...

for not providing him with change of a $20. With the opera music blaring, it felt like a Scorsese-esque shootout was going to happen shortly. Oh, yeah, the food. I requested the “chicken combination.” I eventually...

, a wonderful evening – one of those ‘la familia’ passing the wine & dishes around the table scenes. (The fact my dad has Martin Scorsese glasses helped...) We have their 30% off card, I thought prices had gone...

Dinner in Brooklyn — Becoming an Extra in a Real Life Martin Scorsese Movie I ate in Gargiulo’s about a dozen years ago when I fell asleep on the subway on my way to downtown Manhattan and woke up in Brooklyn. I...

have done without the resultant dog farts, but she was always happy. The steaks I picked up every now and then for myself were very good, as well. Story goes that Martin Scorsese's mother used to live across the street, and would...

't forget the table settings! Martin Scorsese spent four years of his life collecting the Victorian china, silver, and linens he used in “Thr Age of Innocence.” Watching it may give you some idea of what the standards...

of Italian Soho, and the Scorsese tradition east of Broadway. Even Gitane, a hipster spot on Elizabeth (I get mixed up) opposite Old St Patrick’s, has excellent food, full of value. Like the cous cous, or the chicken...

Italian beef like pretty much no where else. When you can look out the window in between bits and see the old ladies on the stoop and Mario’s Lemonade stand, it is nearly a Scorsese movie scene. The parking lot also proves...

Basells on Victoria Street is a place not to be missed. Big inexpensive greasy, greasy breakfasts in a place that looks like a set from a Scorsese film.

I’m making Catherine Scorsese's lasagna with the hopes of celebrating Marty’s first Oscar statuette (finally!). Not only is it thematically spot-on — if I do say so myself — but it can be made ahead fo...

Mmmm, here’s a foolproof recipe from Catherine Scorsese that I absolutely love (personally, I often make it without the candied fruit, but it’s more traditional with it): Ricotta Pie Crust: 2 cups all-purpose flour 1...

to the card counters in Scorsese's “Casino”?

have the expected NYC-themed humorous names for specialty pies – the Martin Scorsese, the Miles Davis, etc. I laughed at the warning on the John Gotti pizza: “MUST BE 18 OR OLDER TO ORDER.” The place is extremely...

am hardly surprised to find food writers responding defensively to its implications. Maybe someone should start a thread in which food writers defend their place in the time-honored tradition of criticism, point out that A.O....