"We wanted to make somewhere we dreamed of eating at" Mario Carbone and Jeff Zalaznick on bringing NYC cult Italian restaurant Carbone to Mayfair
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"We wanted to make somewhere we dreamed of eating at" Mario Carbone and Jeff Zalaznick on bringing NYC cult Italian restaurant Carbone to Mayfair
"It's no exaggeration to say that Carbone has been New York City's it-restaurant since it opened in 2013. For 12 years, this has been Greenwich Village's see-and-be-seen joint: where on any given Tuesday you might spot Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, or even a president (Obama apparently ordered a Dirty Martini when he dined here during a UN visit in 2015). The waiting list for a reservation is almost as famous as its clientele."
"On paper, what Carbone offers is simple. Owners Mario Carbone and Jeff Zalaznick say they wanted to create "the kind of restaurant that we grew up with." "This style of New York, American-Italian food - it was always fun, but it was never great," Carbone, who graduated from the Culinary Institute of America, tells me when I ask what led them to open his namesake restaurant. "We said, 'We love this kind of place we've been going to since we were kids.""
Carbone began in Greenwich Village in 2013 and became a high-profile, celebrity-frequented destination with famously long waits. Owners Mario Carbone and Jeff Zalaznick focused on elevating classic American-Italian red-sauce dishes by using superior ingredients and highly trained chefs alongside meticulous, attentive service led by staff called Captains. Signature plates include spicy vodka rigatoni and veal parmesan served in a glamorous, scene-y dining room on the former site of Rocco. The restaurant paired nostalgia with culinary rigor to generate pop-culture success and has now expanded its presence to London.
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