Don Angie

Don Angie, the West Village Italian-American restaurant opened by chefs Scott Tacinelli and Angie Rito on Greenwich Avenue in 2017, has established itself as one of the most beloved and creatively accomplished restaurants in New York — a restaurant that takes the Italian-American culinary tradition seriously and then renovates it with skill, affection, and genuine culinary intelligence. Tacinelli and Rito worked together at Union Square Hospitality Group restaurants before striking out to open a restaurant devoted to the kind of Italian-American cooking they grew up eating and loving: meatballs, Sunday gravy, chicken Parmesan, the full canon of red-sauce culture. But rather than reproducing those dishes uncritically, they examined every element and asked whether it could be more interesting, more technically precise, more surprising without losing the comfort and familiarity that makes Italian-American food emotionally powerful. The result is a menu where the pinwheel lasagna — individual spirals of pasta layered with meat filling, baked, and served upright like flowers — has become one of the most photographed and discussed dishes in New York. The calamari alla plancha is cooked on a flat-top rather than deep-fried, achieving a different texture; the branzino is roasted with flavors that reference southern Italian tradition while reading as something new. The dining room is intimate and warmly lit — a West Village townhouse setting with a neighborhood energy. Reservations are competitive; booking on Resy two to three weeks ahead is the reliable approach.