The new restaurant is larger than its older sibling, with 64 seats (tables, bar, and counter) and a bigger kitchen. The dinner menu features in-house-made pastas, including the bucatini with tomatoes and ricotta salata ($30), and the gnocchi sardi with shrimp, beans, and herb butter ($32). Other dishes include the fried eel toast with pine nuts and golden raisins ($24); roasted golden chicken with garlic and grilled hearts ($49); and the olive oil cake with berries ($18). Drinks include the all-Italian wine list with more than 100 bottles. Then there’s cocktails, which is new for the team, many with amaro, such as the Shakerato Rickey with amaro, lime, and soda ($18); the Pomozoni with Italian gin, doladira, lemon, tomatoes, and salt ($19); the Safe Harbor with a dry gin, fino, coconut, cucumber, absinthe and soda ($18); the after-dinner Dolce Amaro Fizz with amaro noveis, hazelnut, coffee liqueur, egg yolk, cream, and prosecco ($21); plus beers, nonalcoholic options, and coffee.
I Cavallini co-partners are executive chef Nick Curtola (who also oversees the kitchen of the Four Horsemen), managing director Amanda McMillan, James Murphy, Christina Topsoe, Randy Moon, and Stacy Fisher (who is the wife of the late partner Justin Chearno). The rest of the team includes wine director Flo Barth (who worked with Chearno at the Four Horsemen), bar director Jojo Colona (who worked at Attaboy), general manager Kendra Busby, and sous chefs Jonathan Vogt and Max Baez. Reservations can be placed online, but there is room for walk-ins — good luck to anyone trying their luck at this on opening week!
Sushi Ichimura will close after service on Thursday, August 14. As Eater reported earlier this year, Sushi Ichimura opened the 10-seat sushi spot in 2023 from the esteemed Eiji Ichimura — who set forth a new chapter on high-end omakase in New York — and Kuma Hospitality, also behind the restaurant l’Abeille (both were featured in Celine Song’s summer movie The Materialists). At the time, the group suggested that Ichimura was retiring, but he has denied that that’s the case. Kuma is working to flip the space into a new concept at 412 Greenwich Street, near Laight Street, in Tribeca. Eater has reached out for more information.
A roast beef sandwich icon of South Brooklyn turns 55
Roll N Roaster in Sheepshead Bay is celebrating its more-than-five decades in operation with a bunch of BOGO (buy-one-get-one free) food deals on Tuesday, July 15, like its roast beef sandwiches. Don’t miss out on that collectible special-edition pen, either.