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Da Toscano’s eating room when the restaurant opened in 2020.
Picture: Melissa Hom
The opening of da Toscano in 2020 was a homecoming for chef-owner Michael Toscano. Earlier than leaving New York and opening a restaurant in Charleston, he was the chief chef of Perla, the earlier tenant of the Minetta Lane area (and the place I as soon as labored as a server). This weekend, he’s vacating the area for good, as Sunday would be the closing evening of service at da Toscano.
However this isn’t a closing; it’s a transfer. Da Toscano is about to reopen only a week later, on March 2, contained in the century-old Iroquois Resort in midtown. The capability on the new location is nearly similar to the unique, round 60 seats, with lush mulberry-colored banquettes lining the circumference of the eating room. The earlier enterprise right here was referred to as Triomphe, designed by Adam Tihany; Toscano goes to maintain lots of these design components — marble ground tiles, chestnut-hued wooden paneling, and oculus skylight — whereas updating or changing the furnishings, sconces, and inside paint. A Berkel flywheel slicer will likely be stationed within the eating room to serve freshly sliced prosciutto to order. (Toscano additionally assumes management of Lantern’s Hold, the adjoining cocktail lounge contained in the resort. He doesn’t plan on altering the identify, however the brand new iteration will concentrate on Italian aperitivi. Room service, which runs out of the shared kitchen, will lean on that area’s extra informal menu, with dry-aged Bistecca burgers and prime-rib steak sandwiches dipped in brodo.)
Meals on the new da Toscano will likely be a lot the identical as the present restaurant: Octopus carpaccio and pappardelle with foie-gras-laced duck ragu each stay, together with dry-aged prime-rib steaks which can be gradual roasted for 12 hours earlier than they’re portioned and seared. Toscano says the midtown transfer received’t considerably have an effect on costs, which will likely be comparatively reasonable versus different Italian heavy hitters within the space equivalent to Marea and Ai Fiori. Additionally on the docket: breakfast and lunch. “Attending to unlock an influence lunch with high quality, lovely meals on this neighborhood may be very thrilling for us,” Toscano says.
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