History of Caffe Reggio GreenwichVillage NYC

Caffe Reggio

Greenwich Village

New York

CAFFE REGGIO

The Movie

MACDOUGAL STREET

GREENWICH VILLAGE

DOMENICO PARISI

The Founding Father of CAFFE REGGIO

Domenico Opened Caffe Reggio in 1927

He had a Barbershop there before, but it was always his dream to open an Italian Caffe. He scraped together the money to buy an Italian Espresso Machine that cost $1,000. A huge some in 1927. He opened the caffe, which was the 1st caffe in America with a coffee machine like they had bacck in Italy, but America never had one, not until Domenico purchased his and brought it to Geenwich Village, New York.

Domenico Parisi was from Reggio Calabria in Calabria, Italy, near Sicily. This is where his caffe gets its name Caffe Reggio from.

Dominico's Magnificent Machine

Mr Cavalacci

With DOMENICO'S MAGNIFICENT MACHINE

The CAVALACCI FAMILY bought Caffe Reggio from the Parisi's in the late 1950s.

CAFFE REGGIO

Circa 1950s

NYC

CAFFE REGGIO

Photo Daniel Bellino Zwicke

Caffe Reggio

Painting from The SCHOOL of CARAVAGGIO (Upper Right Corner)

A RENAISSANCE BENCH

From a MEDICI PALACE

FLORENCE

This bench is a Museum Piece, but it is not roped-off as one would think. You can actually sit in it, sipping your Cappuccino, people watching, as you admire a painting from The School of Caravaggio and other antiques and artwork. It's just magnificent, and only in New York, as they say, could you sit in a Renaissance Bench.

"And not only that. Look what;s Next !"

A CEILING FAN From CASABLANCA

The GREATEST MOVIE of ALL-TIME

Starring : HUMPHREY BOGART , INGRID BERGMAN

SIDNEY GREENSTREET,  PETER LORRE

and CLAUDE RAINES

Interview with FABRIZIO CAVALACCI

Owner of Caffe Reggio Since 1972

His Family bought the Caffe in 1955

Fabrizio tells the hsitory of Caffe Reggio. He said that before Dominic Parisi opened the caffe, he had a Barber Shop in the space. A Haircut was 10 Cents and took about 20 minutes to do one. Fabrizio says that Domenico's customers demanded a cup of Espresso with their haircut. After a while Domenico figured he'd open a caffe, as he could serve many more customers and make better profit than doing haircuts which he could only do 2 or 3 in an hour. And so Caffe Reggio was born in 1927 on Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village, New York.

AL PACINO

At CAFFE REGGIO

Christopher Walken

NEXT STOP GREENWICH VILLAGE

NEXT STOP GREENWICH VILLAGE

In The Movie SERPICO

AL PACINO plays Frank Serpico

Frank Serpico (in the Movie) lives on 5-7 MINETTA STREET

around the block from Caffe Reggio. In the movie, Serpico is taking Spanish Class at New York University, and one of his classmates, a girl says that she works at CAFFE REGGIO ...

SUNDAY SAUCE

ITALIAN IMMIGRANT RECIPES

SPAGHETTI SAUCE alla PACINO

CAFFE REGGIO

Painting by ELLEN BRADSHAW

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Sinatra Egg Sandwich Recipe

Frank Sinatra Enjoying one of his Favorites

An EGG SANDWICH

Made by His Valet George

Palm Springs CALIFORNIA

Recipe

Besides eating his Italian-American favorite foods, Frank loved eating a nice simple Scrambled Egg Sandwich on good old American white bread for breakfast and anytime during the day as a in-between meals snack prepared by his Valet George Jacobs ..

SCRAMBLED EGG SANDWICH alla SINATRA

Ingredients : 2 slices White Bread, 2 large Eggs, 2 tablespoons Milk, Butter, Salt & Black Pepper, 4 tablespoons Olive Oil

Place 2 tablespoons Olive Oil in a large non-stick frying pan and turn heat to medium low .. Add bread and cook until slightly brown. Turn bread over and cook to slightly brown. Remove from pan and set aside on the plate you will serve the sandwich.

Add eggs to a small bowl with a pinch each of Salt & Pepper and the Milk. Beat eggs with a fork until completely mixed …

Add remaining Olive Oil and Butter to pan and turn heat to medium.When the pan is heated and the butter starts to sizzle, add the eggs to pan and let cook while stirring for about 15 seconds. Turn heat to low and let the eggs cook without stirring for 45 seconds.

Flip the eggs over and let cook for 60 seconds on low heat. Turn heat off.

Place the cooked eggs on one piece of bread. Sprinkle a little salt & pepper over eggs. Top with second slice of bread and serve.

SINATRA SAUCE

The COOKBOOK

COOK & EAT LIKE FRANK 

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VEAL MILANESE

Frank Loved It

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Recipe

SUNDAY SAUCE

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BAKED ZITI

A SINATRA FAVORITE

From LERCARA FRIDDI SICILY

RECIPE

SINATRA FAMILY RECIPES

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Jimmy Cheeseman Mozzarella The POPE of GREENWICH VILLAGE

 

JOE'S DAIRY

Fresh Made MOZZARELLA in GREENWICH VILLAGE

This was the Cheese Shop That was JIMMY The CHEESEMAN'S Place

In The POPE of GREENWICH VILLAGE

Starrubg MICKEY ROURKE nd ERIC ROBERTS

 Paulie:  “You know about making Cheese Jimmy?”

“Not for nothing Jimmy, but my Mother dropped off a hunk

of your Mozzarella, and it was no great Bargain. It was a little

tough. Tough like shoe leather. Som

etimes your Mozzarella

is tough.”

JIMMY Replies : “What are you Crazy! The Garguzza’s never

sold a tough piece pf Mozzarella in their lives.” !!!

INSALTA CAPRESE

Made wih Fresh MOZZARELLA

BASIL and RIPE TOMATOES

Read About

How to Make

INSALATA CAPRESE

MICKEY ROURKE Talks About

The POPE of GREENWICH VILLAGE

Find out Where PAULIE ad CHARLIE

Went, all around GREENWICH VILLAGE

And LITTLE ITALY 

Film Locations in The POPE of GREENWICH VILLAGE

First Slice Pizza

Before there was Joe Namath, Joey Heatherton or even Joe McCarthy, there was Joe Stanziani, a World War I veteran who opened one of Greenwich Village’s first pizzerias in 1933 at the corner of West 10th and Fourth Streets. With its red-and-white tablecloths, Neapolitan nautical prints and Venetian blinds (which were usually drawn), Joe Stanziani’s became a prototype for the red-sauce spaghetti joints that once seemed to be on nearly every block of the city.

But Joe’s, as it came to be known, was defined by its proprietor, a gesticulating, chain-smoking former member of the Italian cavalry who ran the place like his living room.

When Mr. Stanziani died in 1978, his widow, Rita, leased the space to Andy Menschell, who called his restaurant Formerly Joe’s. Mr. Menschell replaced the mahogany paneling and brass chandeliers with track lighting and a turquoise and pink decor, and Formerly Joe’s flourished as an uncomplicated restaurant and neighborhood watering hole.

But in 1992, a lease dispute between Mr. Menschell and Mrs. Stanziani went to court, and the restaurant was shuttered. For four and a half years, the corner remained a boarded-up eyesore.

Andrew Nathan, a chef who owns Frontiere, a popular restaurant in SoHo, was one of many local residents who wondered what would become of the place. He recalled going to Joe’s for pizza with his grandparents when he was a child, and the many nights he spent winding down at Formerly Joe’s Cadillac-size bar after work as an apprentice chef at the Four Seasons.

”I always had a fantasy about opening a simple, laid-back neighborhood hangout,” said Mr. Nathan, 34, ”and that spot seemed the perfect spot to play out my dream.”

In 1993 he wrote to Mrs. Stanziani, who owns the building and lives there, asking about the space. She replied that it was not available. But one evening she secretly dined at Frontiere to size up his talents. The meal, she said, made a favorable impression, and two years later, she phoned Mr. Nathan to say that the lawsuit involving the previous tenant, Mr. Menschell, had been resolved in her favor. ”An hour later, I was over there,” Mr. Nathan recalled. Within days they had a deal.

Reminiscing last week about her years as a waitress and, after marrying the boss, as the manager of Joe’s, Mrs. Stanziani said: ”I knew a restaurant belonged there. And I’m thrilled with what I got.”

Reminiscing last week about her years as a waitress and, after marrying the boss, as the manager of Joe’s, Mrs. Stanziani said: ”I knew a restaurant belonged there. And I’m thrilled with what I got.”

This article was Published in The New York Times … March 22, 1998

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NOTE : The picture on the top of the page is the only picture we could find of Joe Stantziani's Pizzeria.

JOHN'S PIZZERIA

SINCE 1929

GREENWICH VILLAGE ITALIAN NEW YORK

"NO SLICES" !!!

SUNDAY SAUCE

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2. GO To YOUR LOCAL PORK STORE and or GROCERY STORE

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A LARGE POT.  ADD TOMATOES.

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5.  BROWN BRACIOLE, THEN ADD To POT With TOMATOES ..

6.  IF USING PORK RIBS or PORK NECK, BROWN COMEPLETELY

THEN ADD TO POT With TOMATOES .. If NOT, SKIP THIS STEP.

7.  LET SAUCE With THE MEATS (Except MEATBALLS)

SIMMER At VERY LOW HEAT For 1 HOUR.

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8.  BROWN SAUSAGES THEN ADD To SAUCE.

CONTINUE SIMMERING.

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9.  AFTER YOU ADD The SAUSAGES TO SAUCE, MAKE THE MEATBALLS

by MIXING GROUND BEEF, PORK & VEAL with SALT, PEPPER, GARLIC,

FRESH PARSLEY, and GRATED CHEESE. FORM INTO MEATBALLS.

10.  PLACE MEATBALLS in a LIGHTLY OIL PAN and SLOWLY COOK in A

350  DEGREE OVEN For 15 MINUTES.

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11.  REMOVE MEATBALLS FROM OVEN and PLACE in POT 

With SAUCE. The SAUCE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SLOWLY COOKING 

With THE BRACIOLE and OTHER MEATS For 2 1/2 HOURS by Now.

YOU Will JUST COOK The MEATBALLS in THE SAUCE For 15 

MINUTES on VERY LOW HEAT. BE CAREFUL WHEN STIRRING NOT To BREAK MEATBALLS.

WHEN THE MEATBALLS HAVE COOKED In THE SAUCE

FOR 15 MINUTES, The "SAUCE" IS DONE.

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12.  COOK RIGATONI or WHCICHEVER 

MACCHERONI YOU LIKE and SERVE

WITH THe "GRAVY"

PASS GRATED CHEESE

and

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