WELCOME TO TORRISI
Helmed by acclaimed chef Rich Torrisi and housed in the iconic Puck Building in downtown Manhattan, Torrisi Bar & Restaurant is the spectacular new Italian restaurant from the creative forces at Major Food Group.
Torrisi Bar & Restaurant is a new Italian concept from Major Food Group and its co-founders Rich Torrisi, Jeff Zalaznick, and Mario Carbone. A grand New York destination inside the iconic Puck Building, Torrisi features a bustling bar, two dining rooms, and a menu inspired by our neighborhood of Little Italy and the city’s beloved culinary traditions.
Marking a full circle moment for MFG, Torrisi Bar & Restaurant is located at 275 Mulberry Street, just up the block from where the company’s story began over a decade ago with the ground-breaking Torrisi Italian Specialties.
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Restaurant Review: At Torrisi, the Room Is flamboyant, and the Cooking Is Modern Italian and World Mingled Progressive.
The nuanced Italian dishes are endowed with an alluring insistence from Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, and perhaps further.
Italian and American ham is served with zeppole. The menu draws from immigrant cultures in Little Italy and beyond.
From the street, Torrisi Bar & Restaurant looks like a movie set for an exciting place to swing with NYC strangers. That would be for viewers who don’t live in New York.
You cannot see inside the curtained windows, but you can read the restaurant’s name, alight in gold script, from across the street.
Black S.U.V.s with tinted windows wait at the curb. A doorman (or is he a bouncer?) in a heavy overcoat looks over each new arrival. The inside doors are tall and heavy.
Torrisi Bar & Restaurant NYT Critic’s Pick★★★
275 Mulberry Street
(Jersey Street)
no phone number provided.
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Atmosphere
Nothing served is small at Torrisi Bar & Restaurant, where the bar is almost as long as a city block. This means there are spots for would-be diners without reservations (some tables by the windows are also available).
The dining room has a mid-century setup, with circular booths surrounding round tables, all set with white linens. Service is a well-practiced, extroverted extravagance.
Apparently, gregarious young women prowling for food, drinks, and perhaps more intimate entertainment appear smiling into cameras. This is not the place in which to propose a marriage.
At Carbone (Traditional Italian in The Village, owned by the same firm) you might dare; not on your knee like a Disney cartoon character; more like a modern gentleman; you might propose marriage — At Carbone. Not here.
This is a place to launch something uhhemmm, a bit warmer, and closer. Not exactly a matrimonial proposal.
The food and drinks are perfectly executed and priced to reflect the excellent work made for people who want to experience the very best. The cooking is superb and deserves to be priced to reflect the chefs’ skills.
The restaurant is visited by young, prosperous people who may be looking for a fling, or may be looking for someone who might become their long-term partner. They are doing what modern, single young men and women do.
If a man meets a woman looking like the beauty walking down the ramp in this photo group, and she dances with him a lot and presses her body to his, it’s the obvious beginning of something that might become a long-term or permanent relationship. We might assume she came here hoping to find the partner she wants and needs.
Noise Level — Loud enough to cover some unpretentious, even outrageous propositions.
Recommended Dishes
Charred clam boule;- sliced boar’s head on rye;
- fennel and grapefruit cocktail;
- octopus Nha Trang;
- tortellini pomodoro;
- linguine in clam sauce;
- Dover sole Francese;
- black bass Dogana;
- duck alla mulberry;
- Sicilian date cake;
- frozen yogurt;
- Affogato.
Drinks and Vino
The Martinis, Manhattans, and Negronis are as exactingly mixed as the handful of fresh culinary inventions.
Some highly touted names—Gaja, Sassicaia — are poured by the glass at correspondingly high prices, but there are also wines for fittingly well-to-do mortals.
Prices $$$$ They’re not giving it away! In NYC the costs of operation are high, and no one can afford to give “it” away.
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Rumor has it sometimes you can get in for lunch on short notice. I recommend calling and asking before trying to drop in.
Reservations Accepted powered by Resy — Click this convenient link to go there directly.
Wheelchair Access: The dining room and accessible restroom, several steps above the Mulberry Street sidewalk, can be reached by an elevator inside the Jersey Street entrance.
RATINGS
Ratings range from zero to four stars. Zero is poor, fair, or satisfactory. One star, good. Two stars, very good. Three stars, excellent. Four stars, extraordinary.This information was last updated on March 2, 2023 and knowing what I do about the owner/operator, chef Rich Torrisi, he is constantly working to improve and maintain the highest standards.
MICHELIN Guide says;
Torrisi – a Star Rated, High quality cooking restaurant in the 2023 MICHELIN Guide USA. Free online booking, according to one article author, if you can battle your way to victory through their obstacle course to find it. That is why I went to the trouble to give you the precise link above to Resy.com Ooops there it is again. How did that happen? Oh well…. 🙂 HTTP://resy.com/cities/new-york-ny/venues/torrisi?
Others give any star rating between 2 and 5 stars. Take my word for this. If you were so smart and well supported to start a big name restaurant, you would be doubly certain your food was Superior too!
Bring a plastic card. Expect to spend some dough. Enjoy yourself. “Learn to love, help others, and have fun doing it. That’s part of why we’re alive.” I think Italians have always understood that. It’s part of their culture.
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