Rocco Restaurant
Rocco Restaurant was founded on Thompson Street in Greenwich Village by Rocco Stanziano in 1922. This old-school Italian 🇮🇹 restaurant was known as a mob joint and also attracted a celebrity clientele over the years including Marilyn Monroe &Joe DiMaggio, Johnny Depp and Robert De Niro. Mario Batali also worked at the restaurant as a chef. Sadly, this family-owned restaurant was forced to close in 2012 after its landlord raised its rent from $8,000 a month to $18,000 a month. The storefront was taken over by Carbone, an Italian-American restaurant in 2013 owned by Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi and partner Jeff Zalaznick who remodeled the interior but left the remnants of original neon signage from Rocco’s and added in neon the words “Carbone and “Wines Liquors” (swipe left for 2nd photo).
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Let us know if you have eaten at Carbone (we have not but did dine at Rocco’s) as it is expensive and notoriously difficult to get a reservation.
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Rocco Restaurant
Rocco Restaurant was founded on Thompson Street in Greenwich Village by Rocco Stanziano in 1922. This old-school Italian 🇮🇹 restaurant was known as a mob joint and also attracted a celebrity clientele over the years including Marilyn Monroe &Joe DiMaggio, Johnny Depp and Robert De Niro. Mario Batali also worked at the restaurant as a chef. Sadly, this family-owned restaurant was forced to close in 2012 after its landlord raised its rent from $8,000 a month to $18,000 a month. The storefront was taken over by Carbone, an Italian-American restaurant in 2013 owned by Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi and partner Jeff Zalaznick who remodeled the interior but left the remnants of original neon signage from Rocco’s and added in neon the words “Carbone and “Wines Liquors” (swipe left for 2nd photo).
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Let us know if you have eaten at Carbone (we have not but did dine at Rocco’s) as it is expensive and notoriously difficult to get a reservation.
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#storefront #italianfood #redsauce #jamesandkarla #disappearingfaceofnewyork #italianfoodie #italianfoodlovers