Don Antonio by Starita
M-Th 11:30am-11pm, F-Sa 11:30am-11:30pm, Su 11:30am-10:30pm
Partners Roberto Caporuscio and Antonio Starita have stellar reputations in the world of pizza. Antonio’s family has owned a well-loved pizzeria in Naples since 1901 and it was in this restaurant that Sophia Loren filmed a scene in Vittorio De Sica’s 1954 movie, L’Oro di Napoli. Having studied the art of pizza making in Italy, including under the watchful eye of Antonio, Roberto came to the US to open his own restaurants – in New York, Keste’s on Bleecker Street has been serving some of the city’s best-rated pizza since 2009 and then with his friend, Antonio, the two opened Don Antonio by Starita in 2012.
The Manhattan Sideways team had a seat at the bar one afternoon and after finishing every bite of our perfectly prepared pizza, we agreed that the Burrata Roberto was superb. The thin crust was slightly charred, the way we love it, and topped with fresh burrata cheese, grape tomatoes, basil and olive oil – simple yet scrumptious.