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chocolate Brindiamo! is the leader in sharing the culture, lifestyle and cuisine of Italy. Brindiamo! has now and then taken viewers to the newest and most authentic Italian restaurants in New York City and around doesn’t hurt. the world for the past eleven years. ” Brindiamo! Restaurant Week will include a collection of the fnest Italian restaurants that have been featured on Brindiamo!, along with - Charles M. Schulz other favorites throughout New York City. Brindiamo! Restaurant Week will take place the last week of October to close the celebration of Italian Heritage month, October 24th-30th, 2016. Hello, Bike along and discover I am Ornella Fado, founder and owner of OK Productions LLC, a media production company great Italian restaurants in based in New York City. I am also the creator of New York City! all aspects of the Brindiamo! brand including the two time Telly award-winning television show Brindiamo!, a television program, which has aired weekly on NYC Life since 2005. Brindiamo! is a celebrative collection of TV programs dedicated to all lovers of Italian traditions and lifestyle; and was created to satisfy the curiosity for one of the most fascinating cultures in the world. Brindiamo! provides an informative, educational and fun window into everything Italian–from travel, to food and lifestyle. Brindiamo! has been an unforgettable experience for me as both a businesswoman and an artist. Please join me as I bring you more of the very best of Italy in America, from the comfort of your living room. Ciao Ciao, Ornella Fado Restaurant Week Specials: $25 Lunch Prix-Fix $35 Dinner Prix-Fix pizzarteny.com 69 W 55th St, New York +1.212.247.3936

Owners Ofering the fnest Bruno Cilio & cuisine, prepared with Dario Cipollaro the highest standards, PizzArte always uses the The pizzeria and ristorante PizzArte has a very important best quality ingredients mission: to bring true Neapolitan cuisine to the city of - sourced both locally New York. and imported directly from Italy.

In addition, the restaurant features a changing gallery of contemporary art that creates a one- of-a kind experience for patrons. Restaurant Week Specials: www.lamasserianyc.com $25 Lunch Prix-Fix 235 W 48th St, New York $35 Dinner Prix-Fix +1.212.582.2111 La Masseria® Authentic Italian Cuisine An upscale Italian restaurant, Masseria, meaning “farmhouse” in Italian, delivers the unique favors of authentic, Italian cuisine right in the heart of Manhattan.

Chef/Owner Pino Coladonato with Partners Peppe Iuele & Enzo Ruggiero Restaurant Week Special: Complimentary Appetizer donantoniopizza.com 309 W 50th St, New York +1.646.719.1043

If you love pizza this is the place to go... Don Antonio ofers more than 60 traditional and new, creative, wood-fred Neapolitan pizzas, crafted from the fnest ingredients - including homemade mozzarella.

Ornella Fado & Roberto Caporuscio on Skype with Don Antonio Starita while flming an episode of Brindiamo! Owner Roberto Caporuscio & Don Antonio Starita Restaurant Week Specials: Chef Rafaele Ronca, $25 Lunch Prix-Fix winner of the Food $35 Dinner Prix-Fix rafele.com 29 7th Ave S, New York +1.212.242.1999 Network Series Chopped in 2016, and his business partner Romeo Palmisano, do their best to provide every customer with a warm and friendly atmosphere with food that will have you coming back again and again. Visiting Rafele is like visiting your family in Italy, but in the West Village.

The restaurant specializes in Neapolitan cuisine, and always uses local, fresh ingredients. Restaurant Week Specials: $25 Lunch Prix-Fix zagaranyc.com $35 Dinner Prix-Fix 216 7th Ave, New York +1.646.490.8801

“My passion and love for cooking is what you taste and Zagara Ristorante & Wine Bar is located in the heart of experience in my dishes.” Chelsea. The restaurant has a lively energy and an elegant Chef Giuseppe Mazzeo ambience, perfect for coming together with friends. Restaurant Week Specials: $25 Lunch Prix-Fix $35 Dinner Prix-Fix

angelinasristorante.com 399 Ellis Street, Staten Island +1.718.227.2900

Loyal patrons of Angelina’s restaurant say you can, “Just take a bite, close your eyes and feel as Dining at Angelina’s restaurant is always a magical if you are in Sicily.” experience. If you have a special occasion to celebrate, this is the place to go. In My Kitchen

After many years of visiting exquisite Italian restaurants and cooking with some of the greatest Italian chefs, two-time Telly award winner and TV personality Ornella Fado has decided to invite her favorite chefs to cook in her own kitchen for a new, exciting season of Brindiamo!

Brindiamo! In My Kitchen, a new weekly TV series produced by OK Productions, created and hosted by Ornella herself, will feature a diferent guest chef for each episode of the season’s 13 episodes. Each chef will create up to 5 dishes, all of which will be prepared with the freshest and most exceptional ingredients on the market.

The “Home” and Ms. Fado’s new kitchen is located in the beautiful Urbani Trufe Labora- tory on the Upper West Side of New York City, accompanied by a live audience and music.

Be sure to look for Brindiamo! In My Kitchen coming soon! Restaurant Week Specials: $25 Lunch Prix-Fix $35 Dinner Prix-Fix

trattorialincontro.com Rocco has brought 21-76 31st St, Astoria so much passion and +1.718.721.3532 knowledge in the past 17 years that Trattoria L’incontro Trattoria L’incontro opened its has become a staple doors in 1999, and has been restaurant in Astoria. a great success since day one thanks to Chef and owner Rocco Sacramone.

The dishes are prepared using the fnest ingredients and chef Rocco is, as always, dedicated to ofering his clients the best favors this side of the East River. Restaurant Week Specials: $25 Lunch Prix-Fix $35 Dinner Prix-Fix Brioso, which in Italian means briosorestaurants.com “lively,” continues to ofer a 174 New Dorp Ln festive environment every day. Staten Island +1.718.667.1700

Brioso Ristorante is a family‐owned restaurant that has served authentic Italian cuisine to Staten Island since 1995. The three brothers and co-owners Pietro, Calogero & Rafaele Di Maggio were born and raised in Torretta, a small town near Palermo, Sicily. Restaurant Week Special: Complimentary Appetizer www.kestepizzeria.com 271 Bleecker St, New York +1.212.243.1500 Owners Giorgia & Roberto Caporuscio. A perfect father- daughter team, Giorgia is the Classic Pizza-Making World Champion and has been named the best female pizza maker in the world.

In addition to many traditional pizzas prepared with a wood-fred oven, the menù also showcases an assortment of gluten-free pizzas as well as several vegetarian and vegan options.

Kesté, meaning “this is it” in the Neopolitan dialect, opened in the heart of Greenwich Village in 2009. Restaurant Week Specials: www.masseriadeivini.com $25 Lunch Prix-Fix 887 9th Ave, New York $35 Dinner Prix-Fix +1.212.315.2888

A superb Italiana restaurant with an extensive wine list, Masseria dei Vini is a chic and updated version of “La Masseria.”

The menù, created by Executive chef Pino Coladonato, blends elements of both traditional and modern Italian cuisine to ofer the best of both worlds to its clientele. Coming soon... a water so elegant you can toast with it!

Acqua B! by Filette, with a nitrate-content of just 0,3 mg/l, is one of the world’s purest waters, with rare organoleptic properties. The entire world was shocked by the terrible earthquake that struck Amatrice, Italy in the middle of the night on the Amo 23rd of August, 2016. Amatriciana

Over the past few weeks, Italian restaurants in New York City have come together to support the victims of the earthquake in Amatrice with the initiative called AMO AMAtriciana. The famous Amatriciana pasta sauce originated in Amatrice, a small town in the province of Rieti, in the region of Lazio, Here are a few images of the event on October 2nd in Little Italy where ten of AICNY’s chefs teamed up to bring a taste of the famous not too far from Rome. The Amatriciana is one of the most Amatriciana pasta to New York City. well known Italian and Roman pasta sauces, and has gained All proceeds went to support the victims of the earthquake. international appeal. Octopus Garden is the largest in-house processor of tenderized Spanish octopus and cuttlefsh in the United States.

Many of New York City’s fnest Italian restaurants prepare delicious octopus dishes thanks to the high quality ingredients from Vincenzo Cutrone’s Octopus Garden. A special thank you to all who made this 2nd edition of Brindiamo! Restaurant Week possible!

Photography: “For my hair I trust my Stephen Shadrach hairstylist Federico!” Federico Fumolo Francesca Zavettieri No matter what the occasion, I know that Federico will take care Design: of my hair and will Christin Ariel Pettibone always make me feel camera-ready. Project Assistant: Liliana Rosano

Grazie and Ciao Ciao,

Thank you, Federico! Ornella Fado