Spadaro Roman Kitchen — Restaurant in City of New Rochelle

Wow! I've seen this place countless times on my trips up and down Main St. in New Rochelle but it was not until one of my ex-students suggested an unofficial "reunion" dinner there that I visited this gem!

No menu! They tell you what's fresh as far as meats, vegetables and fish are concerned and then you tell them how you want it cooked --- the skies the limit. Confused? Not to worry. Rina (our host) will you coach you (as she coached us) through the process and makes spot-on recommendations.

We were a party of six. We started with a few appetizers to share amongst us --- an eggplant parmigiana with a pistachio-based sauce that caused one of us to order a take-out dish for his wife, an order of meatballs, fried octopus (never had it but glad I tried it), a fried cauliflower-mash with a great sauce.

For dinner we each ordered separately --- a whole-fish branzino (fileted in the kitchen), a salmon dish, a chicken parmigiana, a veal marsala (me), a veal parmigiana and a veal pizzaiola, A family-style rigatoni with ground sausage served as our pasta and each of us ordered a vegetable of some type (Broccoli Rabe was a favorite). Red wine complemented the dinner. No way we could make room for desserts but we did have some coffee/espresso/cappuccino and some Limoncello for a after-dinner cordial. [I took home a cannoli and I wish I had taken home a half-dozen.]

Antonio (Rina's husband) is a wizard in the kitchen, cooking all our meals. Irina, our waitress, was superb, and of course Rina (our host) was fantastic; treated us like family. This is my new go-to place on my next visit to the NYC area. [I live...

Spadaro’s overall was a 3 for us for a few reasons. On the plus sides - staff is very warm, welcoming and attentive. On the minus side - every dish was under seasoned, lacked flavor and were clumsily executes. I ordered clams in white wine sauce which tasted like pasta with olive oil. I had like 20 mini-cherry clams, which made eating this dish quite tedious. Nestled in the pasta we’re lumps of whole garlic, and soggy grilled cherry tomatoes. My husband rigatoni and sausage with dandelion leaves was the same. Nothing special and needed salt. I couldn’t justify the lack of a menu. It felt a little try hard that the “chef was from Rome,” so he “makes the dishes fresh every day,” so he doesn’t have a menu. Okay. The dishes offered here are very typical Italian. Nothing that would warrant not having a menu. Seems like someone thought it would elevate the restaurant to employ this high end farm fresh tactic but it doesn’t work when the food offered is what usually appears on an Italian menu and is just average tasting. Not to mention that the balsamic glaze served with the burrata was a sour factory made glaze served to you in the original plastic bottle to be poured on by the customer like one would pour ketchup. Tip to Spadaros - focus on the food, good food doesn’t require gimmicky “no menu” nonsense. You aren’t high end and that’s okay just season the food well and get rid of the damn factory made balsamic. Put salt shakers on the table. Your grilled bread is amazing. Meatballs were good. Ingredients are super fresh. Focus...

We just moved into the neighborhood recently and didn't think much of this place. There are flashy places in the area and this place is easily overlooked. My family and I wanted Sunday dinner and after looking at the website for a quick second we said hey let's just give it a shot. Small Italian restaurant just really looking for a dish a macaroni what could go wrong.

Well let me tell you nothing went wrong, not a single bite.

We walked in to this unsuspecting restaurant in a strip mall and we were blow away. We didnt have a reservation but they fit us in anyway, (albeit cramped, but we couldn't complain we didn't call ahead, which I suggest to do) and the service was phenominal. Hospitality ✅️.

Menu, basically of the day as we were informed, which was memorized by the waitress is traditional Italian and you taste the love in every bite.

For apps we had eggplant in this pistachio sauce, and fried zucchini flowers which would have been enough there. Dinner there was spaghetti amatriciana, linguini with clams and lamb chops. Holly hell every bite was on point. My family loves amatriciana and are fans of a creamy sauce. Theirs in red sauce and blew any amatriciana we have ever had or made away. Lamb chops were charred perfect and still cooked med rare to rare with not a hint of grey in it. Linguini with clams didn't have a hint of a fishy taste at all. Pasta was amazingly al dente.

Ambiance was great, music was on point.

Can't say enough they welcomed us to the neighborhood with open arms and we will for...