Best Italian on Staten Island
The 10 best Italian restaurants on Staten Island for 2026, from Enoteca Maria's rotating nonnas to Basilio Inn's 1921 carriage house. Picked by locals.
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- 1St. George · $$$ · 27 Hyatt St, Staten Island, NY 10301
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A tiny St. George dining room where the menu changes nightly depending on which grandmother is cooking, from Sicilian lasagna to a Belarusian nonna's salat Odessa. It is the real restaurant behind Netflix's 2025 film Nonnas and carries a Michelin Bib Gourmand in the current guide.
It tops the list because no other restaurant in the city runs on a rotating cast of real grandmothers and still holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.
Order Lasagna di Adelina with zucchini and basil pesto if it is on, otherwise whatever the visiting nonna made that night
It only opens Thursday through Sunday starting at 3:30pm, so reserve ahead and check which nonna is cooking before you commit.
@nonnasoftheworld ↗Enoteca Maria
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- 2South Beach · $$$ · 6 Galesville Ct, Staten Island, NY 10305
Basilio Inn has been serving Italian food since 1921 out of a circa 1850 carriage house near South Beach, making it one of the oldest restaurants in the borough. The kitchen turns out homemade pappardelle with veal ragu and littleneck clams, and there is a working bocce court in the garden.
It takes second because more than a century of continuous service in a carriage house with a bocce court is icon status no newcomer can buy.
Order Homemade pappardelle with veal ragu, plus littleneck clams to start
Go on a warm evening for the garden and bocce, and call before driving out because it closes for a stretch each winter.
- 3Tottenville · $$$ · 399 Ellis St, Staten Island, NY 10307
Angelina's fills a restored Victorian house on the Tottenville waterfront at the island's southern tip. The family-run kitchen leans Sicilian, with seafood-topped spaghetti pomodoro and veal scaloppini served against open water views.
It earns third because Michelin's Staten Island guide names it outright and the restored Victorian makes it the borough's big-occasion room.
Order Spaghetti pomodoro with seafood and crunchy panko breadcrumbs
Book a window table on Resy before sunset, since the water view is half the point.
- 4Great Kills · $$ · 4105 Hylan Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10308
Giuliana's is the Great Kills room that Tripadvisor currently ranks first out of more than a thousand Staten Island restaurants. The kitchen keeps old Sicilian dishes alive, including perciatelle con sarde with fennel, saffron, raisins, and sardines.
It lands at four because locals pushed it to the top of Tripadvisor's entire borough ranking while Michelin calls it a festive classic.
Order Perciatelle con sarde
Check the prix fixe menus on the website before you go, and book the private room early if you have a party coming.
- 5Stapleton · $$$$ · 44 Navy Pier Ct, Staten Island, NY 10304
Pastavino is a modern trattoria and enoteca on the Stapleton waterfront inside the Urby complex. Executive chef Josh Laurano cooked at Del Posto, Babbo, and La Sirena before bringing house-made pastas and a serious salumi board to the North Shore.
It cracks the top five because no other island kitchen carries this much Manhattan pasta pedigree, and the plates back it up.
Order Ricotta gnocchi with sweet corn ragu
Reserve on OpenTable and start with the salumi and formaggi before committing to a pasta.
- 6Rosebank · $$$ · 1271 Bay St, Staten Island, NY 10305
Don Cheech is chef Massimo Felici's white-tablecloth Italian-American room in Rosebank, opened after his Bib Gourmand spot Vinum closed in late 2024. The menu runs from chicken parm and carbonara to Tuscan wild game and a 16 ounce Steak Diane in brandy, shallot, mustard, and cremini sauce.
It ranks sixth because Felici moved Vinum's Michelin-recognized cooking into a room that still feels like a neighborhood regular's spot.
Order Steak Diane, the 16 oz NY strip in brandy, shallot, mustard, and cremini sauce
Come at lunch for the cheaper midday menu, or at dinner start with the calamari inzimino before splitting the Steak Diane.
- 7Eltingville · $$ · 4255 Amboy Rd, Staten Island, NY 10308
Patrizia's is the Eltingville outpost of the Brooklyn-born group, a high-volume Sicilian and Southern Italian dining room on Amboy Road. Family-style platters, broiled veal chops, and seafood pastas keep it one of the busiest Italian rooms in the borough, with more than 830 Yelp reviews to show for it.
It holds seventh because sheer volume and a relentless stream of current reviews make it the borough's default big-table Italian night.
Order Broiled veal chop, with a seafood pasta for the table
Bring a group and order family style, because the portions are built for the whole table.
- 8Port Richmond · $$ · 293 Port Richmond Ave, Staten Island, NY 10302
La Bottiglia is a Sicilian-owned sit-down restaurant that Nino Cusenza, a retired construction worker from Sicily, opened to help bring Port Richmond Avenue back. The menu covers fried calamari, chicken rollatini, and a seafood risotto packed with calamari, clams, mussels, and shrimp.
It earns eighth because the borough paper told Nino's story straight and he still works the room himself on live sax nights.
Order Risotto alla pescatore
Go on a night with live saxophone and let Nino steer the order.
- 9Grasmere · $$$ · 138 Fingerboard Rd, Staten Island, NY 10305
Da Noi is a long-running family-owned red sauce restaurant on Fingerboard Road near Fort Wadsworth, the surviving Staten Island location after the Victory Boulevard original closed. White tablecloths, veal, and house pastas fill an old-world dining room that came back strong after a fire renovation.
It takes ninth because generations of Islanders treat the Da Noi name as shorthand for a proper Sunday-dinner red sauce meal.
Order A veal entree with the house pasta in red sauce
Make sure you are headed to Fingerboard Road, not the closed Victory Boulevard address that still shows up in old listings.
- 10Oakwood Heights · $$ · 2879 Amboy Rd, Staten Island, NY 10306
La Fontana has been family-owned and operated on Amboy Road in Oakwood Heights since 1983. The room does old-school service with veal and pasta entrees, private dining rooms, and a Strawberry Flambe for dessert.
It closes the list because four decades under one family on Amboy Road is staying power most of the island's newer rooms are still chasing.
Order Caesar salad to start, Strawberry Flambe to finish
Start with the Caesar salad the regulars swear by and save room for the Strawberry Flambe.