Photos by Stacie Joy
Salumeria Rosi finally made its East Village debut last Wednesday at 222 Avenue B between East 13th and 14th streets.
This is the second NYC location for the northern Italian restaurant and salumeria, which first opened on the Upper West Side in 2008.
The new location closely follows the Uptown model, offering housemade pastas, salumi and imported cheeses, antipasti, and a concise Italian wine list, while adding a neighborhood café that opens earlier in the day.
The café begins service at 8 a.m. daily, with coffee from Italian roaster Hausbrandt and a selection of breakfast pastries, including cornetti, sfogliatelle and maritozzi, as well as tarts and croissant sandwiches.
At 11:30 a.m., the dining room opens for lunch, serving panini alongside the full menu. Beginning at 5 p.m., the space transitions to dinner and bar service. (Find the menus here.)
The menu centers on northern Italian dishes, including seasonal antipasti, fritti, fresh pastas, etc. Standbys from the Upper West Side location carry over, along with nightly pasta specials and a few East Village-specific additions.
Owner Andrew Loscalzo (below) designed the space himself, drawing inspiration from Milanese style and traditional salumerias.
The previous tenant here, The Roost, a coffee bar by day and speakeasy-esque cocktail lounge by night, closed in the spring of 2024. We first heard about Salumeria Rosi's plans around that same time.
