Spaghetti And Meatballs appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Spaghetti and meatballs · New York City
Spaghetti and meatballs is New York red-sauce Italian-American: long spaghetti coated in a long-simmered tomato sauce, topped with two large pork-and-beef meatballs and a snow of Parmesan.
Spaghetti and meatballs is an Italian-American invention codified in New York's Little Italy by southern Italian immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Italy itself never plated it; it is a New World creation). The cheap-protein meatball plate became the staple of red-sauce restaurants across Manhattan and Brooklyn (Rao's in East Harlem, founded 1896; Patsy's in Midtown; Frankies 457 Spuntino in Carroll Gardens). Carbone in Greenwich Village (opened 2013) repositioned it as a fine-dining set piece with $30 meatballs and a tableside ricotta finish. Via Carota plates a refined Tuscan-leaning version. The canonical New York Italian-American comfort plate.
Where to eat in New York City:
- Carbone
- Frankies 457 Spuntino
- Via Carota