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Manahattan, AROMA Kitchen & Winebar

Located in the East Village, between Bowery and Lafayette, we find ourselves in one the hottest spots in the Big Apple. The best quality Italian food in America rightly finds its natural home here, in Manhattan, one of New York's most important areas with its excellence in fashion and culture. Lovers of 'manicaretti all' italiana', pass by and pick at antipasti before the entrance to a local eatery. Fortunately we are not witnessing, fortunately, the threshold of the Dante's gluttonous third circle of hell, but the entrance to the "Aroma Kitchen & Winebar,". Here though, it is no sin to covet the pleasures of the dining table. The most intense aromas and flavors of Italian cuisine are brought to the table with the best of traditional dishes from all parts of the Bel Paese, where they reach perfect union with local wines from the very best Italian wine-producers. The entrance to this culinary paradise leads to a dimensions taste and quality that kidnap the senses. Doing the honors in house are Alexandra de Giorgio and Vito Polosa, and companions in life and in the daily running of the Aroma kitchen.

Aroma Kitchen & Winebar was inaugurated in March 2005 and is the culmination of a Alexandra and Vito's shared vision of quality food and wine. Despite hailing from different countries - she, Maltese and he, Italian - they are linked by the food and wine culture of the Mediterranean, characterized by the careful selection of quality raw materials and the attention with which they prepare their dishes. Even before they met and created Aroma, Alexandra and Vito were united by their passion for good food enjoyed fully in their respective families. It is within the family home in fact, that they had the opportunity to come to know the full wealth of this cuisine, and it is this type of experience that they want to provide to their customers's palates. Aroma, in fact, wishes to embody this spirit by putting on the table the best of traditional Italian recipes revisited with particular attention paid to their individual characteristics.

Aroma Kitchen & Winebar a journey to discover the essence of Italian cuisine

Care and attention to detail are reflected in simple dishes that evoke definite and all-encompassing tastes. A lunch or dinner at one of AROMA's tables is an oenological and gastronomic voyage of discovery into the particularities of Italian food culture. The menu includes some dishes typical of different Italian regions from the Sicilian street food Arancine (meat-filled rice balls), to the beef carpaccio with arugula and Parmesan of Piedmont. For the first course you may take a quick trip to Rome, with the tagliolini cacio e pepe or zip to Sardinia with Tricoli cannelloni made with ricotta, Sardinian pecorino and spring vegetable ragù. For the second course one may stop in Puglia with rabbit cacciatore with fava beans and chicory. To enhance the flavor of these dishes is an extensive wine list of 150 all-Italian labels. The friendly and attentive dining room staff take guests on this trip of the peninsula, recommending great matches with the best examples of native wines from all twenty regions of Italy. Aroma has become one of the city's landmarks for Italian cuisine, thanks to the passion of Vito and Alexandra, ideal promoters of the culture of high quality wine paired with the very best food, to further push back the boundaries of catering excellence. Guests are recommended perfect pairings which clearly highlight the labels' territories of origin. As examples, a Venetian "prosecco" may accompany calamari stuffed with roasted almonds, shrimp, capers, fennel, parsley, the pleasure of a "Morellino di Scansano" can be appreciated with the bucatini Cacio e Pepe or the intriguing aromas of a "Negroamaro" can become exalted with a plate of grilled swordfish spiedini (rolls) with Sicilian caponata.
 

The June 14th Dinner

On Tuesday June 14th, an evening will be totally dedicated to Puglia. For the occasion, guests will be given the possibility to taste an all-encompassing experience of Mediterranean food and wine culture through the typical dishes of Puglia combined with Tenute Rubino's finest expressions of the indigenous, monovarietal grapes of Salento. The tasting menu planned for dinner, including a pairing of braised cuttlefish with Giancola (Malvasia Bianca), a wine that perfectly accompanies the recipie's intriguing flavors. To follow, the class and harmony of the award winning Torre Testa, coming from Susumaniello grapes, will balance the to the broccoli ravioli with sauce with the lamb ragù in bianco. The main course, the rabbit cacciatore with fava beans and chicory, will be paired with the impeccable Punta Aquila a prestigious and pure Primitivo. In closing, an Aleatico will be combined with Bari pastries with zabaione and caramelized amarene cherries.

Aroma Kitchen & Winebar
36 E 4th St (East Store)
New York NY 10003
Phone: 212-375-0100
Fax: 212-375-0400
Email: info@aromanyc.com