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Arthur Avenue Food Tours

Name: Arthur Avenue Food Tours
Address: 2344 Arthur Avenue, New York, NY, 10458, US
Telephone: +17186186264
Price range: $$
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Take the tour on your own with our app ($9.99. Narrated and guided by Arthur Avenue Food Tours's founders, Danielle Oteri and Christian Galliani.
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If you’ve ever dreamed of meandering around Arthur Avenue’s historic markets and stores, snacking and shopping, stocking your pantry like an Italian nonna and gathering ingredients for a big Sunday supper, this is the tour for you. Chicken parm and Bronx tales, first-pressed olive oil and hand-pulled mozzarella, bubbly Neapolitan pizza and fresh pasta cut to order, coal oven-baked loaves and barre

ls full of briny olives, it’s all on Arthur Avenue. Danielle Oteri is a food writer and art historian whose family’s Arthur Avenue shop opened in 1918, the Shopping & Tasting tour draws on 102 years of history and community. Christian is an award-winning sommelier and an Italian wine expert. Or take a guided tour with an expert host. This tour visits 10 historic food shops to meet the shopkeepers and find out what’s best in each shop. Along the way you’ll enjoy a cheese tasting, pizza al taglio, and a fresh-filled cannoli.

07/15/2024

Our Saturday Shopping & Tasting Tour is starting to sell out for October! 😮 Book now if you’d like to join us this fall. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

06/17/2024

If you’re a movie buff, check out the classic film “Marty” filmed and set on Arthur Avenue in 1954. The opening scene was shot in Oteri’s Meat Market, owned by our Uncle John Oteri, who you see in the first picture next to actor Ernest Borgnine. Back then it was a very big deal to have such an A-list production in a working-class immigrant neighborhood that few non-Italians ever visited. “Marty” went on to win Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor at the Academy Awards in 1955 as well as the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. And you can still visit the set of Marty, because it’s still there today, now as ! ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

06/01/2024

On Arthur Avenue you can get many different styles of pizza, but when you want the best New York City style classic slice, you go here. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

05/27/2024

The unofficial start to summer means it’s the official start of sidewalk raw bar season. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

04/20/2024

When you can’t decide between cannoli and cake, we’re here for you. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

04/15/2024

Many of the stores where the food on this table were purchased are still in business! Little Italy in the Bronx, more casually known as Arthur Avenue is an amazing time capsule of family run Italian food shops, many of which are over 100 years old. In NYC where development is rapacious and things change constantly, Arthur Avenue is an anomaly and a miracle. And it only survives if people keep shopping here! Come join us to learn all the delicious secrets. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

04/01/2024

Happy Easter! ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

03/20/2024

What a lovely lunch with our friend Michelle who has led Arthur Avenue Food Tours in the past! Now she teaches Italian cooking at and leads tours of the wild and delicious Abruzzo region of Italy with . We had lunch at which is exactly what you wish an Italian restaurant to be. 👨‍🍳 💋 ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

03/08/2024

Happy 🌼🌼to Grazia Oteri, the matriarch of Arthur Avenue Food Tours. She raised her six children in the apartment above the shop at 2374 Arthur Avenue and was known for being able to estimate the weight and price of a piece of baccala with a quick glance of the eye. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

02/20/2024

Every Saturday, after finishing the group tour, we notice people visiting Arthur Avenue for the first time, looking enthusiastic but...confused.

Yeah, the regulars notice you.

That's because most of the shoppers have been coming here for a lifetime, and they know exactly what to get. They may go to three different bread bakeries and two different butchers because they know the specialties of each place. They come with bags on wheels and coolers in the trunks of their cars.

If you want to know what everyone else knows, get our digital guidebook. It tells you what is best in each of the shops and includes the complete itinerary of the Shopping & Tasting Tour.

Each copy is map-synced and can be used by two users. Get a friend, and head up to the Bronx for a foodie adventure in New York's real Little Italy!

Purchase here: https://www.saltete.com/guides/a-shopper-s-guide-to-arthur-avenue-little-italy-in-the-bronx

01/27/2024

I want to write a cookbook of recipes from the first generation of Italian immigrants on Arthur Avenue. They didn’t have much money or even a refrigerator and they had a lot of children to feed. So they ate simple dishes of mostly pasta, beans and vegetables that were healthy and comforting like this pasta fagioli. If you search online you’ll find a zillion recipes for pasta fagioli but this one is the simplest and most traditional.

Give it a try and tell me what you think!

Ingredients
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
2 canned, peeled tomatoes
1.5 teaspoons of salt
3 cups of canned white beans
6 ounces of tube shaped pasta like ditalini
1 clove crushed garlic

In a medium sized pot, add water and 1 teaspoon of water and bring to a boil. Cook the pasta until almost cooked or very al dente. Drain but reserve 1 cup of the pasta water.

While the pasta is cooking, use a separate saucepan, gently heat
the olive oil and garlic until the garlic becomes translucent.

Squeeze the tomatoes with your fist and let them drop into the pot. Stir with a wooden spoon to further crush them and cook for 3-4 minutes. Add the remaining 1/2 teaspoon of salt.

Add the beans and the bean water from the cans. Bring the entire mixture to a light boil and then simmer so that the beans absorb the flavor of the garlic, tomatoes and olive oil.

Add the pasta and the reserved pasta water to the bean and tomato
mixture. Simmer over a medium heat for 2-3 minutes or until the pasta is fully cooked through. The pasta should be very soft, not al dente.

Ladle into a bowl and serve hot with a sprinkle of grated pecorino
cheese.

01/20/2024

Discover the roots of Italian American food with us in Southern Italy.

We’ll forage for truffles in the Cilento National Park (guess where many of those “Alba” truffles come from), and make fresh ricotta and traditional Easter pies. The jewel of this week is a cooking class at Antica Trattoria di Pietro in Irpinia, which has been open since 1934. The restaurant will be closed for us as we cook in the kitchen with the Di Pietro family, who upholds Southern Italy’s culinary traditions.

The home base for our trip is Borgo La Pietraia, a gorgeous property overlooking the Amalfi Coast and the Cilento Coast owned by my Italian relatives. It’s in the small town of Capaccio-Paestum, which is also home to Italy’s best producers of buffalo mozzarella, an abundance of organic farms, and three Michelin-starred restaurants. It was also my grandmother’s home before she moved to Arthur Avenue. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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12/25/2023

Merry Christmas to all! ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

12/12/2023

Have you been trying to get on the Shopping & Tasting Tour, but keep finding it sold out? We’ve now put our complete shopping and tasting tour together in a digital, map, synced, guidebook! Published by you can do the complete itinerary self-guided. Each copy is also shareable with one other person, so find a friend and do the tour together. 🍕 🇮🇹 🇺🇸 🎄 ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

12/12/2023

Want to go on a self-guided tour of Bronx Little Italy? Our Shopping & Tasting Tour is now available as a map-synced digital travel guide. Each copy can be shared with another person, so give it as a gift and make a date to come shopping on Arthur Avenue.

Purchase here:

12/10/2023

Beautiful music today in front of Calabria Pork Store

11/12/2023

The big time cooking and feasting season is upon us! Where do you shop on Arthur Avenue for your Thanksgiving dinner?

10/15/2023

Scenes from Saturday’s Shopping & Tasting Tour hosted by Alexis ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

09/23/2023

Another successful of

09/10/2023

The vinegar carrots at Mario’s. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

08/24/2023

Special food tour today with my favorite godsons

08/17/2023

If you like, Arthur, Avenue’s old-school vibe, come with us to Italy the spring where we will cook through the traditions of southern Italy at Easter time. All the details are on our website.

08/06/2023

Carbonara and Amatriciana are surprisingly easy to make. Characteristic of Italian cooking the “secret” is high quality ingredients. Get homemade guanciale at Calabria Pork Store, pecorino Romano at Teitel’s, and farm fresh eggs at Biancardi’s.

07/22/2023

Mozzarella made by hand instead of a machine is a totally different thing. When you find it tied in little knots like these, you’re enjoying “nodini” which is how they make mozz around Bari.

07/15/2023

Get this on Saturday to make French toast on Sunday 👀

07/08/2023

Somebody get a melon, it’s summertime on Arthur Avenue. 🍈

06/26/2023

Who wants to join us in South Italy in 2024 for a week of cooking and wine tasting? Go to our website and put your name on our mailing list because the deets are coming soon!!

06/24/2023

We love when shares his family story with our tour guests.

05/24/2023

Oh hello 👋 ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

05/13/2023

Our guests always love the chance to see the oldest coal burning oven in NYC! Churning out bread since 1903 💪 🥖 ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

Address

2344 Arthur Avenue
New York, NY
10458

Opening Hours

Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm
Saturday	9am - 6pm

Telephone

+17186186264

Website

https://arthuravenuefoodtours.com/

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We celebrate International Women’s Day with a dedication to the women of Arthur Avenue who have been so frequently overlooked. This is an animated photo of my great-grandmother Grazia Oteri. On the census her occupation is listed as “homemaker” but anyone who shopped at the Oteri Baccala Store knew she was always behind the counter, keeping a sharp eye on business. Though she was illiterate her sons marveled at how she could quickly add numbers in her head and precisely guess the weight of a piece of baccala just from looking at it. Historically most of the Arthur Avenue shops had a woman behind the scenes who was also tending to the children, cooking and cleaning for the entire family, and getting very little credit for it all. Today we salute tutte le donne. ⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #arthuravenue #nyeats #arthuraveeats #reallittleitaly #thebronx #nyceats #bronx #newyork #foodtour #arthurave #nyc #foodnyc #bronxlittleitaly #onlythebest #tradition #feastonhistory #thebronxdoesitbetter #littleitaly #bronxbites #foodstagram #nychistory #bronxeats #foodandwine #newforkcity #italianfood #internationalwomensday #festedelledonne #womenshistorymonth

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Little Italy in the Bronx, New York’s best concentration of mom-and-pop food shops.

In 1918 my great-grandparents Albino and Grazia, immigrants from Naples, opened their shop on Arthur Avenue. A decade later, their store is still here and our family business has expanded to introduce serious food lovers to our Italian village in the Bronx.

As seen on CNN Travel, USA Today’s 10 Best, the Los Angeles Times and the cover of The New Yorker...

Discover the true Little Italy of New York City, also called simply “Arthur Avenue” a close knit neighborhood of Italian food shops, most of which have been in business for over 100 years.

Our signature Shopping & Tasting Tour + Lunch includes a walk across Arthur Avenue and 187th Street.

Over the course of 2.5 hours we visit butchers, bakers, cheesemakers, pasta artisans, import stores and the famous Arthur Avenue Retail Market. We’ll taste the most special foods in the neighborhood and meet the people behind the counter who are keeping these Italian food traditions alive and well.

As we walk from shop to shop guests learn about this historic NYC neighborhood. Stories include:

How the Lorillard family once owned this pastoral land and used it for to***co production

How Arthur Avenue was named

The surprising connection between the Italian community and the neighboring New York Botanical Garden and Bronx Zoo

What makes our tour unique is that it is an authentic experience of this neighborhood drawn from generations of stories and relationships. Your experience of Little Italy will be an extension of ours. We’re a family business that has been on Arthur Avenue since 1918, first as a fish shop, then as a butcher shop which served as a set for the Academy Award winning film “Marty” and now as a tour operator.

If you’re coming for the food, join our Pizza, Pasta & Parm Tour, a roving feast of Italian and Italian-American classics including cacio e pepe, eggplant parmigiana, pizza and chicken parm.

We’re also Italian food and wine experts. Husband-and-wife team Danielle Oteri and Christian Galliani lead food and wine tours in the Cilento, a region of Southern Italy where the Mediterranean Diet was discovered. Danielle’s food and travel writing has been published in Conde Nast Traveler, Roads & Kingdoms and NPR while Christian is a sommelier who was on the wine team at Michelin-starred Del Posto, lead sommelier at Tarry Lodge and and Beverage Manager at Eataly Downtown.

We pride ourselves in offering a world-class food tour that highlights small, family businesses. We're proud to have earned a 5 star rating on TripAdvisor, Facebook and Airbnb Experiences and to have our work featured in the Los Angeles Times, CNN Travel, USA Today, Paste Magazine, Westchester Magazine, Hudson Valley Magazine and Edible Bronx.

Would you like a closer look at what the tour is like? Watch co-founder Danielle Oteri in this video about the real Little Italy featured on CNN Travel.

We offer our Shopping & Tasting Tour 5-days a week starting at 11am in front of the Arthur Avenue Retail Market 2344 Arthur Avenue. Tours are $79 per person and $45 for children. Tastings included on the tour are equivalent to a large lunch.

Private tours for friends, families and corporate groups are also available. Multigenerational family celebrations are our specialty! Visit www.arthuravenuefoodtours.com for more information.