© Rao’s 2024
Vegas Seven
As a New Yorker I miss home; I only get back East once a year. Luckily, there's no shortage of New York flavor to be found in Las Vegas.
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Haute Living
The legendary Rao's, known for its award-winning Southern Neapolitan Italian cuisine, has finally arrived in Hollywood.
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Forbes
Trendy restaurants come and go, generating lots of media buzz and remaining impossibly crowded and difficult to get into immediately after opening.
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Tasting Table
Walking into the new Rao's in Hollywood—the latest branch of Harlem's legendary old-school Italian haunt—feels like stumbling onto a movie set.
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Inside Hook
Three scenes you'll see in every mafia flick:
The botched body disposal, the fatal betrayal and the one where the fellas take down a bounty of red sauce and stewed meat fit for a small army.
Only one of those scenes is worth recreating.
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LA Confidential
Taking over The Hollywood Canteen's former location, award-winning Southern Neapolitan Italian landmark Rao's brings its cuisine to town.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Old-school Rao's – the notoriously tough-to-get-into dining spot in Manhattan – has compelled its devoted regulars, drawn from the city's intersecting spheres of politics, show business and the underworld, to head all the way up to East Harlem for 117 years.
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Urban Daddy
Mobsters. Cops. Meatballs.
Pitches concerning movies about mobsters, cops and meatballs.
Your week just got a lot more of... some of these things.
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The Atlantic Wire
The Italian-American red-sauce joint is making a comeback. And this time, the restaurants have a different clientele in mind, a group for which exclusiveness is key.
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Zagat
Having grown up working in his family's restaurant, the storied Rao's in East Harlem, open since 1896, Frank Pellegrino Jr. (aka "Frankie") knows a thing or two about hospitality.
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Forbes
If you are the Mayor of New York City, the Empire State's Governor, or a starter (benchwarmers take heed) for the Mets or Yankees, you have almost certainly dined at Rao's, and your photo may even be on the wall.
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