FARMINGDALE, NY — Gino's of Farmingdale is not just a pizzeria anymore. The restaurant added several new food and drink items, reminiscent of Italy, from gelato and other Italian desserts to different ...

Pasta Project in Farmingdale is taking an Italian tradition and giving it a mass-market, quick-serve, maximalist American twist. Pasta alla ruota — pasta tossed in a hollowed-out wheel of cheese — ...

Fresh pasta doesn’t have the hard-at-the-center kind of al dente quality that dried pasta does; the entirety of a fresh noodle is evenly, and even softly, al dente. That is its state of being. I ...