Italian Food and Culture Tour in New York City with Local Expert

The start point is St Anthony of Padua, which is he first church built in the Americas for Italian Catholics. We will see the church's Romanesque interior complete with magnificent marble altar and Corinthian columns.Sample this 10 person restaurant's sweet onion focaccia baked daily on sight, along with fresh prosciutto from the neighboring Pino's Prime Meat Market!Move to Unico Taste of Sicily, where you can taste this Sicilian Cafe's all natural, three ingredient, creamy gelato.Raffetto's. Savor a tasty and juicy Northern Italian meatball in this 1907 family owned Pasta Palace!At Porto Rico Importing Company you have a chance to smell the intoxicating aroma of over 100+ coffees and teas at this 1907 family-owned coffee shop.The next destination is Faicco’s Italian Specialties. See this 100+ year Italian Specialty Store and sample their fresh made arancini, rice balls from the family's old Neopolitan recipe!Pasticceria Rocco is Greenwich Village's last Italian Pastry shop and bakery.Now you are at Father Demo Square. This quaint square's vista of the church's bell tower juxtaposed with the fountain, gives tourists a look into Italian American of this neighborhood.See this gorgeous Italianate 1892 Church, the only NYC Roman Catholic Church with weekly Sunday Mass in four languages: English, Italian, Portugese and Tagalog/Phillipino!