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Eataly: In the best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert gets a book deal by spending three months in Italy stuffing her face with pizza, pasta, wine and gelato. You don't need a $700 plane ticket to stuff your own face with Italian treats thanks to the arrival of Eataly, Mario Battali's latest project. The enorme 50,000 square foot Italian gourmet market houses not only imported fare—from squid ink pasta to espresso—but four specialty restaurants, a standing-only café for wine and charcuterie, and a rooftop beer garden featuring wines on tap. Reminiscent of Euro-style cafeterias (minus the plastic trays), customers can stroll about the walkways selecting and sampling cheeses, meats, chocolates, produce, paninis, and of course, vino. Well, “stroll about” in the same way one can “stroll about” Times Square—which is to say, dodge swarms of gawking tourists. If you haven’t the patience for a 45 minute wait for the restaurants, grab a bottle of wine and a spread a la carte and cozy up to a handsome stranger at one of the standing-only communal tables. A few glasses later, you may not have a book deal but you will likely have a few stories. |
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