Paul & Jimmy’s of Gramercy • 1950

<cite index="1-1,7-3">Executive Chef Greg Azzollini guides the kitchen at this Gramercy Park Italian restaurant, where legendary baked clams and seven-layer lasagna rooted in Neapolitan tradition have anchored the menu for over seven decades</cite>. <cite index="11-12,17-1">Originally opened in 1950 on Irving Place by Paul and Jimmy Delgado, the restaurant was purchased in 1968 by Cosmo Azzollini</cite>, <cite index="37-6">who arrived from Molfetta, Italy in 1955</cite>. <cite index="1-2">Pull up a stool at the 1950s coppa-style bar or settle into velvet banquettes in the reimagined dining room</cite>, where <cite index="1-1">handmade pastas and timeless Italian-American classics make this corner of Gramercy feel like home</cite>.