Modernizing a 115-Year-Old Mainstay By Panyin Conduah Published Mar 12, 2015 at 5:44 pm (Updated Mar 9, 2015) Make text smaller Make text larger ShareThis Ottomanelli’s has found to ways to stay current, while retaining its old-world appeal Every week for the rest of the year, Our Town will celebrate its 45th anniversary by profiling…
Since 1900, it has been catering to the carnivores of New York City with its unbeatable steaks, filet mignon, steak burgers, prime rib, lamb, veal, seafood and more. Savvy New Yorkers traveling throughout New England are easily spotted by the Ottomanelli’s green thermal bags they carry, which are filled with the butcher’s delicious steaks, steak…
This old-school Upper East Side butcher and its separately owned crosstown cousin keep carnivores happy with top-quality cuts, including prime meats, poultry and game, alongside excellent Italian accented prepared foods (baked ziti, lasagna); factor in excellent value (though still not cheap) prices and knowledgeable, helpful service, and surveyors ask how can you go wrong?; N.B….
Excerpted from “Home Again On the Kitchen Range” by Marian Burros Nick Ottomanelli has been watching buffalo muscle in on prime beef at the three Ottomanelli Brothers butcher shops in Manhattan and Queens his family owns. Prime beef sales have gone down 8 to 10 percent. Mr. Ottomanelli said. Bison took off, and sales have…
Excerpted from “Finding Dry-Aged Beef in Manhatten” by by Florence Fabricant These are some of the shops and restaurant markets that do their own dry-aging or sell beef dry-aged elsewhere… Ottomanelli Brothers – Steaks and ribs are dry-aged by the York Avenue store.
Dear Nick: The celebration of my 70th birthday party with many of my friends and family and colleagues at the Bohemian Grove in California was a marvelous success. The repeat performance by you and the Ottomanelli Famliy is once again, as you did for my 65th birthday, in delivering sixty (60) superb New York Strip…
Ottomanelli NY Grill, Three NY Locations (93rd Street). The renowned Ottomanelli Brothers have opened a deluxe new kitchen for catering and take out. Chef Kathleen Weber and staff provide dry-aged beef cuts, favorite Italian meals, homemade soups, and scrumptious desserts, all of the finest quality imaginable. Telephone: 212-426-6886. Open seven days a week, currently 11:00…
“Ottomanelli Bros. Ages their beef to perfection. Great Beef Wellington, milk-fed veal and free-range orgainic chickens, Since 1900.” “Ottomanelli Bakery Lines form around the block in the morning for the halfpound muffins, but they’re worth the wait.”
“Annoyingly, most butchers seem to keep bankers’ hours. You can get around this by finding out who delivers. Simchick’s in Turtle Bay, and Ottomanelli Brothers on the Upper East Side, for example, can be trusted to bring gorgeous prime steaks to your midtown office, or leave them with the doorman, on relatively short notice.”