Foul Witch
Italian restaurant · East Village
15 Avenue A, New York, NY 10009
Highlights
Small-plates Italian wine bar featuring pasta, seafood, and meat dishes
Small-plates Italian wine bar featuring pasta, seafood, and meat dishes
"This offshoot restaurant from Roberta’s owners Carlo Mirarchi and Brandon Hoy is Foul Witch, self-described itself as “spooky Italian.” It turns out that meant lots of good and sometimes surprising dishes, particularly amongst its pastas (a current menu lists: honeynut squash cappelletti with pine nut.) This is one restaurant that will never bore you." - Robert Sietsema
"If you’re hunting for good free bread, eat at places with a track record for baking. This East Village wine bar is run by the people behind Roberta’s, who have historically excelled at using ovens. Their exceptional table bread comes in two forms: fluffy focaccia, and crusty baguette." - sonal shah, bryan kim, willa moore, will hartman
"The broth in their [tortellini en brodo] is reduced the right amount, where it's not quite a demi-glace, but it's just so rich and you taste the bones. It's velvety. There's just the right amount of little specks of oil on top and the tortellini themselves...the pasta is paper thin. You can see through it. It's translucent. It's the perfect size. You're not overwhelmed by it and you don't feel like you want to just like throw up or die at the end. They're just unpretentious and chill. It's not intimidating." - brennan carley
"If you’re hunting for good free bread, eat at places with a track record for baking. This East Village wine bar is run by the people behind Roberta’s, who have historically excelled at using ovens. Their exceptional table bread comes in two forms: fluffy focaccia, and crusty baguette." - bryan kim, neha talreja, sonal shah, willa moore, will hartman
"Carlo Mirarchi, chef-owner of Roberta’s and Blanca, is rolling out a Sunday tasting menu at Foul Witch (15 Avenue A, near Houston Street) priced at $95 with an optional $55 wine pairing; this week’s offerings include bluefin tuna tartare with heirloom tomatoes, a Dutch baby with duck liver and apple, eggplant with farro and squash, pici with cured lamb breast, wagyu zabuton with caraflex cabbage, and peach pepper sorbet among the dishes." - Melissa McCart
