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Del Pezzo Restaurant

Del Pezzo Restaurant
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Restaurant information
Street address33 West 47th Street[1]
CityNew York
StateNew York
Postal/ZIP Code10036
CountryUnited States
Coordinates40°45′27″N 73°58′49″W / 40.75750°N 73.98028°W / 40.75750; -73.98028


Del Pezzo Restaurant was an eatery located at 211 West 34th Street (and later, on West 40th and West 47th)[2] in New York City. It was frequented by singers connected with the Metropolitan Opera Company in the early 1930s.[3] It was a favorite restaurant of Enrico Caruso;[2][4] he and Giacomo Puccini dined there during the latter's visit to the United States in December 1906. They were joined by Marziale Sisca, the dean of Italian-American publishers, who owned the newspaper La Follia.[5] The restaurant was also frequented by Life magazine staff members[6] and by artists, such as the group that first met in 1950 to establish Raphael Soyer's Reality magazine.[7] It was also the restaurant where Le Corbusier had lunch during his stay in New York for working the preliminary studies of the United Nations Headquarters, which were being prepared in a drafting room on the twenty-seventh floor of the RKO building.[8]

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  1. ^ "Directory to Dining in the City". The New York Times. April 5, 1968.
  2. ^ a b E.V. Durling, "Women Make Life Stretch"[permanent dead link‍], Milwaukee Sentinel, November 18, 1955.
  3. ^ Police Slay Thug Who Defied Search, The New York Times, January 20, 1931, pg. 5.
  4. ^ Simone Cinotto, The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City (University of Illinois Press, 2013), ISBN 978-0252095016, p. 199. Excerpts available at Google Books.
  5. ^ Puccini in America, American Heritage, April 1959, Volume X Issue 3.
  6. ^ Charles Champlin, A Life in Writing: The Story of an American Journalist (Syracuse University Press, 2006), ISBN 978-0815608479, p. 129. Excerpts available at Google Books.
  7. ^ Andrew Hemingway, Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956 (Yale University Press, 2002), ISBN 978-0300092202, p. 239. Excerpts available at Google Books.
  8. ^ Hellman, Geoffrey H. (May 3, 1947). "Profiles: From within and without II". The New Yorker. pp. 36–53.