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Good News, Williamsburg: ‘San Domenico at Half the Price’ Coming Your Way
We are told, by a source very close to the project, that a high-end Italian restaurant drawing on the cuisine of Emilia-Romagna is in the works for Williamsburg. It’s still a few months out, but the place has a proud pedigree: The chef will be Giancarlo Quaddalti, whose elemental regional Italian cooking has earned neighborhood followings at midtown’s Teodora, the Upper West Side's Celeste, and the East Village’s Bianca. Our source, an Italian national with only a slippery grasp of Williamsburg geography, tells us that it will be on Grand Street just off Bedford, but an exact address was asking too much.