What To Expect At Caffe Vivaldi

What you will not see are bright, polished "neat" looking table tops. Our tables are made of real travertine Italian marble with antique brass bases. Our old wooden chairs have a history and are mostly positioned in approximately the same spot where they were when they first seated the likes of Andy Warhol, Al Pacino, Woody Allen, Bette Midler, John Cusack, Rob Reiner, Joseph Brodsky and many others. We have a fireplace and it is usually lit on cold evenings.

Visit us and experience the charm of how the Village used to be in the days of Bob Dylan, Coltrane, Edgar Allen Poe and others captured in the movies, and documentaries shot at Vivaldi.

We offer the best of everything that the Village is famous for

Food

We cook our food the most healthy way we know: Induction cooking, using professional cook tops made by one of the most reputable manufacturers in this country: Cook Tek.

Our supplies come not from the giants of food industry but mostly from the local legendary Village master food purveyors.

We are a slow food establishment as almost everything is made from scratch. As such expect to wait longer than usual for your meals.

Since most of the items on our menu are prepared to be sold the same day, we usually run out of food by 11pm. However, after 11pm you can still order our cheese plate or desserts to go with your single malt, favorite cocktail, wine or beer.

Our Sauces

Prep time does take extra hours, but we prefer to make our own sauces from scratch, the old fashioned way. Pesto sauce is made with basil leaves only - no stems- and organic pignoli nuts. Marinara from organic tomatoes and extra virgin olive oil. Our herbed wine sauce for chicken and sea food is so delicate that it has to be made right at the time of serving not a minute before.

Our pasta

The freshly made pasta we serve comes from Raffetto's on Houston Street. They have been making pasta daily for over 100 years.

Our cheeses

Morbier, Asiago, Camozola and fresh Mozzarella cheese come from Joe's Dairy on Sullivan Street - now in their eighth decade of operation. Their Mozzarella cheese, regarded by most critics as one of the best in the world, is made in the room behind their counter.

Our chicken

It comes from Ottomanelli Brothers, the famous gourmet butchers, operating on Bleecker Street for almost six decades.

Our sea food

We buy all our sea food from the Lobster Place, one of the finest sea food purveyors in the country, also located on Bleecker Street and in the Chelsea Food Market.

Desserts

Desserts are custom made for us - mostly from creations by the celebrated Italian executive pastry chef Salvatore Settepani at Pasticceria Bruno.

Drinks

From our famous Irish coffee and Brandy Apple Cider to Single malts and cocktails – we have a full bar.