It may not have any Michelin stars, but this restaurant on Staten Island in NYC is well worth the trip to get a taste of ...

I might never make red sauce without this again. Even if you grew up associating “gravy” with the white, sausage-studded ...

Enoteca Maria is so booked, in fact, that Nonnas director Stephen Chbosky revealed that he had a hard time booking a last-minute table for his star, Susan Sarandon. “Susan Sarandon’s assistant ...

Editor’s note: These stories were originally published in the Staten Island Advance and on SILive.com in 2007 when Enoteca Maria was new. The restaurant’s story is now the basis for the ...

Joe Scaravella is a true Brooklyn native who opened his restaurant, Enoteca Maria, on Staten Island in 2007. Just like in the film, the restaurant is named after his grandmother, Domenica, and his ...

S teps from the ferry terminal in the New York City borough of Staten Island, in a neighborhood overlooking the lower Manhattan skyline, is Enoteca Maria, a 35-seat restaurant where the chefs are ...

Enoteca Maria starts to fill up with customers. The credits roll to the sounds of classical Italian music. This would all feel a little too neat and tidy, too unrealistic, ...

Enoteca Maria recently celebrated its 18th anniversary. Scaravella is already dreaming of what’s next: a sequel film, another book, more ways to share the stories behind the recipes.

Nonna Lucia, one of the real chefs at Enoteca Maria. COURTESY ENOTECA MARIA 18 years after its opening, the restaurant has become the inspiration for the new movie Nonnas , now streaming on Netflix.

Enoteca Maria brought meaning to Scaravella and the nonnas’ lives, but in the kitchen, the knives were out from time to time. In Nonnas, ...

TIME went to the real Enoteca Maria to chat with the owner Scaravella over espresso. Boasting grey curly hair, small wiry eyeglasses, and a t-shirt with Gene Wilder’s face on it from Young ...