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Pietro’s Steakhouse Is Reopening in Midtown at a New Home | Eater NY

"A decades-old Italian steakhouse is returning to Manhattan, relocating a couple of blocks from its former home at 232 East 43rd Street to 890 Second Avenue (near East 47th Street), with a plan to open the new restaurant in August, according to a spokesperson; Lee & Associates and Stellar Management facilitated the real estate deal alongside a broker from Cushman & Wakefield. This will be the restaurant’s third move (it relocated in 1984 from a brownstone to the East 43rd Street address) and its roots go back to 1932, when brothers Natale and Pietro Donini founded it after coming from Parma, Italy. The longtime caretakers have been Bill Bruckman (who married into the family) and his son David Bruckman, and the Bruckman family is behind this relaunch: per a spokesperson, “They will have the same recipes and will capture the same old-school Italian charm that patrons knew and loved at the previous location!” Coverage in 2023 noted that while regulars may have “aged out of” being “the power-player,” the spot still deserved credit as one of the city’s “most overlooked” Italian steakhouses (Grub Street), and a New York Times eulogy recorded longtime fans such as Michael Kors, who said, “There is no Carbone without [the restaurant].” He added, “and I’ve always liked that you can still feel some of the ‘Mad Men’ era here. [The restaurant] is the last of the Mohicans.” External expansion attempts have been mixed: a Long Island offshoot in Roslyn opened by another Bruckman son, Billy, closed after less than a year in 2024 (Newsday). The family has also signaled a desire to modernize: Bill Bruckman told the Times last year, “It’s bittersweet, but it’s time to bring [the restaurant] into the 21st century,” noting practical reasons for change — “I’m not going to miss having to repeatedly kick our air-conditioner to get it to work.”" - Emma Orlow