NYC's Greatest Old-School Italian Restaurants, From Oldest To Newest - New York - The Infatuation

"After visiting red-sauce Italian restaurants all over the city, eating clams has become one of our most treasured pastimes, but there’s something about doing it across the street from a body of water that feels exactly right. Randazzo’s Clam Bar has been open since 1932, and although this Sheepshead Bay spot shines in the summer, we'd just as likely come here in the dead of winter to slurp raw clams and pretend we're in Florida. They’re famous for their fried calamari, which is served with a homemade marinara sauce that comes in both medium and hot varieties, but all the raw bar options are good too, and you can practically toss your empty shells into the water from the storefront." - willa moore, will hartman, sonal shah, neha talreja