"If you’ve got a hankering for panettone, good news: the head pastry chef at Realmuto Alta Pasticceria in the West Village apparently won a world championship for the Italian specialty. His mammoth pasticceria and restaurant is in the old West Village Gourmet Garage space. In addition to Italian pastries, they’ve got a lunch and dinner menu full of pastas and other trattoria classics." - will hartman