I Cavallini
Italian restaurant · Williamsburg ·
Italian spot with seasonal ingredients, natural wines, and cocktails
Italian spot with seasonal ingredients, natural wines, and cocktails
"Now open seven nights a week at 284 Grand Street near Roebling Street in Williamsburg, the exciting Italian sibling to the lauded Four Horsemen expands from its Wednesday–Saturday 5 to 10:30 p.m. schedule to give more diners a shot at pastas and fried eel toast from executive chef and co-partner Nick Curtola, plus cocktails and a standout wine list." - Melissa McCart
"I found I Cavallini to be the must-get reservation in Williamsburg: run by the team behind The Four Horsemen and sitting right across the street from it, the room is understated—dusky light, dark paint, black-and-white tile and a long bar—but the portions are bigger and the cooking is squarely Italian. The wine list is exclusively Italian bottles, and my waiter’s selections pushed me to order across the menu: airy fried dough piled with culatello, a fennel salad with stone fruit and pecorino, buoyant trofie in a simple pesto elevated by Belper Knolle, and a bluefin belly on herby gremolata with tiny risina beans. It’s a tricky table to get, so treat a visit like an occasion and order broadly." - Charlie Hobbs
"More recently, the team opened the new Italian restaurant I Cavallini across the street in July." - Nadia Chaudhury
"What if The Four Horseman were twice as big and had a thing for Italy? The answer is I Cavallini, the long-awaited follow-up just across the street. Unlike its famous wine bar sibling, this place sticks to one genre, and dresses it up with seasonal flair. Think whipped ricotta with ripe cherry tomatoes, vinegary seafood panzanella, and fatty lamb sausage on overlapping tiles of avocado squash. Tables are already hard to come by, but there’s room for walk-ins—mostly at the bar. A line starts forming around 4:15pm. I Cavallini releases reservations two weeks in advance at 8am. All of the bar and counter seats are saved for walk-ins, and, in our experience, you can also get a walk-in table during the first seating. The trick is, line up outside no later than 4:30pm. When the place opens at 5pm, you should be seated right away." - Bryan Kim, Molly Fitzpatrick, Willa Moore, Will Hartman, Sonal Shah
"The long-awaited followup to iconic Williamsburg wine bar The Four Horsemen has finally arrived, right across the street. I Cavalini is significantly larger than its sibling and considerably more Italian. They’re serving things like fried eel toast, focaccia with whipped ricotta, and gnocchi sardi with shrimp and zolfini beans alongside a wine list that emphasizes low-intervention Italian producers. The place will also have something The Four Horsemen lacks: a cocktail list." - will hartman, willa moore, molly fitzpatrick, sonal shah, bryan kim
