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Eater
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Eater
The Four Horsemen's Anticipated Italian Restaurant Is Finally Here
Fresh off celebrating the Four Horsemen's tenth anniversary, the team has opened their hotly anticipated new restaurant across the street. I Cavallini is opening in Williamsburg on 284 Grand Street, between Havemeyer and Roebling streets, starting on Wednesday, July 16. The new restaurant is larger than its older sibling, with 64 seats (tables, bar, and counter) and a bigger kitchen. The dinner menu features in-house-made pastas, including the bucatini with tomatoes and ricotta salata ($30), and the gnocchi sardi with shrimp, beans, and herb butter ($32). Other dishes include the fried eel toast with pine nuts and golden raisins ($24); roasted golden chicken with garlic and grilled hearts ($49); and the olive oil cake with berries ($18). Drinks include the all-Italian wine list with more than 100 bottles. Then there's cocktails, which is new for the team, many with amaro, such as the Shakerato Rickey with amaro, lime, and soda ($18); the Pomozoni with Italian gin, doladira, lemon, tomatoes, and salt ($19); the Safe Harbor with a dry gin, fino, coconut, cucumber, absinthe and soda ($18); the after-dinner Dolce Amaro Fizz with amaro noveis, hazelnut, coffee liqueur, egg yolk, cream, and prosecco ($21); plus beers, nonalcoholic options, and coffee. I Cavallini co-partners are executive chef Nick Curtola (who also oversees the kitchen of the Four Horsemen), managing director Amanda McMillan, James Murphy, Christina Topsoe, Randy Moon, and Stacy Fisher (who is the wife of the late partner Justin Chearno). The rest of the team includes wine director Flo Barth (who worked with Chearno at the Four Horsemen), bar director Jojo Colona (who worked at Attaboy), general manager Kendra Busby, and sous chefs Jonathan Vogt and Max Baez. Reservations can be placed online, but there is room for walk-ins — good luck to anyone trying their luck at this on opening week! The fried eel toasts at I Cavallini. Nick Curtola/I Cavallini Ichimura's final days Sushi Ichimura will close after service on Thursday, July 14. As Eater reported earlier this year, Sushi Ichimura opened the 10-seat sushi spot in 2023 from the esteemed Eiji Ichimura — who set forth a new chapter on high-end omakase in New York — and Kuma Hospitality, also behind the restaurant l'Abeille (both were featured in Celine Song's summer movie The Materialists). At the time, the group suggested that Ichimura was retiring, but he has denied that that's the case. Kuma is working to flip the space into a new concept at 412 Greenwich Street, near Laight Street, in Tribeca. Eater has reached out for more information. A roast beef sandwich icon of South Brooklyn turns 55 Roll N Roaster in Sheepshead Bay is celebrating its more-than-five decades in operation with a bunch of BOGO (buy-one-get-one free) food deals on Tuesday, July 15, like its roast beef sandwiches. Don't miss out on that collectible special-edition pen, either.
Time Out
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
The Four Horsemen is finally getting a follow-up restaurant, a whole acclaimed decade later
Ten years after James Murphy and crew quietly revolutionized the wine bar scene with The Four Horsemen, the team is finally ready for their sophomore act—and they're not straying far. I Cavallini, a 70-seat Italian(ish) restaurant, opens Wednesday, July 16 just across the street from their Williamsburg cult classic, with chef Nick Curtola again at the helm. If The Four Horsemen is a cozy vinyl-spun whisper of a restaurant, I Cavallini is its roomier, moodier sibling with a passport full of Italian stamps and just enough swagger to pull off eel toast. (Yes, that's a thing—crispy-fried with pine nuts and golden raisins.) The name translates to 'the little horses' and the vibe lands somewhere between Florentine trattoria and downtown wine haunt with vintage glassware, reclaimed ceiling beams and an actual sculpture nicknamed Randy. While the initial vision leaned entirely Italian, Curtola and his team wisely zagged. 'A lot of that food works because you're in Italy and you're in some beautiful city in some beautiful old restaurant and there's a nonna in back doing the cooking,' Curtola told Grub Street. 'It felt weird being in Brooklyn trying to re-create that.' So instead of rigid authenticity, I Cavallini channels Italy's soul with a Brooklyn filter: mussel panzanella with lovage and pickled green tomatoes, nervetti salad tossed with chive-blossom vinegar and a bluefin tuna dish with chervil gremolata and rare risina beans imported from Umbria. On the drinks side, it's a full pour: a 100-bottle all-Italian natural wine list (assembled with a wink to late partner and wine savant Justin Chearno) and original cocktails by JoJo Colonna of Attaboy. Think: a Prosecco-meets-absinthe Milo Spritz, a tomato-gin Pomozoni and the mezcal-soaked Cavallo Giallo. Desserts are anything but an afterthought. Honey gelato and melon sorbet get served in Depression-era glassware, while the tiramisu, inspired by Florence's famed Trattoria Cammillo, gets built to order with overnight-soaked ladyfingers and espresso from cult roaster Maru. Many Four Horsemen day-ones are crossing the street to help bring this new vision to life—chef de cuisine Ben Zook, sous-chefs Jonathan Vogt and Max Baez and wine director Flo Barth among them. And with music-geek-worthy acoustics, a menu that sidesteps clichés and just enough sentimental detail, I Cavallini already feels like more than just a sequel.
