In New York, Il Mulino (where Bill Clinton and Barack Obama ate pasta together on the one-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers’ collapse), Emilio’s Ballato (where Leonardo DiCaprio takes beautiful ladies for plates of spaghetti in SoHo), and Patsy’s (where Frank Sinatra had his own table) share noodles. Along with 200 other restaurants around the city, much of the pasta on their menus is made by the Raffetto family.
In 1906, Marcello Raffetto opened a small pasta shop in Greenwich Village. Fourteen years later, he bought a building around the corner, at 144 West Houston Street, moved Raffetto’s there, and passed the business down to his brothers, who then passed it down to their two kids.
