| |  | Mia Dona | | | “Mia Dona, the newest outpost from Donatella Arpaia and Michael Psilakis continues the tradition begun at Dona, and celebrated at Anthos. Treasured dishes su...” —opentable | | Cuisine: Italian |
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| | | | | | That'll get the juices flowing. After a bread basket heaped with focaccia and garlic, and a bonus appetizer of grilled figs with gorgonzola, wrapped in prosciutto and painted with balsamic vi... Read More | | | | | | Restauranteur Donatella Arpaia and Chef Michael Psilakis have been busy. Every few months, they seem to be closing one restaurant and opening another. Donatella Arpaia and Michael PsilakisIn less than five years, Arpaia has opened six restaurants. One closed, and she severed ties with another, leavi... Read More | | | | | | A group of six food-board acquaintances had dinner this week at Mia Dona. We’d all been before and were impressed with Michael Psilakis’s inventive take on Italian cuisine.Alas, Mia Dona has regressed to the mean. Between us, we tasted sixteen dishes. They were all competently done, but mostly routi... Read More | | | | | | On Sunday evening, I ventured with WH to Mia Dona in Midtown East. The latest creation of Michael Psilakis and Donataella Arpaia, Mia Dona had gotten good reviews, so I was eager to check it out. We were seated in the bar area, which had an open, fresh feel. Farther back into the restaurant were t... Read More | | | | | | Thursday, Noon The plan was to walk from our office near Grand Central to Two Little Red Hens on 86th and 2nd Ave. A long walk, but that's what nice days were meant for. I started on 42nd, and went up Madison, battling an internal debate over blueberry pie or chocolate blackout cake. Maybe I shoul... Read More | | | | | | Mia Dona photo: Ryan Charles Owner Donatella Arpaia and chef Michael Psilakis (Dona, Anthos) veer closer to Italy than to Greece with Mia Dona, a new East Side Mediterranean, presenting a menu that sports a whole section of pastas, as well as surprisingly reasonable pr... Read More | | | | | | I've been meaning to write about Mia Dona for weeks now, and now that Frank Bruni has weighed in with a carefully considered review of Mike Psilakis' and Donatella Arpeia's newest restaurant, I feel remiss in not commenting before this. Having eaten Psilakis' food in his Long Island restaurant Ecco... Read More | | | | | | Mia Dona, just before they opened the doors.Photo courtesy Mia Dona Mia Dona, Donatella Arpaia and Michael Psilakis’s new restaurant is open and busy, though still BYOB. We previewed the food in our video, but the menu turns out to be larger and significantly cheaper than expected. The gnudi with tr... Read More | | | | | | Expect standing-room only at Mia Dona, given Donatella Arpaia?s East Side groupies. Read More | | | | | | Mia Dona’s failures are minor, but the accretion of them can feel major. The staff seems perpetually harried; one night, the hostess couldn’t find a waiting party and exclaimed, when the impatient group approached to check on the status of its table, “You aren’t who I thought you were!” On . . . Read More | | | |
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