How to book I Cavallini

i Cavallini, as the restaurant styles its name, is an Italian restaurant at 284 Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the sister restaurant of The Four Horsemen, the Michelin-starred wine bar across the street^1,2. It comes from the same team, which includes LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, and opened on July 16, 2025, with Nick Curtola, chef at The Four Horsemen, leading the kitchen^3,5.

At opening, Time Out described a 70-seat "Italian(ish)" restaurant that sits somewhere between a Florentine trattoria and a downtown wine bar, with reclaimed ceiling beams and vintage glassware³. The Infatuation's photos show a dining room with checkered floors, brick walls and hanging lamps⁴.

The menu centres on handmade pastas and rustic mains, and dishes are listed by their ingredients rather than given names^2,4. Michelin, which recommends it in its New York selection, says Curtola cooks "with restraint and confidence"². Early dishes included a fried eel toast with pine nuts and golden raisins, a nervetti salad of braised beef tendon, and a tiramisu built to order³.

Drinks centre on an all-Italian list of about 100 natural wines, which nods to the late Four Horsemen partner Justin Chearno and is run by wine director Flo Barth, alongside cocktails by JoJo Colonna^3,5. Tables are hard to get: reservations are released two weeks ahead at 8am, all bar and counter seats are kept for walk-ins, and diners queue before the 5pm opening^4,5.