How to book Via Carota

Via Carota is an Italian osteria at 51 Grove Street in the West Village, run by chefs Rita Sodi and Jody Williams, whose other restaurants on the same street include Buvette, Bar Pisellino and The Commerce Inn¹. The pair opened it quietly in November 2014, with a menu organised into salumi, cheeses, vegetables, game and fish^3,4.

The restaurant says it draws on the 17th-century villa in the hills near Florence where Sodi once lived, and the room holds heirloom pieces the chefs collected over the years, with a terrace on tree-lined Grove Street for warmer days¹. Visitors describe bare wooden farm tables, sideboards and whitewashed brick, plus a marble table set with cakes and tarts^5,6.

The kitchen works from a simple, seasonal Italian menu and serves all day, opening at 10 or 11 in the morning and running until 11pm with no break between meals¹. Only a limited number of tables can be reserved through Resy; much of the room is kept for walk-ins, and The Infatuation reports waits of one to three hours^1,5,6.

Sodi and Williams shared the 2019 James Beard Award for Best Chefs in New York City¹. The restaurant's press page also lists it at No. 18 on the 2025 North America's 50 Best Restaurants list and on The New York Times' 100 best restaurants lists for 2023, 2024 and 2025². The Michelin Guide includes it among its recommended New York restaurants⁶.