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MICHELIN Guide

At a time when fast-casual expansions are dominating the culinary landscape, this osteria – laden with gleaming copper pots and rustic clay urns to reflect the chef’s Sardinian home – is a refreshing find. The menu is built around carefully sourced meats and produce that are deftly prepared and presented….read more

The New Yorker

This almost too perfect evocation of a Mediterranean osteria seems straight from the pages of a romance novel…read more

NY Magazine

Best Artichoke… For her traditional carciofi alla romana, she strips a pair of jumbo artichokes to the succulent core, braises them until fleshily tender, and perches them in a pool of olive oil, white wine, garlic, and fresh mint that’ll have you reaching for the basket of crusty brick-oven bread again and again…read more

NY Times

Convivium Osteria is primarily a neighborhood restaurant, of the kind and level that every neighborhood wants. It does not force you to splurge, but it allows you to. You can eat conventionally or graze. Convivium accommodates different moods, and it changes with the seasons…read more

Zagat

“Superb” Mediterranean cooking and “ambiance to burn” define this Park Slope “date-night” nexus where the mood’s “intimate” and service “shines”; a “quality” wine list, “fantastic” garden and “particularly romantic” cellar are bonuses, and if that’s not enough, it’s an “easy walk to Barclays Center…read more

USA Today

Combining a love of Western Mediterranean cuisines and décor to match, the restaurant has three distinctive dining rooms. One resembles a farmhouse in Sardinia, Italy, another a shop in Barcelona, Spain, and the third, a wine cellar in Oporto, Portugal. The menu features creative dishes like green apple and cinnamon ravioli with duck ragu and pinenut crusted rack of lamb…read more

Edible Brooklyn

Brooklyn eateries that subscribe to a slow-food philosophy on the plate are now too many to count, but Convivium Osteria, Carlo and Michelle Pulixi’s neighborhood gem on the northernmost block of Fifth Avenue, might be the only space that feels like it’s set in a shed in preindustrial Italy….read more