Some consider her the first lady of pasta. I am referring of course to Addolorata Marzovilla, better known to pasta lovers citywide as Nonna Dora and whose nimble fingers have earned her another nickname, “the pasta machine.”
I first wrote about Nonna Dora’s Pasta Bar shortly after it opened in Murray Hill in 2022. Nonna was 87 back then. Now, on the cusp of turning 90, she has signed a 10-year lease on a second restaurant on Church Street in Tribeca in the space previously occupied by Tribeca’s Kitchen.
Retirement? Dora tried it once, after her son’s restaurant, I Trulli, where she was in charge of pastas, closed.
“She hated it,” her son told former Times critic Pete Wells. “I had to build her this restaurant so she’d have something to do.”
Nonna Dora’s Pasta Bar, 200 Church Street
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