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Aurelia
A server setting a plated dish on a candlelit table laid with wine glasses

Coastal Italian · Hudson Street

Fire, salt, and the slow hour.

A wood-fired Italian kitchen in Hudson Square, cooking the coast the way it deserves. Pasta rolled by hand each morning; fish and vegetables finished over live oak.

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Address
214 Hudson Street, New York
Hours
Tuesday–Thursday · 5:30 pm – 10:00 pm

The Kitchen

Three ingredients, if we can help it.

Aurelia began with one wood oven and a rule we still argue about: nothing goes on the plate that cannot explain why it is there. The fire does most of the seasoning. Salt and olive oil do the rest.

Pasta is rolled at six in the morning, cut by hand, and cooked the same night — never the next. Fish arrives whole and is broken down here. Vegetables come from within two hundred miles, and when they stop, so does the dish.

“If a plate needs more than three things to be delicious, we have not understood it yet.”
Elena Vitale — Chef & Owner
A cook tilting a pan over an open flame on the line
The oak fire, an hour before the room opens.
Live oak
Every fire, since 2016
6:00 am
Pasta rolled daily
200 mi
Sourcing radius

The Menu

Five things we would
order ourselves.

The menu is short on purpose and rewritten whenever the market gives us a reason.

A board of aged cheeses, grapes, nuts, mostarda and grilled bread

Antipasti

Tavola di Salumi

The board

Aged pecorino and taleggio, house mostarda, walnuts, grapes and bread from the morning bake.

$28

Spaghetti with clams, tomato and chilli in a stoneware bowl with a lemon wedge

Primi

Spaghetti alle Vongole

Clams, chilli, white wine

Manila clams opened to order, Calabrian chilli, a great deal of garlic, and nothing else.

$34

Fresh tagliatelle tossed in a pan with braised pork, mushrooms and greens

Primi

Tagliatelle al Ragù Bianco

Hand-cut tagliatelle, white ragù

Pork shoulder braised in milk and sage for six hours, folded through pasta cut an hour earlier.

$36

A fillet of grilled fish on a black plate with courgette ribbons and lime

Secondi

Pesce alla Brace

The day’s fish, over fire

Whatever came in whole that morning, cooked over live oak with courgette, lemon and new oil.

$46

Caramel poured over a semifreddo with hazelnut wafers against a dark background

Dolci

Semifreddo al Caramello

Caramel semifreddo

Salted caramel poured warm at the table, hazelnut wafer, a pinch of sea salt.

$16

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The dining room before service: wood tables and low light
Nests of fresh egg tagliatelle with vine tomatoes, basil and mozzarella
Round loaves of crusty country bread with ears of wheat on a dark counter

Since 2016

A room built around one long table.

The building was a printing house, then nothing for eleven years. We kept the floor, the brick and the light, and put a twelve-seat table in the middle of the room — the seat everybody now asks for.

There is no tasting menu and no theatre. There is a fire, a small list of Italian wine chosen by growers we have met, and a kitchen that would rather serve four perfect plates than fourteen clever ones.

The room, an hour before service.

The Evening

How a night moves here.

  1. A long bar lit by rows of hanging filament bulbs, bottles ranged behind it

    5:30

    Aperitivo

    The bar opens first. Negroni sbagliato, olives warmed in oil, and the last of the daylight coming down Hudson Street.

  2. A cook finishing a plate under warm copper heat lamps at the pass

    7:30

    The Pass

    The room fills, the oven is at its hottest, and every plate crosses the pass under the lamps before it reaches you.

  3. An amber cocktail strained over a single large ice cube with an orange twist

    10:30

    The Last Pour

    Amaro, an espresso if you insist, and no one hurrying you toward the door. The kitchen eats at eleven.

Reservations

Book a table.

Tables open thirty days ahead. We hold your table for fifteen minutes. For parties of seven or more, or anything that matters more than usual, call us and we will arrange it properly.

Monday
Closed
Tuesday – Thursday
5:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Friday – Saturday
5:30 pm – 11:00 pm
Sunday
5:00 pm – 9:00 pm

214 Hudson Street, New York NY 10013

Or call +1 (212) 555-0147

Visit

Hudson Square, between the printers and the river.

214 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10013
+1 (212) 555-0147
reservations@aurelia-hudson.com
Get directions
Getting here
C · E to Spring Street, two minutes on foot. 1 to Canal, five.
Parking
Garage on Vandam at Varick. Street parking after 7 pm on Hudson.
The room
54 seats, 12 at the long table, 8 at the bar. Fully step-free.
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Before you come

Questions we are asked most.

How far ahead can I book?

Thirty days, to the minute — the book opens at 10:00 am each morning for the same date next month. A handful of bar seats are kept back for walk-ins every night.

Do you take walk-ins?

Yes. Eight seats at the bar and the two window tables are held for walk-ins from 5:30 pm, first come, first served.

Can you cook for dietary requirements?

Tell us when you book. Vegetarian and gluten-free versions of most of the menu are made to order; we make fresh pasta daily, so gluten-free needs a day’s notice.

Is there a dress code?

No. Come as you would to a good friend’s house for dinner.

Can you host a private dinner?

The long table seats twelve and can be taken privately Tuesday to Thursday. Write to us and we will send the menus and the numbers.

Do you have parking?

There is a garage on Vandam at Varick, ninety seconds away, and street parking on Hudson after 7 pm.