Del Pezzo Restaurant | |
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Restaurant information | |
Street address | 33 West 47th Street [1] |
City | New York |
State | New York |
Postal/ZIP Code | 10036 |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 40°45′27″N 73°58′49″W / 40.75750°N 73.98028°W |
Del Pezzo Restaurant was an eatery located at 211 West
34th Street (and later, on West
40th and West
47th)
[2] in
New York City. It was frequented by singers connected with the
Metropolitan Opera Company in the early 1930s.
[3] It was a favorite restaurant of
Enrico Caruso;
[2]
[4] he and
Giacomo Puccini dined there during the latter's visit to the United States in December 1906. They were joined by Marziale Sisca, the dean of
Italian-American publishers, who owned the newspaper La Follia.
[5] The restaurant was also frequented by
Life magazine staff members
[6] and by artists, such as the group that first met in 1950 to establish
Raphael Soyer's Reality magazine.
[7] It was also the restaurant where
Le Corbusier had lunch during his stay in New York for working the preliminary studies of the
United Nations Headquarters, which were being prepared in a drafting room on the twenty-seventh floor of the RKO building.
[8]