{"id":424556,"date":"2025-12-04T17:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424556\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:29:11","slug":"italian-restaurant-fowl-witch-from-robertas-closes-in-the-east-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424556\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Restaurant Fowl Witch From Roberta\u2019s Closes in the East Village"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foul Witch<\/a>, the East Village restaurant from Roberta\u2019s, served its last dinner on Sunday, November 30, closing after just under three years<\/a> at 15 Avenue A, between Houston and East Second streets. The Italian restaurant and wine bar, from Roberta\u2019s<\/a> co-founders Brandon Hoy and chef Carlo Mirarchi, opened in January 2023 with pasta, meats, and a dynamic natural wine list served in a long, narrow room with an open kitchen and a wood-fired oven.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter much consideration, we made the difficult decision to close the doors of Foul Witch and bring this chapter to a close,\u201d the duo said in a statement. \u201cWe are incredibly appreciative of the support and enthusiasm our guests have shown since our opening, and are grateful for our dedicated team, whose creativity and commitment shaped the spirit of Foul Witch. We deeply value our neighbors and the NYC community for their energy and support since the opening of Foul Witch.\u201d<\/p>\n

The East Village spot was a revival of Roberta\u2019s temporary restaurant at Frieze Art Fair,<\/a> dubbed Foul Witch by Blanca, referring to Roberta\u2019s Bushwick fine-dining restaurant that closed<\/a> in April. Hoy and Mirarchi, known for turning their Bushwick pizzeria into a mini-empire, used Foul Witch to push a more experimental, \u201cspooky Italian\u201d idea: seasonal pastas, charcuterie, and large-format meats instead of pizza. <\/a><\/p>\n

Critics jumped on Foul Witch early. Eater\u2019s Robert Sietsema described<\/a> the opening as a new restaurant built on pasta, pork, and wine; he highlighted the potatoes with paddlefish roe, testa, goat garganelli, and pork neck. It remained \u201cseriously weird<\/a>,\u201d a few months later, serving \u201cmodern Italian with discordant notes that zap you out of comfort.\u201d In June 2023, Pete Wells at the New York Times<\/a> reviewed the restaurant under the headline \u201cFoul Witch Summons the Ghost of Blanca,\u201d noting how Mirarchi had carried some of Blanca\u2019s tasting-menu sensibility<\/a> into a looser a la carte format. The publication later included Foul Witch on its list of the 12 best new restaurants of 2023<\/a> and ranked it 53rd<\/a> on its 2024 list of the 100 best restaurants in the city. <\/a>Foul Witch was also a semifinalist<\/a> for the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant in 2024.<\/p>\n

The team isn\u2019t leaving the address entirely. A spokesperson says they will use the space as a private dining room for Roberta\u2019s, citing demand for group events. At the same time, they\u2019re focused on other projects, including the opening of Ezio\u2019s in Miami<\/a> and a slate of larger music festivals, on- and off-site activations, and collaborations with other restaurateurs and artists across the country, a spokesperson says. The closure comes as Roberta\u2019s moves beyond its indie roots as it grows. In 2024, Roberta\u2019s and R Slice<\/a> opened its first Manhattan location in the Penn District, a large, two-level restaurant and slice shop at 1 Pennsylvania Plaza, between 33rd and 34th streets, near Madison Square Garden and Penn Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foul Witch, the East Village restaurant from Roberta\u2019s, served its last dinner on Sunday, November 30, closing after…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":424557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,16492,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-424556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-restaurant-news","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115662485194143517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}