{"id":209022,"date":"2026-04-25T00:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209022\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T00:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:39:14","slug":"cafe-il-villaggio-closes-after-31-years-in-babylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209022\/","title":{"rendered":"Caf\u00e9 Il Villaggio closes after 31 years in Babylon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Babylon Village\u2019s Caf\u00e9\u00a0Il Villaggio has been a neighborhood staple serving Italian American classics for 31 years. Tonight\u00a0will be the restaurant&#8217;s last dinner service.<\/p>\n<p>Owned by Lucy and Mike Domingo, Villaggio\u2019s was an extended family affair from the beginning. Lucy\u2019s sister, Josephine Mannina,\u00a0\u00a0explained:\u00a0&#8220;We&#8217;re retiring. It\u2019s been 31 years, our family started this business in our twenties.\u00a0We just want to thank the community for all the support they\u2019ve given us, especially during COVID.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whether it was baked clams or fried calamari you were seeking, a Caesar salad, chicken Marsala, veal Parmigiana, filet Oreganata, or shrimp scampi, Villaggio\u2019s had you covered. With more than 30 pastas on the menu\u00a0\u2014 including classics like fettuccine Alfredo and more complex offerings like the pappardelle Siciliane, made with chop meat, peas, pignoli nuts, prosciutto and raisins in a tomato bechamel \u2014\u00a0carb cravings were satisfied on the daily.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re looking forward to the next chapter, sure, but it\u2019s been bittersweet,&#8221;\u00a0said Mannina.<\/p>\n<p>Cafe Il Villaggio, 35 Deer Park Ave., Babylon,\u00a0<a class=\"nd-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cafeilvillaggio.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cafeilvillaggio.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Marie Elena Martinez\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"88\" height=\"104\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777077554_243_image.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tA global freelancer who has checked her suitcase to raise her young daughter on her native Long Island, Marie Elena will always make time for good mezcal, even better tacos\u00a0and killer conversation. Preferably, in a corner bar seat. She can be found on Instagram at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mariesworldeats\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@mariesworldeats<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Babylon Village\u2019s Caf\u00e9\u00a0Il Villaggio has been a neighborhood staple serving Italian American classics for 31 years. Tonight\u00a0will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8695,8696,9,11,10,49,51,50,821],"class_list":["post-209022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-feedme","tag-fmclose","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}