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Giuseppe Bruno, owner of Sistina, wants to turn the legendary restaurant into a high-end supper club. Leonardo DiCaprio and Lloyd Blankfein are fans. Gil Fontimayor \/ NY Post Design<\/p>\nWall Street honchos famously spend big bucks to join private clubs in Manhattan \u2013 but they\u2019re not usually shelling out for the food.<\/p>\n
It may be a different story when Giuseppe Bruno opens his first members-only venue on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side. That\u2019s because Bruno is the proprietor of a trio of eateries that have become legendary among the city\u2019s foodies \u2013 Sistina, Caravaggio and San Pietro.<\/p>\n
These beloved Italian restaurants have quietly catered to the Wall Street, political and entertainment elite for years. It\u2019s a family business in all the right ways; Bruno\u2019s brothers Gerardo and Cosimo play a role, mainly at the Midtown eatery San Pietro, while his daughter Nicolina serves as his right hand at Sistina and Caravaggio on the Upper East Side.<\/p>\n
Giuseppe Bruno, owner of Sistina, wants to turn the legendary restaurant into a high-end supper club. Leonardo DiCaprio and Lloyd Blankfein are fans. Gil Fontimayor \/ NY Post Design<\/p>\n
Now, the family is looking to compete against the likes of Manhattan\u2019s top social clubs \u2013 Zero Bond, Casa Cipriano, Soho House, and San Vicente \u2013 by turning Sistina into a high-end supper club. The main restaurant will still be open to the public (thank god!). But in the coming weeks, Bruno plans to create new spaces dedicated to private dining, wine tastings, and private gatherings at Sistina\u2019s multi-room townhouse on East 81st Street.<\/p>\n
\u201cHospitality has always been about creating relationships,\u201d Bruno tells me. \u201cFor more than 40 years, our guests have become part of the Sistina family. This next chapter allows us to deepen those relationships while continuing to welcome new generations of guests.\u201d<\/p>\n
He hasn\u2019t worked out the pricing yet, but take it from me: It won\u2019t be cheap. That said, my guess is that it will be worth it.<\/p>\n
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The wine list is among the best in Manhattan, even if most of its bottles are out of the price range of your humble correspondent.\u00a0 It\u2019s why people who can appreciate (and afford) good food and drink keep coming back, and why Bruno thinks he can take the business to another level by turning Sistina into a supper club for those with discerning tastes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not about closing our doors,\u201d Bruno said. \u201cIt is about opening new ones.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bruno and his brothers came to this country from southern Italy 40 years ago, started as waiters and door men until they pooled their money. They inherited their cooking talents, they tell me, from their mom back in the old country. They opened Sistina in 1983, where they began to grow what has become one of the best cooking and wine experiences in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Giuseppe Bruno and his daughter Nicolina with the Bidens in September 2024. Giuseppe Bruno<\/p>\n
Now, Giuseppe is betting he can compete for the bold-face names in a club setting. While Manhattan\u2019s swankier private clubs are regularly featured in the gossip pages, the Bruno spots remain more low-key though equally impressive in terms of their clientele.<\/p>\n
At any given night, you can see the likes of Wall Street titans like Jamie Dimon, Larry Fink, Lloyd Blankfein, Ken Langone and Dick Grasso chowing down on the Brunos\u2019 upscale Neapolitan cuisine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a fan. So are Joe Rogan and Mike Bloomberg. Brad Pitt had a date night at Sistina last year with his gal pal Ines de Ramon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Full disclosure: I\u2019m a fan of all three places, partial to the rabbit; it\u2019s a staple of the region my family comes from outside of Salerno, and where the Bruno brothers were born. Last year, while mangiare on some, I was seated at Sistina just a few tables away from Joe Biden, accompanied by the former first Lady Jill Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The former president dined on some comfort food of freshly made spaghetti pomodoro \u2013 right after dropping out of the 2024 race for the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wall Street honchos famously spend big bucks to join private clubs in Manhattan \u2013 but they\u2019re not usually…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[288,33605,75,84,83,9,24,63,11323,821,3417],"class_list":["post-271926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-business","tag-clubs","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-on-the-money","tag-restaurants","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271926","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=271926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}