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Few restaurants have amassed a dedicated following quite like Carbone, the Italian-American hotspot that’s earned raves from celebrities and foodies alike. Operated by Major Food Group, the namesake restaurant of Chef Mario Carbone started in New York’s Greenwich Village and has since expanded to locations in Las Vegas, Miami, Dallas and worldwide. The secret to Carbone’s success: good food, good service, good ambience… and perhaps a signature dish that’s gone viral too.
That signature dish would be Carbone’s Spicy Rigatoni, and now, fans of the restaurant can get their hands on an official Carbone gift set to make the pasta at home.
BUY: Carbone Spicy Vodka Pasta Gift Set
Available now for $160 on Amazon.com, the exclusive six-piece set includes two jars of Carbone’s Spicy Vodka Pasta Sauce, slow-cooked with Italian tomatoes, Calabrian chilis, garlic, onions and a blend of spices. You also get two boxes of DeCecco Rigatoni Dry Pasta, a Pyrex glass measuring cup and a hand-painted, Italian-style platter in red or blue. The set also includes an official recipe card for the Carbone Spicy Rigatoni. Everything is presented in a gift box.
The Carbone pasta set makes a great gift idea for aspiring chefs, foodies and the celeb-obsessed (everyone from Drake to Jennifer Lopez to Rihanna has been known to frequent the Italian joint). Owners Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi and Jeff Zalaznick say they created the restaurant to pay homage to the “essence of the great Italian-American restaurants of the mid-20th century in New York, where delicious, exceptionally well-prepared food was served in settings that were simultaneously elegant, comfortable and unpretentious.”
$23.89 Buy: CARBONE SPICY VODKA SAUCE
Get the Carbone Spicy Rigatoni set online for $160 here. Prefer just the sauce? Amazon also sells a two-pack of the Carbone Spicy Vodka sauce for about $20 here. The sauce isn’t just great for pasta either — the chefs at Carbone say the vodka sauce also goes great with chicken or eggplant parm, as a base for pizzas, soups, braises and more.
