FOX 5 NY: Former Vatican chef opens new restaurant in SoHo
- djcdesigneracct
- Aug 19
- 1 min read
Original Publication Source: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/former-vatican-chef-opens-new-restaurant-soho
Chef Salvo Lo Castro, who worked as a cook at the Vatican for a decade, has opened Casasalvo Restaurant in SoHo—his first restaurant in New York City, according to Secret NYC and The New York Post.
What we know:
The restaurant fuses Mediterranean and Italian flavors, a nod to Chef Lo Castro's Catanian hertiage. He began cooking professionally at the age of 12 in his hometown of Catania, Italy, an ancient port city on Siciliy's east coast.
He later trained at the Giovanni Falcone Institute in Italy before serving both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. Diners can even try some of the meals he served the religious leaders—his mother’s meatballs and his namesake fettuccine Casasalvo are both available at his new eatery.
"Every pope is a normal person," Chef Lo Castro told The Post. "Though while John Paul was very charismatic, for me the best was Benedict. He was an incredible man. His eyes were magnetic, and his voice, to me, was God in the world." Pope Benedict served as pope from 2005 to 2013.
