Gustiamo

One of the very few places that has Casereccie Corte by Faella, and other Faella products. This pasta is by Pastificio Faella — Gragnano, considered by some to be the best dry pasta in the world. In my opinion, the texture and flavor of Faella is one of the best, and this particular shape holds the sauce very well.
In 2012, the designated Italian authorities completed all investigations and granted Gragnano pasta producers IGP status. Faella is one of those producers.
Faella does have other varieties of pasta, such as the Calamari, which is so named because it is shaped like cut calamari.
About $ 8 for 1.1 lb./ 500gram package. I know, it’s more than the standard pasta.
Gustiamo ships anywhere, but check the prices.

I came with a backpack and spent $$$, at Gustiamo to try what I thought could be the best products from Italy around new york city for the experienced amateur chief looking for professional level products. I was looking for canned tomatoes I could use in a sauce I have made for 20 years. This is an interesting place, more like a warehouse then a shop a lot of very expensive and beautiful jared and canned products fill a large and well light room with very hight ceilings. In the front there is the Pasta and different Italian salts, extra .
The staff or directors of the place took me around and introduced me to everything they had very satisfactorily. But After spending $ 200.00 there I found my self with a backpack probably over 37, pounds. with a lot of canned tomato and other things like a beautifully jared tomato paste, honey, pasta, jam .
NO ONE would give me a lift to the train. I had to walk up a long and very steep hill about five or more blocks to get to the subway. I told them I would need a lift before I got there and I took a long trip to get there in the first place. I live in Queens. In fairness I know they were busy and had a man on the computer finishing some late orders or something but it is inexcusable. because a car would have taken 5 minutes to the train and back. There was a car and a few people there .
Now for the products,
most the the Canned Tomatoes I bought were Pomodori Pelati. They are very good but not exceptional. I am not comparing them with ordinary brands in a supper market like Red Pack that years ago used to be also very good. These are better and so were the other Tomatoes they had. BUT so expensive and not as good as «La Bella San Marzano» or no better then other high end imported you can find at high end supper market. These people pride themselves on very hard to find very rare products. The other things were very nice and I would go there to see the place and try some unusual things but I can not recommend the tomato past, it was heavy and flat tasting with stale flavors .
The best thing from my acquisitions was Faela pasta .
Thank you for reading my review
AB

Importer of Italian delicacies, this is the only place in the US I know which has Sant Eustachio coffee (among the best in Rome).