Corrado will open a 60-seat bakery-café-foccaceria on Amsterdam at 76th in April

        Corrado founder Shaul Natan waited out the recession before signing a lease to open a new bakery-café-foccaceria on the corner of Amsterdam and 76th Street. “It was $225 a square foot when I first looked at the space,” Natan says, “And I got it for $150.” He and his partners will put sixty seats and a wood-burning oven into the 1200 square feet. An outdoor café can handle another thirty.  Cesare Casella has been searching a similar rent break to do Salumeria Rosi on the East Side.  And the owners of Cascabel Tacqueria on Second Avenue have been scouring the upper west side too.   Meanwhile the old Monsoon space and Ruby Foo’s big duplex sit empty. 

         Natan plans to add flat breads of the world to the usual Corrado sweet and savory mix and open in April. Should he call it Corrado? “We’ve been trying different names but it’s not decided yet."
 
         With brand new Gina La Fornarina on the corner of Amsterdam and 73rd and an empanaderia inbetween, plus Salumeria Rosi and Jacques Torres, Amsterdam gets glossier every day.  Of course, we still have our little porno shop.

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