At Enoteca Maria in Staten Island, restaurateur Joe Scaravella has embraced that sense of nostalgia by bringing in grandmothers from around the globe to cook their cherished, traditional dishes for ...

Steps from the ferry terminal in the New York City borough of Staten Island, in a neighborhood overlooking the lower Manhattan skyline, is Enoteca Maria, a 35-seat restaurant where the chefs are ...

The Italian grandmothers rediscover themselves through cooking at Enoteca Maria. Joe Manganiello as Bruno and Vince Vaughn as Joe Scaravella in Nonnas. (Netflix) ...

ST. GEORGE — Enoteca Maria is looking for a few good nonnas. Since the St. George restaurant opened in 2007, it has capitalized on the behind-the-scenes talents of the Italian housewife. A ...

With the help of his wary but supportive best friend Bruno (Manganiello), Joe uses the money from his mother's inheritance to open up a local Italian restaurant, Enoteca Maria, to honor her memory ...

Enoteca Maria's Joe Scaravella, right, with 'Nonna' Elvira Pantaleo from Palermo, Italy, as she prepares food in the kitchen. ILLUSTRATION: Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal.

S teps from the ferry terminal in the New York City borough of Staten Island, in a neighborhood overlooking the lower Manhattan skyline, is Enoteca Maria, a 35-seat restaurant where the chefs are ...

“Nonnas,” a new film that released on Netflix on May 9, stars Vince Vaughn as Joe Scaravella, a real-life figure who founded an Italian restaurant on Staten Island called Enoteca Maria to ...

Scaravella has dated women he has met through the restaurant over the years, and his current partner is one of Enoteca Maria’s rotating chefs, Yumi Komatsudaira, who makes Japanese cuisine.

Scaravella has dated women he has met through the restaurant over the years, and his current partner is one of Enoteca Maria’s rotating chefs, Yumi Komatsudaira, who makes Japanese cuisine.

S teps from the ferry terminal in the New York City borough of Staten Island, in a neighborhood overlooking the lower Manhattan skyline, is Enoteca Maria, a 35-seat restaurant where the chefs are ...