The Restaurant

History

What began as a small family business has now grown to include three very successful restaurants in the Fairfield county area. The Marchetti - Tarantino family, who hail from Gravina in Puglia in southern Italy , started with their first restaurant, Maria's Trattoria in Norwalk , in 1983. The dynasty continued with the much acclaimed Columbus Park Trattoria in Stamford in 1985, and Osteria Applausi in Old Greenwich and Tarantino Restaurant in Westport in 1994.

From the very beginning the ingredients were simple and fresh and that has remained the secret to their enormous success. At every Marchetti-Tarantino family restaurant you will find homemade-handmade pastas, the choicest cuts of meat and the freshest market fish. In addition all of our customers are lovingly treated as a true part of the family. Your dining experience will be enhanced by our professional wait staff and gifted chefs. With every visit you will be transported to enjoy the gastronomical delights of the family's hometown and to the other beautiful regions of Italy . Please come and join and celebrate fine food and wine and the celebration of the culinary delights of life.

The Restaurant

If you poked your head in the kitchen of Osteria Applausi any day this past summer, you would have seen a very familiar site to the restaurant – Maria Marchetti handmaking fresh pasta.  Actually, this isn’t just a summer-time occurrence at the Old Greenwich restaurant.  Maria personally makes pasta every day of the year (except Sundays) for all of the
Marchetti – Tarantino family restaurants, which also includes Tarantino Restaurant and Bar in Westport and Columbus Park Trattoria in Stamford.  The Marchetti-Tarantino family hails from Gravina in Puglia in southern Italy.  Everything about their restaurant is executed with this background in mind.

Besides the pastas, only the choicest cuts of meat and the freshest market fish are used to prepare dishes that have an authentic taste of the Mediterranean peninsula from the top of the boot to the tip of the toes.  Osteria Applausi has a slightly more urban feel than its siblings, combining aspects of both Columbus Park Trattoria and Tarantino.  One thing is fur sure:  when you walk in, whether you notice the aroma first or the décor, you know you are in for a fantastic, authentic Italian meal.  Standouts on the menu include any of the pastas, the “Salmone all’Aqua Pazza” or the Red Snapper, praised by the Zagat’s Survey as “fabulous”.

The Marchetti-Tarantino family is from southern Italy in the region of Puglia . They recognize their home town of Gravina in Puglia as the main inspiration for Columbus Park Trattoria and their other two restaurants: Osteria Applausi in Old Greenwich, and Osteria Tarantino in Westport . The family always dreamt of bringing the authentic flavors of their land to Fairfield County . "We want people to feel as if they were in our home and in our country tasting the foods that we grew up on."

Osteria Applausi, 199 Sound Beach Avenue
Old Greenwich, Connecticut

Telephone: 203.637.4447