A Graduation Dinner at Lucciola NYC Feels Like a Private Party

With only eighteen seats and a tasting menu by Chef Michele Casadei Massari,
dinner here feels less like a reservation.

Most graduation dinners in New York end up in the same place: a large restaurant, a time limit, and what happens if your friend comes late? You know already… Dinner plans are gone, on one of the most important days of your life.

Lucciola on the Upper West Side offers something fundamentally different, and more like a private dinner party — your people, your pace, a chef who creates a menu for the night.

For a celebration that happens once, it matters how you celebrate.

This is intimate Italian dining designed for the handful of people who made the degree possible.

An Italian tasting menu

As a graduation gift, we want this evening to be as considered as everything you worked for. Lucciola NYC is an easy graduation dinner destinations for families celebrating degrees from Columbia, Barnard, Fordham, or CUNY — and just as simple to reach from NYU, and The New School.

Arriving into a hyper-local neighborhood gives a sense of home, where parents coming from midtown hotels or out of town have a warm welcome.

From the No Menu philosophy to Viaggio in Emilia Romagna (Trip to Emilia Romagna region), your dinner celebration is an experience with awarded wines and unique, fresh ingredients.

Be our guest, with your loved ones, your family and your friends.