Prescient Old Timer Flourishes: Antonio of Noodle Pudding
It seems like only yesterday that one of Henry Street’s highly regarded destination restaurants, Noodle Pudding, had a manufacturer as its neighbor.
“Eighteen years ago, they were still making brushes at the brush factory next door,” chef-owner Antonio Migliaccio remembers fondly. “The lady who ran the place, we got along very well. I have a broom at home she gave me.”
Because of the Ace Wire Brush building at 30 Henry, there was a distinctly working-class flavor to the street in the mid-1990s when he picked 38 Henry as the site for his Italian restaurant.
“The collar wasn’t exactly blue, but it wasn’t white,” he said.