It is the Barbetta Restaurant in New York: the husband of the owner, Laura Maioglio – a second-generation descendant of the founder – is the German-born scientist Günter Blobel, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1999 and donated the prize money to the city of Dresden to help rebuild the Frauenkirche and the synagogue, which were destroyed during the Second World War.

Barbetta Restaurant, which is 100 years old, is the oldest Italian restaurant abroad and the oldest restaurant in New York still run by the same family.