BROOKLYN, NY — This too shall pasta.
A Brooklyn restaurant is back up and running after an unusual pre-Christmas heist cleared out its pasta supply.
The thieves noodled their way into Borsalia — which recently opened on Grand Avenue in Williamsburg — sometime between 11 p.m. Dec.23 and when they opened Christmas Eve morning by breaking the lock on a hatch on the sidewalk and drilling a hole into the wall that separated the entrance from the kitchen, restaurant workers said.
Once inside, the thieves cleared out all 15 pounds of the restaurant's pasta, which had been made the day before by the cafe's chefs in anticipation of a Christmas rush of customers.
Staff who showed up to the restaurant the next day said the break-in was so unusual they didn't even realize what had been stolen at first.
"We went downstairs and found this big hole in the wall...but everything in the restaurant was perfect," Manager Cristiano Rossi told Patch, saying that except for the pasta, it appears only about $40 was taken from a tip jar. "When the police came we went into the kitchen and we opened the pasta storage — it was empty."
Police with the 90th Precinct fingerprinted the kitchen and collected camera footage from nearby businesses, but have not had any updates in the case since, Rossi said.
Borsalia had not yet had time to set up its own camera system since it opened only a month ago, he added.
The pasta included ravioli, cappelletti, tagliatelle and gnocchi, Rossi said.
He still doesn't quite know why the thieves went through so much effort for the carbo-load.
"My answer to this is that our pasta is in high demand and is of the highest value," he said.
The heist left Borsalia's chefs working all day and night on Christmas to replace the pasta supply, according to the restaurant. The eatery reopened on Dec. 26.
Update: An earlier version of this story said the robbery happened on Christmas Eve, it actually occurred between 11 p.m. Dec. 23 and the morning of Dec. 24, staff said.
December 29, 2020 at 03:07AM
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