Stick a fork in this red-sauce row — now nobody gets to be “Patsy’s.”
A Manhattan appeals court gave four stars yesterday to the recipe a judge cooked up to end the long-simmering dispute between two famed Italian eateries that share the same name.
Citing “years of arguments that need to come to an end,” the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that neither Patsy’s Italian Restaurant in Midtown nor Patsy’s Pizzeria in East Harlem could claim the one-word moniker.
In 2008, a jury found that a Long Island offshoot of Patsy’s Pizzeria was trading on the name of Patsy’s Italian Restaurant — a former Frank Sinatra haunt on West 56th Street — and a judge ordered it to post a door sign saying the two weren’t affiliated.
Paul Grandinetti, a lawyer for Patsy’s Pizzeria said yesterday, “The pizzeria is grateful for the court’s decision.”
Patsy’s Italian Restaurant rep Norman Zivin called the other side’s claim of victory “a little overstated.”