Daniel Bellino Zwicke (also known as Daniel Bellino “Z”) is a New York City-based author, wine director, food historian, and longtime restaurant professional best known for his cookbooks celebrating Italian and Italian-American culinary traditions, as highlighted on his Official Author Website.

• Bar Cichetti. In 1997, he founded Bar Cichetti in Greenwich Village, billed as America’s first Venetian wine bar (bacaro), where he served as chef, wine director, and managing partner. [1, 2]
• Manhattan Dining. He has worked in New York’s hospitality and wine industry for more than two decades, including serving as maître d’ and manager at the classic Greenwich Village restaurant Da Silvano.