Salvatore (Sal) Scognamillo is a co-owner and third generation executive chef of the world-renowned Patsy’s Italian Restaurant located at 236 West 56th Street in New York City. Trained by his father, Joe, and his grandfather, Pasquale “Patsy,” before him, Sal Scognamillo has maintained the same level of comfort and quality that made Patsy’s famous 65 years ago.

Sal knows the restaurant inside and out. He began his career working in the kitchen on school holidays, acting as busboy, waiter and garde manger, and learned to cook under the hands-on tutelage of his father, Joe. In 1985, upon his father’s retirement from the kitchen, Sal assumed the position of executive chef.

Since taking over the kitchen at Patsy’s, Sal has continued to prepare the original Neapolitan recipes that his grandfather cooked before him. Over the past twenty five years, he has overseen the expansion of Patsy’s empire to include award-winning jar sauces, prepared foods, oils and vinegars and the best-selling “Patsy’s Cookbook: Classic Italian Recipes from a New York City Landmark Restaurant.” In June 2008, Sal opened another Patsy’s location at the Atlantic City Hilton Casino. Sal has appeared on hundreds of local, national, and international media outlets including NBC’s “The Today Show”, “Martha Stewart,” Fox News, The Style Network, CNN, CW-11, “The Tony Danza Show,” Food Network, PBS, Fox-5, and “Good Day New York,” to name a few.

In twenty-five years as executive chef, Sal has had the opportunity to prepare meals for many of Patsy’s most well-known customers including Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Danza, Jennifer Lopez, George Clooney, Liza Minnelli and many more.

Patsy’s was, and remains, a family restaurant. Sal co-owns the restaurant with his father Joe, and cousin Frank DiCola.