What I Sodi does

I Sodi is a single-location Tuscan restaurant located at 314 Bleecker Street in New York City's West Village, founded in 2008 by chef Rita Sodi. It operates as one of five restaurant concepts under the Officina 1397 parent group, alongside sister venues including Via Carota, Bar Pisellino, and The Commerce Inn. The restaurant focuses on traditional Tuscan cuisine and has earned a 2019 James Beard Award, which underpins its premium positioning in the New York dining market.

The business operates a direct-to-consumer full-service restaurant model, serving individual diners through reservations and walk-in traffic with no enterprise or B2B customer base. Revenue is generated primarily through on-premise food and beverage sales at a single physical location, with limited brand extensions into adjacent product lines (Via Carota Craft Cocktails, a 2023 cookbook) that leverage the founder's culinary brand rather than drive core restaurant revenue. The company is privately held and founder-controlled, with no disclosed institutional funding, and reports an employee count of 8, which likely reflects corporate or administrative staff rather than total front- and back-of-house headcount.

I Sodi's competitive position rests on intangible brand assets accumulated over 15-plus years, founder talent (Rita Sodi and partner Jody Williams), and James Beard-recognized culinary execution rather than on technology, scale economics, or proprietary data assets. Operations are conventional for the fine-dining segment, with no disclosed AI, automation, or technology platform components.

Name

I Sodi

Legal name

I Sodi

Website

https://isodinyc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

I Sodi is a single-location Tuscan restaurant in NYC's West Village, founded in 2008 by chef Rita Sodi, serving individual diners traditional Tuscan cuisine as part of the Officina 1397 restaurant group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Dine-in Restaurant Service: Revenue generated from in-restaurant dining, including dining room, bar seating, and garden seating. Open for dinner every night and Saturday/Sunday lunch service.
2. Delivery and Pick-up: Revenue from pick-up and delivery orders, available from 3:00pm - 10:00pm.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

I Sodi is a traditional Tuscan ristorante established in 2008 by Chef Rita Sodi in Manhattan's West Village, serving dinner nightly and weekend lunch in its dining room, bar, and flagstone garden. The cuisine draws from Sodi's family farm north of Florence, with olive oil pressed locally in Barberino de Mugello and shipped to New York. The restaurant also offers pick-up and delivery through order.online and sells gift cards via Toast.

Product overview

I Sodi is a single-location Tuscan restaurant in New York's West Village, founded in 2008 by Chef Rita Sodi and her partner Jody Williams. The restaurant operates as part of Officina 1397, a family of Italian and French restaurants in the West Village that includes I Sodi, Via Carota, Buvette, Bar Pisellino, and The Commerce Inn. The group also produces Via Carota Craft Cocktails, a line of ready-to-serve cocktails. I Sodi's core offering is traditional Tuscan dining with indoor, bar, and garden seating, while the broader portfolio represents complementary dining experiences from casual bars to fine-dining Italian restaurants.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• I Sodi Tuscan Restaurant
• I Sodi Gift Cards Digital gift cards that can be redeemed at the I Sodi restaurant, sold through the Toast platform and linked from the I Sodi website's Gift Cards navigation entry.
• I Sodi Pick-up and Delivery Pick-up and delivery ordering service for I Sodi's Tuscan menu, available from 3:00pm to 10:00pm through the order.online third-party platform.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

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AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Via CarotaminorOthersVia Carota is a sister restaurant operated by the same chef couple (Rita Sodi and Jody Williams). Deemed 'New York's most perfect restaurant' by The New Yorker. Both Rita Sodi and Jody Williams earned the James Beard Award for Best Chefs, NYC for Via Carota. The restaurants are located steps away from each other in the West Village.
• BuvetteminorOthersBuvette is a restaurant in the Officina 1397 family of restaurants operated by Rita Sodi and Jody Williams, located in the West Village steps from I Sodi.
• Bar PisellinominorOthersBar Pisellino is a timeless Italian bar dedicated to the art of drinking, part of the Officina 1397 family operated by Rita Sodi and Jody Williams. Located in the West Village.
• The Commerce InnminorOthersThe Commerce Inn is an American tavern celebrating old New York, part of the Officina 1397 family operated by Rita Sodi and Jody Williams. Located in the West Village.
• Via Carota Craft CocktailsminorOthersAward-winning, ready-to-serve cocktails inspired by the Via Carota restaurant, launched by Rita Sodi and Jody Williams as a product extension of their restaurant brand.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Sant Ambroeus: Upscale Northern Italian restaurant and café group with multiple Manhattan locations. Comparable in refined Italian cuisine, upscale neighborhood setting, and a multi-format (dining + café) operating model.
• Via Carota: Sister Italian restaurant in the same West Village cluster, co-founded by Rita Sodi and Jody Williams. Deemed 'New York's most perfect restaurant' by The New Yorker and the source of the brand's packaged cocktail line, making it the closest operational and conceptual mirror to I Sodi.
• Lilia: Chef Missy Robbins' Italian restaurant in Williamsburg focused on handmade pasta and regional Italian tradition. Comparable in chef-driven authenticity, premium positioning, and reservation-driven demand.
• Il Buco: Long-standing Italian restaurant in NoHo known for rustic, ingredient-driven Italian cooking and an extensive wine and olive oil program. Comparable in traditional Italian positioning, longevity, and curating provenance-driven ingredients.
• Bar Pisellino: Sister Italian bar concept under Officina 1397 by Sodi and Williams. Comparable as a complementary beverage-led concept within the same ownership group, showing the brand's format-extensibility.
• Carbone: High-end Italian-American restaurant in Greenwich Village known for traditional preparations and celebrity-chef cachet. Comparable in price point, Manhattan fine-dining positioning, and emphasis on nostalgic, regionally-rooted Italian cuisine.
• Misi: Missy Robbins' companion pasta-focused Italian concept in Brooklyn. Comparable artisanal Italian model with similar sustainability, ingredient-integrity, and chef-led differentiation.
• Buvette: Sister concept under Officina 1397 by Sodi and Williams, French-influenced and located steps from I Sodi. Directly comparable as part of the same ownership group's restaurant portfolio strategy.
• Via Carota Craft Cocktails: Packaged ready-to-serve cocktail line born from the sister restaurant brand. Comparable as a restaurant-to-CPG extension that demonstrates the Officina 1397 brand's commercial potential beyond dine-in.

Regional players

• Osteria Mozza: Nancy Silverton's acclaimed Italian restaurant in Los Angeles with a mozzarella bar and rustic Italian menu. Comparable in chef-pedigree, regional Italian focus, and high-end casual positioning, though primarily serving the LA market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/i-sodi

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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