18 years after its opening, the restaurant has become the inspiration for the new movie Nonnas, now streaming on Netflix. Vince Vaughn stars as Scaravella, with Susan Sarandon, Lorraine Bracco ...

The restaurant is now the subject of a new Netflix movie Nonnas, out May 9. Vince Vaughn stars as founder Jody “Joe” Scaravella, 69, who opened the restaurant in 2007 as an homage to the Italian women ...

This ain’t your parent’s cooking. But it might be your grandma’s. “Nonnas,” a new film that released on Netflix on May 9, stars Vince Vaughn as Joe Scaravella, a real-life figure who ...

Jeong Park/Netflix Susan Sarandon as Gia, Talia Shire as Teresa, Vince Vaughn as Joe Scaravella, Brenda Vaccaro as Antonella and Lorraine Bracco as Roberta in Nonnas.

Vaughn portrays Brooklynite Joe Scaravella, who seems more adrift than ever after his mom’s passing. Members of his large Italian family — such as his cousin Tammy, portrayed by comic and ...

The real-life figure of Joe Scaravella really did open a restaurant named Enoteca Maria in Staten Island in 2007, and while Nonnas takes a few creative liberties with the details of the story, the ...

The restaurant is now the subject of a new Netflix movie Nonnas, out May 9. Vince Vaughn stars as founder Jody “Joe” Scaravella, 69, who opened the restaurant in 2007 as an homage to the Italian women ...

Vince Vaughn and the real Joe Scaravella at the “Nonnas” premiere in April 2025 (Kevin Mazur/Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Netflix) And yes, Joe is actually a real person. His name is Joe Scaravella, ...