Frank Sinatra's Iconic Favorite Foods

One of Sinatra's favorite restaurants was Patsy's Italian Restaurant in New York City, where he would often begin his meals with an order of stuffed artichokes.

The dish is simply hollowed-out artichokes with bread crumbs, herbs, olives, and grated Parmesan baked in the center. Sinatra liked it without any garlic, as it upset his stomach.

Another of Sinatra's favorite places to get a meal was the Golden Steer in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he enjoyed the New York strip steak with pizzaiola sauce.

The dish is also known as Steak Pizzaiola. The pizzaiola sauce is a tomato-based sauce flavored with spices, parsley, wine, and butter and thickened with a flour-and-water roux.

Veal milanese is another one of Sinatra's favorite dishes, which is again a popular item at Patsy's Italian Restaurant. It is a straightforward dish of breaded veal.

The veal is pounded very thin, and the seasoned bread-crumb coating is pan-fried into a crispy shell. Sinatra liked it to be extra crispy and almost paper-thin.

One of Sinatra's absolute favorite recipes was his mother's marinara sauce, a wondrous mix of tomato and spices. He even cooked it on the show "Dinah's Place."

After the show, he even released the sauce commercially. However, he had also allowed the recipe to be printed in a magazine in 1973.

Patsy's fusilli with garlic and anchovies was another dish Sinatra absolutely loved, as long as the cooks eased up on the garlic.

While the recipe calls for six garlic cloves, one can simply sauté the garlic in oil and then remove all the cloves to get the garlic flavor without any stomach upset.