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Salvatore DiBenedetto

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@thegrubfather
🎥 Welcome to My Food & Travel Show 📍Long Island + New York City 🫶 Follow along and join THE GRUBFAM 🧳 Founder: @wearegrubstudios
  • Travel
  • Food & beverage
  • Food & Drink
  • Cuisine
  • Travel Influencers
  • Following 4K
  • Followers 495.8K
  • Engagement 3.27%
  • Avg comments 137

About Salvatore DiBenedetto

Salvatore DiBenedetto (@thegrubfather) is a Digital creator creator on Instagram, also filed under Travel and Food & beverage. The account has 495,769 followers and 3,572 published posts. Recent posts average 16,995 likes and 137 comments, an engagement rate of 3.27%.

An audience of 495.8K puts Salvatore DiBenedetto in the mid-tier, between 100,000 and 1 million followers. Set against 4,042 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 123 followers per account Salvatore DiBenedetto follows. Salvatore DiBenedetto carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Salvatore DiBenedetto under 6 categories, led by Digital creator and followed by Travel, Food & beverage, Food & Drink, Cuisine and Travel Influencers.

The Instagram bio for Salvatore DiBenedetto runs to 19 words across 4 lines. The bio mentions @wearegrubstudios. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Salvatore DiBenedetto dates from March 2025.

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3,572 Posts

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❗️EVERYTHING BAGEL BRUNCH CRUNCHWRAPS 🔥 The Crunchwrap kings are back at it again with these all day BRUNCH-WRAPS ✔️ These bangers are getting packed with cheesy eggs, crispy hash brown, sausage or bacon + spicy mayo. It’s essentially everything you love about a breakfast sando… Crunchwrap style 👀 INSANE!

📌 These are new to the menu and available all day, every day.
📍 2 LOCATIONS ON LONG ISLAND: Plainview + South Hempstead
👉 They have an entire menu of gourmet Crunchwraps, btw
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#LongIsland #Brunch #LongIslandNY #LongIslandEats #Foodie
❗️ALL INCLUSIVE FOOD & WELLNESS RESORT 🌴 This all-inclusive Michelin resort, located in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico is what dreams are made of: Incredible, delicious, nourishing food + all kinds of wellness classes that will have you leaving this place feeling like the best version of yourself ♥️ Also, the spa & treatments here were unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. Palmaia is truly one of Mexico’s best kept secrets.

📌 There are six restaurants, all are included. Gorgeous designs and architecture make you feel like you’re in a different world. The food here is wildly delicious and the ingredients have a HIGH focus on integrity & freshness. The mixology is also top tier.

👉 This place is PERFECT for a couples or friends getaway but it’s also a hot spot for solo travelers. Truly a sanctuary of body & mind and you can really tailor the experience to be exactly what you’re looking for.

🎥 Watch the video for the full scoop.
🖊️ This place is bucket list worthy.
📍 Playa Del Carmen, Mexico
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#Traveler #Resort #Mexico #Travel #Vacation
❗️INSANE KOREAN FRIED CHICKEN 🔥 Wow. What a spot! This fast food chain comes straight from South Korea to Long Island (Centereach) + all over NYC and they are absolutely crushing the fried chicken game ✔️ Their chicken wings & drums are hand battered, double fried & what’s incredible about these is that they brush their sauce on to maintain a very signature crunch. If you love fried chicken, this spot is a must smash for its unique spin on such an iconic food. The Korean BBQ sauce is top tier but I also highly recommend the Yangnyeom sauce.

📌 Beyond fried chicken, the menu here is stocked with super tasty Korean food. Definitely worth exploring for a cultural foodie moment. Think Korean tacos, sotteok sotteok, bulgogi fries & those Korean donuts are crazyyyy!

📍 Long Island (Centereach), NYC & Nationwide!

#BonchonPartner #KoreanFlavorGlobalObsession #Foodie #LongIsland #NYC
❗️MUST DO LONG ISLAND WINTER EXPERIENCE: WINE CABINS ✔️ These gorgeous, heated cabins are situated within the vines of this Sayville vineyard and each one comes with a bottle of their wine. You can also order some banging food off a menu created by - the burger, fish & chips + charcuterie board are super proper grub moments👌 Each cabin also has games you can play and a button that you can press for more wine. It’s a pretty damn epic experience for Long Island’s winter season.

📌 Suggest reserving yours early as these things sell out pretty quickly. Cabins fit between 4-8 people depending on which one you choose.

📍 Sayville, Long Island
👉 CERTIFIED HIDDEN GEM

#LongIsland #LongIslandNY #LongIslandLife #Foodie #LongIslandEats
❗️STUFFED GARLIC PARM BREAD CONES 🔥 This diner goes CRAZY on GRUB. Their garlic butter baked cones get packed with just about anything you can think of, from chicken parm to pasta to caesar salad to chopped cheese ✔️ Wild. Each one gets dunked into a garlic butter bath, baked to a golden brown, then stuffed out. Definitely a grub moment you’ll remember. 👀

📌 This is the same spot that does the stuffed chicken cutlet tacos! Another absolute must smash on their menu.

📍 Ronkonkoma, Long Island

#LongIsland #Foodie #LongIslandNY #LongIslandFoodie #Diner
❗️SICILIAN CHRISTMAS CARDOONS 🤌 If you know, YOU KNOW. These Mediterranean thistle plants are an ICON of Christmas eating for Southern Italians & Italian Americans, and that’s for very good reason. While they may look like celery, their taste floats between artichoke and eggplant, and when fried in olive oil… well, it creates a recipe that’s worthy of being passed down hundreds of years ✔️

📌 My Grandma Giuseppina brought this culinary tradition from Sicily when she immigrated to the USA in the 1940s, as she did with the octopus tradition (see yesterdays post) - after she passed away, my Mom took over and crafts them just as my Grandma did.

👉 I have to say what makes this so special is two things: The breading recipe and frying it in EVOO. It’s not easy, given olive oils low burning temperature, but when you do it for decades and master it, as my Mom and Grandma have, the taste is unlike any other fried food. Italian American skill at its finest!

🎄 MERRY CHRISTMAS GRUBFAM! I love you very much. Wishing you and your family love & light during this divine season.

#ItalianAmerican #ItalianFood #LongIsland #Foodie #Recipes
❗️THE CHRISTMAS EVE OCTOPUS 🐙 This culinary ritual is an iconic part of my family’s Feast of the Seven Fishes. It was brought to our American table from Port Empedocles, SICILY by my Grandmother Giuseppina (AKA JOSIE) when she immigrated from the mother island in the 1940s to flee WWII. Today, my Dad continues to carry the torch in the kitchen, honoring this long standing tradition and the zeal of my Grandma to hold tight to her heritage and culture until she passed at the age of 93. So grateful to have had such a strong matriarch who instilled culture and legacy into my family. 🫶

📌 To be honest, the preparation of the octopus was one of my very first times being enchanted by food. Watching my Grandma prepare this mystical creature each year as a child began as horrifying but would transition to fascination, pushing me to see food as something other than just what we eat, but also as something that carries stories and history. A realization that would lead me here today.

✔️ With all of that being said, take this as a lesson to never abandon your family’s traditions. Heritage and culture are the threads that tie us together.

🫶 Merry Christmas Eve, Grubfam! Still got one more Sicilian tradition video to hit you with later today. Stay tuned!

#ChristmasEve #Seafood #LongIsland #ItalianAmerican #Foodie
❗️BEST INDIAN RESTAURANT IN NEW YORK 🇮🇳 Semma is the only Michelin starred Indian restaurant in New York but that’s not what makes it special. Semma is a unique culinary moment as it tells the story of Southern Indian cuisine: Rich in seafood, meat & deep spice. 😋

📌 Led by Chef Vijaya Kumar, who comes from Tamil Nadu, is one a kind. His food is a love letter to his childhood, blending his region’s traditional flavor with high end vessels like lobster, crab, short rib & branzino. It’s a special menu (that’s all a la carte) that keeps me coming back time and time again.

🤙 This is my favorite Indian restaurant for its venture outside of Americanized palates and perception of Indian cuisine. The flavors go deep and they’re done with finesse.

👀 Watch the videos to see my must try dishes, which include the gunpowder dosa, pineapple scallop, beef short rib, banana leaf branzino, lamb chops, lobster & the CRAB FOR TWO 🥵

📍 West Village, Manhattan, New York City

#TheGrubfather #Manhattan #NYC #IndianFood #NewYorkCity
❗️LONG ISLAND FOODIE SECRET: 🔥 This little El Salvadoran food joint on Amityville’s Main Street is packing BIG flavor in the form of pupusas, tacos, sandwiches & much more. 🇸🇻 It’s family run with homemade recipes and a powerhouse kitchen of amazing women who are throwing DOWN. ✔️

📌 The pupusas here are among the best I’ve ever had and they have a whole menu filled with all different types of fillings. The chicharron they make gets ground down and it’s amazing inside, but you can’t go wrong. If you’re not hip on pupusas, they’re a corn flour tortilla, hand crafted, stuffed & grilled. Ugh, I’m obsessed!!

🌮 The taco game here is also banging. They have a pupusa taco, but I gotta say, the PANDA TACOS are insanely good. I got it with chicken. The homemade tortilla and signature pink sauce makes all the difference.

👉 You’ll also find meat plates (loved the carne asada), empanadas, Salvadoran baked goods, quesadillas & banging sandwiches. Homemade is the name of the game here.

🏃‍♂️ RUN, DON’T WALK. Trust me!

📍 Amityville, Long Island, NY

#TheGrubfather #LongIsland #Amityville #Foodie
❗️TRUFFLE HUNTING & TRUFFLE FEAST IN ITALY 🇮🇹 This is a bucket list experience for foodies who find themselves in Rome. You’ll join a father & son truffle hunting duo for a truffle hunt in Italian mountains with their dogs. After that, Matteo will prepare you a seven course truffle FEAST at the family house. It’s truly one of my favorite things I’ve done in 2024. ✔️

👀 Watch the full video for all the details and to see every course. Let me just tell you: That truffle pasta is worth traveling for. This whole experience is truly something special. It’s an honor to be let in on this family’s tradition.

👉 They also sell amazing truffle products. You can book this experience and check out their truffle products at

📍 Rome, Italy

#TheGrubfather #Rome #Italy #Travel #Truffles

Salvatore DiBenedetto's engagement

Salvatore DiBenedetto's engagement rate on Instagram is 3.27%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 31 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 124 to 1, with 16,995 likes and 137 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.

Engagement rate

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Who is Salvatore DiBenedetto?

Salvatore DiBenedetto (@thegrubfather) is a Digital creator creator on Instagram, also filed under Travel and Food & beverage. Salvatore DiBenedetto carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Salvatore DiBenedetto runs to 19 words across 4 lines.

How many followers does Salvatore DiBenedetto have?

Salvatore DiBenedetto has 495,769 followers on Instagram (495.8K). Set against 4,042 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 123 followers per account Salvatore DiBenedetto follows. With 3,572 posts published, Salvatore DiBenedetto's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark.

What is Salvatore DiBenedetto's engagement rate?

Salvatore DiBenedetto's engagement rate on Instagram is 3.27%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 31 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 124 to 1, with 16,995 likes and 137 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.

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Flinque files Salvatore DiBenedetto under 6 categories, led by Digital creator and followed by Travel, Food & beverage, Food & Drink, Cuisine and Travel Influencers. All 10 recent posts Flinque holds for Salvatore DiBenedetto are videos. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Salvatore DiBenedetto repeatedly use the words it’s, foodie, longisland, long and island. Salvatore DiBenedetto's captions carry hashtags such as #longisland, #foodie and #longislandny. Salvatore DiBenedetto writes those captions mainly in English. Salvatore DiBenedetto keeps 3 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.

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