Italian Restaurants in Manhattan (consolidated)
Oct 20, 2011, 10:28 pm
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Oct 22, 2011, 12:07 am
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Le Zie is great (I lived right across the street from it for a couple of years). But there is a relatively new Italian restaurant, Eolo, just one block up (21st and 7th). The food is just awesome; it blows Le Zie away.
Oct 22, 2011, 12:43 am
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Le Zie is great (I lived right across the street from it for a couple of years). But there is a relatively new Italian restaurant, Eolo, just one block up (21st and 7th). The food is just awesome; it blows Le Zie away.
Will have to check out Eolo.
Italian is difficult to justify a night out -- many times not too difficult to replicate at home.
Oct 22, 2011, 11:04 am
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Oct 22, 2011, 11:34 am
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My 2 cents being italian and living in NY since a few years now..
Best expensive italian restaurants: Babbo (WV) and Sant'Ambroes (WV and UE)
Over-rated restaurants (I'll never go back): Cipriani, Cipriani Downtown, Maialino, Locanda Verde
Best under-rated italian restaurants: Lupa (GV)
Best cheap italian traditional style restaurants (where I can't wait to go back): Quinto Quarto (WV), Bianca (EV)
Best pizza: Numero 28 (WV), Kestè (WV)
Best expensive italian restaurants: Babbo (WV) and Sant'Ambroes (WV and UE)
Over-rated restaurants (I'll never go back): Cipriani, Cipriani Downtown, Maialino, Locanda Verde
Best under-rated italian restaurants: Lupa (GV)
Best cheap italian traditional style restaurants (where I can't wait to go back): Quinto Quarto (WV), Bianca (EV)
Best pizza: Numero 28 (WV), Kestè (WV)
Oct 22, 2011, 1:30 pm
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My 2 cents being italian and living in NY since a few years now..
Best expensive italian restaurants: Babbo (WV) and Sant'Ambroes (WV and UE)
Over-rated restaurants (I'll never go back): Cipriani, Cipriani Downtown, Maialino, Locanda Verde
Best under-rated italian restaurants: Lupa (GV)
Best cheap italian traditional style restaurants (where I can't wait to go back): Quinto Quarto (WV), Bianca (EV)
Best pizza: Numero 28 (WV), Kestè (WV)
Best expensive italian restaurants: Babbo (WV) and Sant'Ambroes (WV and UE)
Over-rated restaurants (I'll never go back): Cipriani, Cipriani Downtown, Maialino, Locanda Verde
Best under-rated italian restaurants: Lupa (GV)
Best cheap italian traditional style restaurants (where I can't wait to go back): Quinto Quarto (WV), Bianca (EV)
Best pizza: Numero 28 (WV), Kestè (WV)
Oct 22, 2011, 5:18 pm
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If in Tribeca or East Village and want unpretentious but good food and simple menu try MAX which is on Duane and I think Ave B.
I was there last night and yummy yummy!
Payment via cash or Amex.
I was there last night and yummy yummy!
Payment via cash or Amex.
Oct 22, 2011, 8:58 pm
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Oct 22, 2011, 11:40 pm
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Oct 26, 2011, 6:48 pm
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Need a recommendation. I'll be in Manhattan only a few hours, mainly down near the WFC, late afternoon.
I'll be heading to JFK that evening for a morning flight.
Looking for good Italian food, in a very casual environment. Does that exist? Not looking to change out of jeans and a tshirt, as I'll be in the middle of a MR.
I'll be heading to JFK that evening for a morning flight.
Looking for good Italian food, in a very casual environment. Does that exist? Not looking to change out of jeans and a tshirt, as I'll be in the middle of a MR.
Oct 26, 2011, 7:00 pm
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Take the 2/3 train to 14th Street and walk up to Le Zie. Sit in the bar on the side.
Walk over to 23rd & 8th when you're done and take the E to JFK.
I'm not a shill; I just really enjoy it there.
Walk over to 23rd & 8th when you're done and take the E to JFK.
I'm not a shill; I just really enjoy it there.
Oct 26, 2011, 7:08 pm
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My recommendation..
Quinto Quarto, on Bedford street, 100ft from the cross between 6th Av and Houston st.. It's 3 min away from the west 4th subway station and 5 min. from Spring Street on the Blue line.
Good, authentic Italian (and I'm Italian) in a relaxed but still cozy an nice place.
Try the "Bombolotti alla Gricia", whenever I go there it's always the pasta I choose..
Quinto Quarto, on Bedford street, 100ft from the cross between 6th Av and Houston st.. It's 3 min away from the west 4th subway station and 5 min. from Spring Street on the Blue line.
Good, authentic Italian (and I'm Italian) in a relaxed but still cozy an nice place.
Try the "Bombolotti alla Gricia", whenever I go there it's always the pasta I choose..
Oct 26, 2011, 7:35 pm
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My recommendation..
Quinto Quarto, on Bedford street, 100ft from the cross between 6th Av and Houston st.. It's 3 min away from the west 4th subway station and 5 min. from Spring Street on the Blue line.
Good, authentic Italian (and I'm Italian) in a relaxed but still cozy an nice place.
Try the "Bombolotti alla Gricia", whenever I go there it's always the pasta I choose..
Quinto Quarto, on Bedford street, 100ft from the cross between 6th Av and Houston st.. It's 3 min away from the west 4th subway station and 5 min. from Spring Street on the Blue line.
Good, authentic Italian (and I'm Italian) in a relaxed but still cozy an nice place.
Try the "Bombolotti alla Gricia", whenever I go there it's always the pasta I choose..
http://www.yelp.com/biz/quinto-quarto-new-york
Oct 26, 2011, 8:16 pm
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That's because it's an Italian place for italians.. I've lived here for too many years to argue with colleagues and friends who think that pasta, as we mean it, is not cooked enough or the sauce has not enough flavor or over salted, etc..
Italian food is not American/Italian food.. ;-)
PS an Italian restaurant like that is made for italians to eat italian food.. Which doesn't include meatballs, salads, etc.. Pasta, eggplant parmigiana, and some meat dishes. That's it. Everything else Isa on the menu only to please foreigners and it won't be as good as a plate of pasta..
Italian food is not American/Italian food.. ;-)
PS an Italian restaurant like that is made for italians to eat italian food.. Which doesn't include meatballs, salads, etc.. Pasta, eggplant parmigiana, and some meat dishes. That's it. Everything else Isa on the menu only to please foreigners and it won't be as good as a plate of pasta..
Oct 26, 2011, 8:58 pm
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That's because it's an Italian place for italians.. I've lived here for too many years to argue with colleagues and friends who think that pasta, as we mean it, is not cooked enough or the sauce has not enough flavor or over salted, etc..
Italian food is not American/Italian food.. ;-)
PS an Italian restaurant like that is made for italians to eat italian food.. Which doesn't include meatballs, salads, etc.. Pasta, eggplant parmigiana, and some meat dishes. That's it. Everything else Isa on the menu only to please foreigners and it won't be as good as a plate of pasta..
Italian food is not American/Italian food.. ;-)
PS an Italian restaurant like that is made for italians to eat italian food.. Which doesn't include meatballs, salads, etc.. Pasta, eggplant parmigiana, and some meat dishes. That's it. Everything else Isa on the menu only to please foreigners and it won't be as good as a plate of pasta..