Italian restaurants

[sjvalent]

what are the best Italian restaurants in little Italy? In all of manhattan? Interested for planning a trip at the end of the month and want the best of the best. Please list restaurants with multiple price ranges.

[rrems]

The above suggestions are all good, but if you are looking for red-sauce Italian-American I would add Rubirosa. It is on Mulberry St., just a couple of blocks north of Little Italy, and the food is far superior to the Little Italy places. For something more sophisticated, try Ciano (listed above in kathryn's post) on east 22nd st., another relative newcomer that is turning out some very serious food. We were there last night for the second time, and it's really exceptional.

[Riverman500]

Other upscale Italian options:

Alto
Lincoln
Felidia

I haven't been to Il Mulino, Il Matto, Casa Lever, Porsena, and Novita, but these are worth exploring as well.

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Il Mulino
86 W 3rd St, New York, NY 10012

Felidia
243 E 58th St, New York, NY 10022

Novita
102 E 22nd St, New York, NY 10010

Casa Lever
390 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10022

Il Matto
281 Church St, New York, NY 10013

Porsena
21 E 7th St, New York, NY 10003

[kathryn]

I'd stay out of Little Italy personally. There are other places to go if you want red sauce Italian-American.

Italian is very hot in NYC right now. I would start researching:

Marea - especially for seafood
Convivio
Babbo
Del Posto - especially their weekday prix fixe lunch deal
Scarpetta
Locanda Verde
Esca - especially for seafood and their crudo
Osteria Morini
Ai Fiori
Maialino
Ciano

And for less expensive (but not exactly cheap)
Po
Peasant
Lupa
L'Artusi
Crispo
Falai
'ino and 'inoteca

There's probably more I'm forgetting!

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Lupa
170 Thompson Street, New York, NY 10012

Babbo
110 Waverly Pl, New York, NY 10011

Del Posto
85 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10011

Crispo
240 W 14th St, New York, NY 10011

Falai
68 Clinton St, New York, NY 10002

Scarpetta
355 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10014

Convivio
45 Tudor City Place, New York, NY 10017

L'Artusi
228 West 10th Street, New York, NY 10014

Marea
240 Central Park South, New York, NY 10019

Locanda Verde
377 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10013

[Rich D.]

To tack on to Kathryn's post, another cheaper but not exactly cheap Italian place that I've really enjoyed lately is Spina in Alphabet City (way East Village). Delicious housemade pastas.

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Spina
175 Avenue B, New York, NY 10009

[Delucacheesemonger]

Not expensive but my go to for years is Pepolino on W Broadway just below Canal. Owners trained at Cibreo in Florence and their farrato of the day is always wonderful.

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Pepolino
281 W Broadway, New York, NY 10013