Bar Primi

Restaurants Dining

One of several reasons to like Bar Primi, Andrew Carmellini’s new two-story restaurant on the corner of Second Street and the Bowery, is that there is almost nothing on the menu but appetizers and pasta. You can eat all the things you go to Italian places for without ordering a $35 grilled salmon simply to prove that you know fusilli is not considered a main course in Milan. Within Mr....

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Pete Wells is sorely disappointed by much of the food at the new Tavern on the Green: "Maybe the food, which isn't especially ornate, still needs to come down a notch or...

[Bar Primi by Bess Adler]
NOHO — Starting Tuesday, Bar Primi will be open for lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekdays. The new many includes many of the same pastas offered at dinner, including rigatoni with eggplant and orecchiette with sausage, chickpeas, and broccolie rabe. There's also that roast beef sandwich, a portobello melt, and a grilled fish of the day. Check out the full menu...

Bar Primi is an Italian pasta shop on the border of NoHo and the East Village.