Locanda Verde

TriBeCa's Best Restaurants: Tucked into TriBeCa, Locanda Verde has been delighting Italian food lovers since it opened its doors in 2009. A rustic ease is prevalent in the decor and the menu, which features casual basics like sheep's milk ricotta with sea salt and herbs on chunks of wood-fired peasant bread, to lamb meatball sliders, to squid ink linguini with manila clams, soppressata, garlic...

Know Before You Go: The pastas are invariably very filling and the entrees tend to run big. Consider sharing one of the latter with one (or even two) of your dining companions.

What to Drink: This food goes well with big Italian reds, and the wine list has plenty of them. If you're feeling flush, maybe consider an Amarone.

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When Andrew Carmellini left A Voce---the restaurant he helped found---a legion of faithful eaters put their forks down and sighed. But after a year hiatus, he fired up the burners again at this Italian eatery in Robert DeNiro’s The Greenwich Hotel. Formerly the space that housed the failed Ago, Locanda Verde’s interior hasn’t changed much. The menu, however, is Carmellini all the way. The...

Italian comfort food in a casual but very sophisticated Tribeca setting.