Sabatino's Restaurant Review:
Star sightings, most especially luminaries from the sports world, are an everyday occurrence at this old-fashioned red-sauce joint in Little Italy. The players---home teams and out-of-towners alike---all end up here at one time or another, leaving a trail of signed photographs in their wake. You'll see them digging into huge bowls of Sabatino's Bookmaker salad dotted with shrimp, salami,...
For more than 50 years, Sabatino's has been known for its exceptional cuisine. Everyone will tell you to get the house salad with the house dressing, which is thick and garlicky. Simple pasta dishes come in very large portions. The menu also has seafood and meat dishes -- brasciola, a roll of beef, prosciutto, cheeses, and marinara, is heavenly. Dining rooms fill three floors of this narrow...
It's 5pm and you need Italian. You want homemade pasta, marinara maybe vodka sauce, caesar salad with a smooth not-too-anchovieish dressing, maybe a nice clams casino, perhaps a rich minestrone. You want simple but not boring, classic but not outdated. Sabatinos IS Little Italy, if you've only got one shot to get the flavor of Little Italy go with Sabatino's it's an offer you can't refuse.
This late-night restaurant still feels like the little Italian place on the corner.:
The Scene
The mirrors that ring the comfortable dining rooms reflect soft lighting across cloth-covered tables. Although Sabatino's is large, the space is divided into several small rooms...