Tre

Restaurants

When To Go: Enjoy free nibbles when you order a drink at the bar during apperitivo time, 5pm-7pm nightly.

Brunch: Take advantage of the $17 Sunday brunch deal, which includes unlimited champagne, Bellinis or mimosas, and a choice of entrees like potato pancakes, ricotta carbonara with chorizo, add eggs with tomato pepper salsa and smoked mozzarella.

The love-it or hate-it design includes whitewashed brick and exposed Edison bulbs in a narrow space packed with angular wood tables. It might be viewed as either chic or dated. The food, however, is more forward-thinking than the décor. Appetizers like thinly sliced beets with fried goat cheese balls, roasted lamb with tuna foam and potato-crusted sardines stuffed with mozzarella and black ink...

Tre combines the rustic, traditional cuisine of the old world with the contemporary ideals of the slow food movement, with equal importance put on ingredients, community, aesthetics, atmosphere and quality.

Who beats the Italians for style? Top StudioTEKA design hits whitewashed tenement bricks, candlelit nooks, exposed bulbs. Original and refined takes on tweaked Italian. Mozzarella sampler plated purty as sushi. Lemongrass sparks steamed mussels, with tomato broth like a Thai cioppino. WTF sarde alla Piastra mixes sardine with shaved fennel, pine nut-raisin relish, and…a slab of pink grapefruit....

Sing Sing offshoot establishes a crooning bulkhead just below Houston. Space goes for the slick, modern thing, with geometric cylinder lamps illuminating a long bar up front. Main action is in the private spaces, though, with 17 rooms for your private songfest pleasure. Choose from over a dozen languages and thousands and thousands of songs. Korean bites to tide you over. Arrival of booze...

This little Italian restaurant is an intimate spot nestled at the intersection of Stanton and East Houston Streets, and since the prices are so reasonable, it is definitely a place to visit while in the Lower East Side. The kitchen focuses on food from the Southern regions of Italy, with an emphasis on delicacies of Napoli. Their menu features a 'street food' section which includes dishes such...