Zuppa Restaurant Review:
Zuppa puts an upscale spin on home-style Italian cooking. Located in the middle of a city block, the space boasts a stylish lounge flanked by comfortable window-view booths and accented by a modern granite bar serving top-shelf martinis and pours of Italian wines. Hardwood floors, warm earth tones, unfinished curios and country kitchen knick-knacks decorate the dining area. The seasonal menu is...
"You'll think you're in SoHo" at this "smart-looking", "high-end" Northern Italian housed in the circa-1892 Gazette building on Yonkers' Restaurant Row, where "creative" dishes, "knowledgeable" service, "good people-watching" and a "vibrant bar scene" tell you it's "not your typical red-sauce joint"; some carp about "high noise levels", while others think it's "lost a step over the years", but...
Exposed-brick walls contribute to the SoHo feel of this pioneering Italian restaurant in the city's up-and-coming downtown. The food is lighter and more experimental than standard red-sauce fare. All pastas are made in-house, and include parsnip gnocchi served with braised oxtail, and ricotta cavatelli served with red-wine-soaked bacon. Lamb due volte (two ways) comes with mint-spiked wheat...