Clear Michelin-worthy winners: whipped ricotta crostini, slow roasted tomatoes, spinach & mascarponetortelli, and olive oil gelato. You may have to wait up 30 min even with a reservation.
We tried 4 pastas and 2 antipasti on opening night. The roasted tomato starter and bucatini are unmissable. Runner beans were great too! The rest (pesto, papardelle, and ragú) we were divided on.
The whipped ricotta crostini and roasted tomatoes to start were amazing. Spinachtortellini and the corzetti were spectacular. Staff is super attentive. Great vibe. Easily a new regular spot for us!
Great staff & atmosphere. Both antipasti dishes and both pasta dishes we tried were excellent (roasted tomatoes & whipped ricotta crostini and spinach ravioli & corzetti). Will be back for more!
excellent service although there was a noticeable gap bt 1st pasta &2nd but otherwise great. Whipped ricotta app, fettucine and linguine/anchovy were tasty! Tortellini was sooo buttery but so good
All the vegetables have the same acidic flavors aside from the artichokes. Our 32oz steak was overcooked but the tortellini was good. The Fava beans were as basic as the dinner crowd. Gelato was nice.
The tomatoantipasti is the perfect mix of sweet and spicy. The spinach and mascarponetortellini is also an absolute can't miss, as is the sheep's milkocchi! Skip the fettuccini and the rigatoni
Love it! Even more than Lilia. Little gem salad was great.. fettuccine, rigatoni & occhi.. all were great and of course the ricottaappetizer. And you don’t wanna miss the gelato
Get the mushrooms, eggplant, and artichokes. Artichokes stole the show but the rest were excellent. Anchovylinguine and tortellini very good. Only negative was our waitress who had an attitude :/
Another incredible Italian resto from Missy Robbins and co. - just come with a good sized group and try as much as possible! Loved the Crostini and 30 cloverigatoni.
Vegetable antipasta and pasta from the Lilia crew. Dug the tomatoes, artichokes and zucchini. Wife liked the chickpeapappardelle but I was average. Yes to the spinach/ricotta tortellini
Manhattan vibe in BK, but the food was notable & preferred over sister jaunt Lillia. Little gem salad, grilled artichokes, & the peas for apps. Broccoli rabepasta was delicate but delectable.
NYT Top New Restaurants *** (11/2018): "Marinated leeks; roasted eggplant; chanterelles sott’olio; ricotta-filled occhi; strangozzi with pork sugo; linguine with anchovy; all gelati."
My friends and I shared a bunch of pastas and some were better than others - I tend to like my pastaal dente and thought that overall the pastas were slllllightly overdone.
The ricottabread could use some flavor. The eggplant was weird- too many flavors. The butter linguine was not as good as you would think buttery pasta should be. Overall not impressed.