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Please help my cousins choose a restaurant.

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My cousins will be in NYC over Thanksgiving weekend and asked for assistance choosing a place to eat on Friday night, preferably Italian. She has a number of dietary restrictions, primarily meat/poultry, dairy, and sugar. Fish and seafood are ok. They've narrowed their choices to Il Buco, Esca, Fiamma Osteria, I Trulli, and Gennaro. They're also considering Nougatine and Heartbeat. Any thoughts about these?

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My cousins will be in NYC over Thanksgiving weekend and asked for assistance choosing a place to eat on Friday night, preferably Italian. She has a number of dietary restrictions, primarily meat/poultry, dairy, and sugar. Fish and seafood are ok. They've narrowed their choices to Il Buco, Esca, Fiamma Osteria, I Trulli, and Gennaro. They're also considering Nougatine and Heartbeat. Any thoughts about these?

If a restaurant's serving seafood will help your cousin find something she can eat, then go for Esca, an excellent Southern Italian seafood restaurant. Otherwise, I'd try I Trulli, whose food is unusual (Apulian) and reportedly great.

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Yeh i would say Esca also.. I think it would be really hard to get into Gennaro on a friday night also.. Il Buco is a beautifull place, however the seafood doesnt stand out in my memory..

You seem to be all over the board in terms of location. Would somewhere on the UWS be helpfull, because then you might one to try the neptune room.. I havent never been there so I would ask people there impressions.

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Neptune room was lots of fun, had great seafood starters. However, I think that Esca or Fiamma is a cut above. I guess it depends on where you can get a rezzy.

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I guess it depends on where you can get a rezzy.

A Friday night reservation two days in advance in NYC is never going to be easy at a good restaurant. Any discussion about which the diner should choose may be moot.

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Where did you end up alex.

It actually was my cousins, and they wound up at Esca (and did get a Fri night rez!). Her verdict: "...we went to Esca and, frankly, were disappointed. The pasta was great but all else was just okay and waaaay too pricey." She had the whole wheat pasta with sardines and walnuts.

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

A king can stand people's fighting, but he can't last long if people start thinking. -Will Rogers, humorist

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