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859 Ninth Ave.,
New York, NY 10019
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Mon-Tue, noon-11pm; Wed-Thu, noon-midnight; Fri-Sat, noon-1am; Sun, noon-midnight
1, A, B, C, D at 59th St.-Columbus Circle
$15-$28
American Express, MasterCard, Visa
Recommended
42nd St. to 66th St., Fifth Ave. to West Side Hwy.
Literally and stylistically, the loud and bustling Puttanesca really gets around. The interior design represents a geographic hodgepodge: Rustic exposed brick, slate floors, and a hanging bust of Buddha. The menu presents a mixed bag of fairly predictable tricks, with eclectic and multi-ingredient pan-Italian dishes, including dried and fresh pastas in a variety of rich sauces, and roasted, braised, and sautéed meat and fish. Passon gives us the greatest hits of the traditional Italian-American trattoria as well: fried calamari, chicken Parmesan, and spaghetti and meatballs. The fresh homemade pastas are the main attraction; eight of the largest tortellini you'll ever see, stuffed with wonderfully pungent, almost gamey ground veal, lounge in a thick, garnet-colored Barolo sauce. And the addition of proscuitto gives the Paglia e Fieno—green and white fettucini with peas and mushrooms in a rich cream sauce—an agreeably smoky edge. Named after the pasta sauce that's derived from the Italian word for whore, the restaurant aims to seduce. For most, it does the trick.
Recommended DishesPaglia e Fieno, $15; tortellini di vitello, $15
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