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If you can find this restaurant on little-known Wall Street Court, you might just be stumbling on one of Wall Street's quintessential power lunch destinations. The subterranean restaurant's décor certainly won't distract you from business—the spacious dining room is stark and without character, unless you count a colorful fish tank where the lobsters are kept. Neither will the Italian food, with a heavy emphasis on the North, divert you from making a deal. The Mozzarella Milanese appetizer, mozzarella lightly breaded, sautéed, and then covered in an anchovy-caper wine sauce, is the poor man's version of the similar Roman specialty, Spiedini. The Capellini Frutti di Mare's few strands of pasta are drowned in an unfortunate, tomato juice-like red sauce and topped with a generous amount of overcooked clams, mussels, shrimp, and calamari. There's hardly better news from the Carni section: The Vitello al Lemon has thin slices of veal pounded perfectly into very tender submission. Still, sadly, the meat is overwhelmed by an overdose of lemon wine sauce. Lunch can be hectic, but if you venture in for dinner you might have the entire room to yourself. — Brian Silverman

Vitello al lemon, $17