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Insieme

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The Michelangelo
777 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10019
nr. 51st St.  See Map | Subway Directions Hopstop Popup
212-582-1310 Send to Phone

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  • Cuisine: Italian
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Official Website

restaurantinsieme.com

Hours

Mon-Wed, 7am-10am, noon-2pm and 5:30pm-10pm; Thu-Fri, 7am-10am, noon-2pm and 5:30pm-11pm; Sat, 8am-11am and 5:30pm-11:30pm; Sun, 8am-11am

Prices

$26-$32

Payment Methods

American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard, Visa

Special Features

  • Brunch - Weekend
  • Dine at the Bar
  • Hot Spot
  • Notable Chef
  • Notable Wine List
  • Private Dining/Party Space
  • Prix-Fixe
  • Theater District

Alcohol

  • Full Bar

Reservations

Recommended

Profile

Marco Canora, who ran the original kitchen at Craft and subsequently left to open his own restaurant, Hearth, has been one of Tom Colicchio's most ardent and successful proselytizers. At Hearth, Canora managed to put an Italian spin on Colicchio's rigorous Greenmarket doctrine. Now comes Insieme, which opened recently in a boxy little space in the Michelangelo Hotel above Times Square. Insieme is an Italian restaurant, too, but as the slightly tortured name indicates, it's less casual and bohemian than Hearth, and much more studied. The room is decorated in the self-consciously spare Craft style, with dining tables made from bleached French white oak and curtains of billowing silk shading the windows. These curtains have a pleasant cocooning effect, and as you study the menu, with its references to ramp puré e, pheasant eggs, and "pasture-fed baby beef," you don't feel like you're in Times Square anymore. You're back downtown, at some reconstituted, Mediterranean version of Craft 2.0. The restaurant's name ("together" in Italian) refers to the overly complex menu, which is really two documents intertwined in one. A "traditional" Italian menu is printed side-by-side with a more experimental, "contemporary" list. Once you've oriented yourself, it's a good idea to stick to the traditional side of things, especially in the early going. Among the contemporary items, the epicures at my table preferred the lamb carpaccio (sprinkled with righteously organic fava beans) to the bland calamari ripieni (wan ringlets of squid tossed with ramps and bits of orange) and the washugyu beef in brodo spiked with a little too much anise. But none of these compared with the traditional veal tartare (made with the aforementioned pasture-fed baby beef) or the excellent fritto misto alla Lucchese, containing sweetbreads rolled in flour, veal tongue, and a piece of calf's liver so tender it caused my colleague the Steak Loon to pause in rapturous silence and lift his eyes up toward the heavens.

Brunch

Sat.—Sun., 8 a.m.—11a.m.

Ideal Meal

Fritto misto alla Lucchese, lasagne, lesso misto, chicken or lamb, gianduja bar.

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Food: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Décor: 8.5
Value: 7.5

Best restaurant in Midtown

NYCThing from 10185 | Posted on 5/17/07

Overall Rating: 10 (Highly Recommended)
Food: 10
Service: 10
Décor: 10
Value: 9

Easily the best restaurant in Midtown - finally a place that is interesting, sophisticated and well executed arrives in Midtown. Normally you have to go downtown for this kind of experience. The space is very elegant, the menu is interesting, the service casual but intelligent, the food is bursting with flavor and the wines perfectly match the food. What more can you ask for? I have been here twice and thoroughly enjoyed it both times - this will be a regular stop for me. I went with my wife a couple weeks ago and with clients last night - this restaurant is perfect for both types of occasions.

Falso (Italian for sham!)

martin_chamois from West 50's | Posted on 4/30/07

Overall Rating: 6 (Mixed Reviews)
Food: 6
Service: 6
Décor: 7
Value: 6

Granted we went to Insieme during the first 10 days after opening, but having lived in Italy, this is far from being an authentic upscale Italian restaurant. First it does not have an authentic Italian environment. The front desk staff and wait staff would not know an Italian restaurant if they fell over it. After not honoring our seating request, as we sat in a box car like line of two seaters, we were served by a non-Italian knowledgeable waiter. The bread looked and tasted like a dry rotting potato. Then the chef tastes arrived; radishes stuffed with olive oil, which were impossible to eat, and some barely edible broth with pasta. The fish crudo appetizers were mediocre. But it was the pastas that were really bad. The linguine that was not al dente but rather mushy. Even the Ruth Reichl endorsed lasagna was mediocre (Ruth call me and I will tell you about a far better place). We could not bear going any further. To the credit of the management, they deducted the over cooked pasta from the check, but the damage was done. This is not an authentic Italian restaurant. It will not work in Manhattan.

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