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Sfoglia

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1402 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10128
at 92nd St.  See Map | Subway Directions Hopstop Popup
212-831-1402 Send to Phone

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  • Critics' Rating: ***

    Key to Prices and ratings

    Upscale
    • Almost Perfect
    • Exceptional
    • Generally Excellent
    • Very Good
    • Good
    Cheap Eats
    • Best in Category
    • Excellent
    • Delicious
    • Very Good
    • Noteworthy
    • Very Expensive
    • Expensive
    • Moderate
    • Cheap
  • Reader Rating:

    6.5 out of 10

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    12 Reviews | Write a Review

  • Cuisine: Cafes, Italian
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Official Website

sfogliarestaurant.com

Hours

Sun-Mon, 5:30pm-10:30pm; Tue-Sat, noon-2:30pm and 5:30pm-10:30pm

Nearby Subway Stops

6 at 96th St.

Prices

$24-$32

Payment Methods

American Express, MasterCard, Visa

Special Features

  • Hot Spot
  • Lunch
  • Special Occasion

Alcohol

  • Full Bar

Reservations

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Profile

When dining alone on good food, the meal has your full attention. If it’s bad, it’s really bad; if it’s excellent, the excellence is embellished, and the pleasure is yours alone. The same thing happens when you travel, and for those who spend their evenings chasing the hot restaurants downtown, a visit to Sfoglia may seem a little like a trip to a foreign land. There are only ten tables, and the décor seems almost willfully frumpy. There is a stuffed pheasant over the kitchen door, and a picture of a pig and an Italian noodle chart (sfoglia is a sheet of egg pasta) on the wall. (The proprietors, Ron Suhanosky and Colleen Marnell-Suhanosky, also operate the original Sfoglia, on Nantucket.) Instead of linen napkins, you dine with rolled-up dish towels. Instead of effete flower arrangements, there are bowls of lemons or red peppers on the rickety wooden tables. — Adam Platt

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6.5 "Recommended"
Average Reader Rating
on a Scale of 10		 Write Your Own Review
50% Would you go back?
63% Would you take a date?
8% Would you take kids?
33% Would you go on business?
60% Would you go on a special occasion?
Food: 7.2
Service: 6.2
Décor: 7.8
Value: 5.8

The Big Wet Fish in the Little Pond of Upper East 90s Dining

MaryHelen from 10014 | Posted on 3/19/09

Overall Rating: 3 (Not Recommended)
Food: 2
Service: 2
Décor: 7
Value: 3

Raw lamb sausages. Overcooked signature "Sfoglia" chicken with soggy skin. Add to this, a surly waiter who begrudgingly replaced these entrees after warning us it would take at least another 5 minutes to fix (not a big deal after we'd waited nearly an hour between the entrees and mains). And all this after we had been made to wait 20 minutes for our Wednesday night booking. It might be perceived as one of the few decent places to eat in the area, but with such blase service and sloppy cooking you'd be better off making a trip to Hoboken.

Walk due south one block to Lex Restaurant. . .

ntenzer from 10025 | Posted on 3/13/09

Overall Rating: 4 (Not Recommended)
Food: 6
Service: 5
Décor: 5
Value: 2

Ok, like many on here, I really wanted this place to be fantastic, I live a block away. The food here is the typical rustic italian fare, the zeitgeist of 2007 foodie pallets (writ Peasant, Otto). It's not that it's bad, it's just that it's not special and for the price, you expect it to be so. I really don't begrudge the menu, but the fowl was forgettable, the pasta was a very small first course portion with a quick toss tomato sauce. I regret the $12 I spent on some watermelon, cheese and balsamic vinegar, at the server's urging. More asinine was the waiter's wine suggestion - always be suspect when they recommend the two most expensive bottles on the menu. Bottom line, average food for exorbitant prices. Avoid Sfoglia and head south to Lex Restaurant where the classic italian food is consistently excellent and well executed from one end of the menu to the other and you can walk out not feeling like you have to save on brunch the following morning.

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