If you look at my Restaurant Index, it’s not hard to realize where my heart lies. 12 Japanese places, 9 Indian, 8 Korean, 6 Chinese. What can I say? I love Asian food. Doesn’t matter what kind. You email me about a new Asian place, I will be there the very next day with a camera (and bib) in hand, ready to check it out. Italian, not so much. There are only two Italian places listed, and one of them (Naples 45) was written about for their late afternoon pizza special.
Don’t get me wrong. I like Italian food. (Who doesn’t like Italian food?) And if you want to talk about the actual food I ate when I visited Rome, Venice & Florence, I would even say I love Italian food. What’s not to love? But when it comes to Italian subs and Chicken parm, I could take it or leave it.
Now, let me clarify a little bit before the commentors go crazy. I like a good chicken parm sub. I’m a fat man. I obviously don’t think there is anything wrong with taking a piece of chicken, covering it in bread crumbs, deep frying it and serving it on a gigantic roll covered in cheese and sauce. It’s good. I’m just saying, if given the choice for lunch, unlike most people, I would rather have any kind of Asian food (or Latin food, or street meat), before Italian.
That being said, the other day a couple of co-workers and I checked out an Italian place on 55th btw. 5+6th that piqued my interested enough to pull me in and get me to order. Tuscany Catering. Why, you ask? Because it’s cheap, it’s sort of hidden, and even once you’re inside (and told you can order food by your co-worker)- you’re still not sure if you’re actually going to walk out with some lunch.
What they’ve got, and a +/- after the jump… Read more »
Posted by Zach Brooks at 8:49 am, July 11th, 2007 under 55th btw. 5+6th, Italian.
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