Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca

"It was one of the first restaurants in New York to offer such an inventive and sophisticated take on Italian cuisine—with a voluminous wine list to match."

"It shouldn't take more than one bite of tender barbecue squab to understand why it's so hard to get a reservation at this casually elegant restaurant, whose menu strays widely from..." Full review

"If you can though, it’s worth waiting for Batali’s Hudson Valley version of Italian classics including black spaghetti with rock shrimp." Full review

""Year after year", the Batali-Bastianich team's Village "standard-bearer" for "elevated Italian" cooking "lives up to its rep" with a "daring and fulfilling" menu." Full review

"Leave your gustatory inhibitions at the door and gorge on beef cheek ravioli and warm lamb's tongue, Tuscan doughnuts and saffron panna cotta for dessert, killer Italian wines."