Little Italy restaurants

Which restaurant in Little Italy is the best value and food?

Little Italy restaurants

None of them, Little Italy is widely regarded as a tourist trap with very few Italians even living there anymore.

Little Italy restaurants

If you want good value in Little Italy, go their for lunch instead of dinner. You can get some good deals during the day, yet at dinner it can get expensive.

Agree with IrishFan. Apart from coffee at Ferrara%26#39;s, Little Italy now consists solely of tourist traps that cater to the tourist trade. New Yorkers wouldn%26#39;t be seen dead there, and the community which lived there has dispersed to the Bronx, Brooklyn and the suburbs.

What is your budget/person and what sort of an atmosphere are you looking for?

Primavera on the Upper East Side is my favorite place for italian food. Cafe Fiorello on the Upper West Side is a hot second and takes first place for pizza.

The short answer to your question is ';none';, for the reasons given above. If you want good Italian food, or if you even want just to see a real Italian neighborhood, you need to go somewhere besides that piece of Chinatown that still masquerades by the name of Little Italy.

A serious question, though, lisaandtom -- and I really and truly do not mean this as any kind of a put down. Why do tourists like you think that so-called ';Little Italy'; is a place to go for good Italian food? Little Italy has not been Italian in decades -- so why does this impression persist? Can you perhaps tell us what *you* thought Little Italy is, and why you thought it was a place worth going to?

GWB,

The answer to your question is tourism guides, I%26#39;m afraid.

Well, it is a big world and only the VERY fortunate get to live in NYC..We ,who live elsewhere, are stuck with media bits and guidebooks..It%26#39;s called Little Italy, we all saw The Godfather, right?

When my husband was small, his family would go to Little Italy to dine.Having ';dined'; there once, we would never do it again.

Eveyone is not lucky enough to have access to NYC, as you all are

I suppose we thought it was worthwhile to go to because of the movies and just the name alone. I am 43 years old and was only in NYC once, for 4 hours while we toured Times Square, saw Ground Zero and went to St. Patrick%26#39;s Cathedral. Not much, I know but that%26#39;s all we had time for. Based on the number of responses received, for which I%26#39;m grateful, we will not be spending any time in Little Italy. That being said, can anyone recommend a locals favorite for good Italian food as we%26#39;re Italian and appreciate a good Italian meal???

What is your budget/person?