New restaurant offers another argument to sojourn Tribeca, Pursuitist
Chef Andrew Carmellini has teamed up with actor Robert De Niro to announce Locanda Verde.
When acclaimed chef Andrew Carmellini left-wing A Voce, there was much propose on where he’d next cook and, in his scantiness, where his devotees would measure up up such blest sheep’s-milk ricotta or addictive evade meatballs. The propose has been settled. Carmellini, with ricotta and meatballs in draw, has teamed up with Robert De Niro to announce Locanda Verde, a extensive, rustic-urban Italian taverna in Tribeca’s Greenwich Hotel that is already a neighborhood canteen in behalf of the district prog cognoscenti. (Note: the meatballs, in slider mould, are at this same moment filled with lamb and unmistakeably as edible.) An alumnus of Daniel Boulud’s eponymous restaurant, Carmellini applies the perfection of French standard operating procedure to his stable boyfriend, the regional cuisines of Italy. Wood-fired master prawns, fettuccine with ivory Bolognese, broccoli rabe sausage with baked beans, and lemon acerbic are recommended, but there’s not anecdote unsatisfying article on the menu. His roasted garlic chicken in behalf of two is the dream Sunday dinner.