Review July 28, 2010

Little Italy seems to get a little littler with each passing year.  more →

Review June 07, 2010

By day, a sandwich shop. By night, a 20-seat restaurant with high ambitions.  more →

Recommended Dishes

At lunch, turkey sandwich, chicken parm sandwich. At dinner, the menu changes daily.

Review June 02, 2010

Torrisi Italian Specialties might be Manhattan’s best Italian-American restaurant.  more →

Recommended Dishes

Awesome egg, potato and provolone sandwich for lunch.

Review April 18, 2010

Although one-half of the Underground Gourmet grew up wallowing in the weekly feast known to Italian-Americans as Sunday supper—that all-you-can-eat orgy and sadomasochistic opportunity for the wooden-spoon-wielding family matriarch to show her love and try to kill you at the same time—nothing could have prepared us for dinner at Torrisi Italian Specialties.  more →

Recommended Dishes

The menu changes daily and the only choice is the entrée (we’re partial to devil’s chicken).

Review

This 18-seat Italian restaurant, located smack in the center of that tourist-crammed theme park known as Little Italy, is not your typical red sauce joint.  more →