Via Emilia

47 E. 21st St, NY, NY 10010

Rating: 3 - Feeling Good
Visit #: 1
In brief: Nice pasta in a Euro setting - a little on the pricey side for lunch.

We dutifully tried out a new lunch spot today, called Via Emilia. From the street there's something uninviting about the restaurant, perhaps it's its seeming starkness, but once inside it doesn't feel quite so. I think this place should offer a lunch special to compete in the neighborhood. While the dishes aren't expensive, it's not quite lunch priced. That said the pastas are hand made daily and tasty. Without having found an "it" dish, and with Bocca a few streets down, we're not sure what would make us come here instead.