Restaurant Review: Missy Robbins’s Lowest Key Pasta Paradiso

[ad_1] Despite the dozen or so shapes of pasta available in the to-go case, Misipasta offers only two pastas on the dine-in menu, but two is enough. The spaghetti, subtle and nourishing, is cooked just to the stern side of al dente, then tossed with garlicky butter emulsified with the starchy pasta cooking water, and… Continue reading Restaurant Review: Missy Robbins’s Lowest Key Pasta Paradiso

French Pasta Is French Pastry at Libertine

[ad_1] The other night at Libertine, a new French bistro in the West Village, a server described the Gnocchi Parisienne: unlike their Italian counterparts, they were made without potato—“just flour.” After a pale pillowy puff, coated in a rich Sungold-tomato sauce flecked with spring onions and fennel, seemed to melt on my tongue, I waved… Continue reading French Pasta Is French Pastry at Libertine