This was the first restaurant by Lidia Bastianich. It is located on Restaurant Row in NYC's Theatre District at 355 West 46th Street and is still quite popular especially for pre-theatre diners.
They have a daily pasta special prix-fixe menu. For $22.95 your choice of Caeser salad or antipasto and all you can eat servings of 3 types of pasta.
"J" and I had the antipasto (grilled vegetables and seafood) and the pastas were: linguini with jumbo lump crab meat and toasted panko crumbs,
farfalle with fresh tomatoes and basil, and Garboon Ravioli with browned butter and fresh corn.
The linguine was my favorite.
We each also had a ginger ale ($3/glass), "J" had a cappucino ($5.50) and we shared an apple streudel with cinnamon ice cream ($7.50). It was a very long slice and I can only imagine how large the entire streudel must be.
For the record: Becco is JOE Bastianich's first restaurant, not Lidia's. Her first was in Queens in the '70s, and her first Manhattan restaurant was Felidia.
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