The restaurant recently changed its menu, adding more pastas. This is good. But in the fallout, the freebie dinner salad was lost. Down home Italian without a salad is chintzy. Shrimp are little, approaching bay variety.
Garlic toast is just so-so.
Now that is unexpected. But if Pascale is speaking softly, he's carrying a big sandwich. The simple storefront is small, just a few black and cherry wood tables, an order counter and classy framed prints of the New York Yankees, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle and Lou Gehrig. You'd be wrong. One thing we do expect from a New York-style eatery is large portions, and NY54 delivers.