Lincoln Square keeps moving further upscale with new restaurants opening all around the Old Town School of Folk Music. Most recently, Nicole Parthemore and Dana Hechtman defected from Tomboy to convert a former electrician's office into She She , a Contemporary American restaurant. The storefront dining room is simply done in tones of gray with subtle wall sconces and a tin ceiling. This place is not for the agoraphobic.
Tables are extremely close together, music is loud, and there's a minor bottleneck around the bar.
Bustling it is, relaxing, go elsewhere. The name refers to the stamp of approval given to Italian wine, cheese, and other food products of verifiably high quality. D'Ortenzi holds everything in his establishment up to the same exacting standards. He even brought star Roman chef Gualtiero Carosi along from La Bocca. Pizza crusts are rolled thin with a dowel then topped with different combinations of tomato, mozzarella, artichoke, porcini mushrooms, and even ham and eggs, and cooked in a wood-burning oven.