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"  Making great food has become so easy in New York. You just take a great chef, let him cook what he loves, support him with highly experienced management, then put the focus on the food, not the sizzle. The sizzle certainly didn&amp;#039;t help a restaurant in the Greenwich Hotel opened by Robert De Niro named Ago, which didn&amp;#039;t even get fifteen minutes of fame. So De Niro regrouped, brilliantly hiring chef Andrew Carmellini (formerly of Caf\u00E9 Boulud and A Voce, both Esquire Best New Restaurants in the past) to remake the premises into Locanda Verde \u2014 &amp;quot;green inn.&amp;quot; The result is a place whose nightly buzz is due to people having a wonderful time eating the heartiest Italian food and drinking handpicked Italian wines \u2014 including a lot of good ones for less than fifty dollars a bottle.  Just point to anything on the menu and expect your friends to share it all with you \u2014 lamb-meatball sliders with goat cheese; big, fat gigantoni pasta with Carmellini&amp;#039;s rich Sunday-night rag\u00F9 and sharp provolone; succulent, fatty suckling pig. And on temperate New York nights, Locanda Verde opens its windows and puts tables on the sidewalk, becoming part of one of Manhattan&amp;#039;s last true neighborhoods, TriBeCa. The locals, some with kids in strollers, sit near couples on first dates, and everyone knows they can eat well, drink good wine, and pay the check without needing a bailout. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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