Fausto — Restaurant in New York

Attractive room, lovely staff, nice wines, but the food was a miss.

Did you ever feel like "they" were trying too hard to make the dish more interesting or nouveau? This food menu is the poster child of that .

Lest start from the beginning... Great room. The decor and finishes are very smart looking. Not smart as in intelligence but in neat, clean, simple but highly designed,... just a very handsome room.

The professional service with a smile is stellar. From hello to goodbye, every person who works there is informed, gracious, and operates with elegance.

Nice drink/wine list. Some interesting and odd choices, but a very simple yet well-rounded menu for a wide range of pallets. They even offered to let us taste a few before choosing and insisted on a fresh glass when the decision was made. And the stemware itself is beautiful, as were the actual dishes.

On to the food... I don't know.... something is off. All of the ingredients seemed fresh. All beautifully prepared and presented...just the tastes.

The cauliflower appetizer was very tasty but a little dry...needed something a little creamy with it, or perhaps warm... but it was considered a cold dish so obviously not warm...but it needed something I did like it very much, which is great because it was the only thing I ate all night.

We were a table of 4 and all tasted each other's dishes... the Arnacini was ok-ish. The sauce was just acid, the ball was basically just cheap, stringy mozzarella in a fried ball with barely any rice, and just not any flavor.

The focaccia was wet un the middle. Nice seasonings on top, and a good dipping oil.

The Bass was probably the best entre.. that's all I can say about that.

The tagliatelle was completely tasteless with wet meat on top and not an ounce of sauce of any kind. Like boiled wet meat taken out of a pot with a slotted spoon, and that's all the sauce you get. No red, not a little oil,...just wet meat on noodles.

The Lumache was ok, but really odd to have it in the main entry category. It's an app at best. I was get that again for lunch maybe..certainly not a dinner. Nothing to do with looking for a big American plate..it's just not dinner. Cold greens on a chick pea pancake basically is not dinner. It was ordered because we thought they were doing something different to it, but no.

Then the worst of the worst, the capellini nero.. what the hell.... rock shrimp..ok, roasted fennel...I'm with ya...then n'duja.. I asked what it was, pork glaze with spices and a little bite at the end. It seemed like such an odd combo I had to try it. Well odd it was. The sauce is way to strong to taste the other ingredients. It's way to spicy to taste the sauce! And what the hell with the wet noodle dishes.. Definitely precooked and overdone.. I actually couldn't eat it.

Just stop the madness. Such a shame...so close to home, but a 1 n done...

I've been reading about this place, seeing it on social media... so when we came to NY for a weekend we HAD to come here. It did not disappoint and far exceeded my expectations, which is kind of hard to do!

We had an 8pm reservation, when we arrived at 7:40, there were several open tables - the hostess informed us that she did in fact have 7:45 reservations coming in, did we mind waiting? So over to the bar. The bartender was awesome. Not that they are hard to make, but she made us an Aperol Spritz and a negroni that were both spot on. No measuring required. I've had more than enough bartenders screw up a Spritz that this made me quite happy!

Around our appointed time (It wasn't much past 8pm) we were shown our table. We were greeted by a extremely friendly and knowledgable waiter. As I knew I wanted pasta and was a bit overwhelmed at the choices, I asked which was his favorite. The rabbit he said. And so our feast began!!!

We started with a couple of appetizers - the sardines which were delicious, the octopus which was cooked perfectly and the pork meatballs with a broccoli rabe pesto. Yea, I didn't really need the meatballs but someone had gotten them at the bar and I HAD to try them. If you go, you HAVE to try them!

As per the recommendation, I went with the rabbit bolognese over pasta verde. Totally blew me away. I hadn't had rabbit ragu that good since I had it in Tuscany at least 7 years ago. My husband had the rock shrimp with the black squid ink pasta. It tasted like the sea. I will be dreaming of those pastas for a long time!

We did split a main - the chicken with roasted onion. Its cooked in the wood burning oven so that alone tells you how its going to be!

The wine list here is great - you can also get half bottles, which we did with the cheese course. Orange wine. Its all the rage in NY, not so much here in Florida... Maybe in a few years. I really enjoyed it.

Again, service is fabulous and when I'm back in the city, you can be sure I'll have my reservation...

I've been obsessed with this restaurant for a couple of years just by viewing their menus on Instagram. Also love that it gets visitors like me out of midtown and into Brooklyn. This restaurant has a great Brooklyn feel to it. We were not disappointed. One of the better dining experiences I've had. Many locals enjoying dinner as well. Great drink menu to compliment the main menu. We had the aranchini and the cauliflower for appetizers. The anchovy caper vinaigrette on the cauliflower really made this appetizer. I had the lamb ragu, my wife had the steelhead trout and my daughter had the whole wheat chitarra. All three were perfectly prepared. We were surprised with a slice of olive cake to celebrate our daughter's birthday. The real surprise for me is when I told the sommelier I was interested in trying an Amaro that's not the standard Amaro I always see. The sommelier brought out three Amaros, one I'd never seen, and one from the 80's. It was the perfect way to end an evening and was my favorite place to eat while in NY. Thanks Fausto for a...