Pisticci — Restaurant in New York

A true neighborhood gem! Great homemade Italian food! I always walked past this restaurant, especially in the spring/summer time and saw their vibrant outdoor seating.

Last night, I was looking for a new spot for my friend and I to dine. We decided to check out Pisticci and we didn't know it yet but we were in for a treat!

The restaurant is actually spacious. There are three dining spaces. We did not have reservations however, the hostess was able to seat us right away at one of the hightop tables in 2nd room (main room). It was a great table along the left glass wall and out the way of other tables and the business of the waitstaff. It is such a cozy and cute restaurant with a home-y feel.

The food was AMAZING! Variety of dishes on the menu to choose from. Our food came out fairly quickly. Our waiter gave us great recommendations, in which we ordered. The pasta was cooked to perfection. We ordered Spaghetti Al Pomodoro and Meatballs (they also have a vegan ball option), Prosciutto E Spinaci (MUST TRY, ask for extra spinach), Burrata Caprese with cherry tomatoes and pesto which was average (too much olive oil on plate and lacked taste), toasted garlic bread with fresh garlic was good however kind of oily but the regular bread served to table isn't as tasty, 2 scoops of vanilla Gelato with strawberries, and a tiramisu with a scoop of vanilla Gelato. Dessert was good but I've had better Tiramisu. Can't go wrong with Gelato.

We had 4 drinks total. 1 Champagne, 2 Grapefruit Martinis and 1 Pomogrante Margarita. We tried the waiter's drinks suggestions as it is the most popular drinks served at the restaurant. The Grapefruit Martini which wasn't too tart and is balanced out by a sugar rim and simple syrup. The Pomogrante Magarita is more on the sweet side. As we sat there we saw at least one of these drinks being made at all times.

All in all great restaurant, I can't believe I waited this long to try it. Price range for each item was between $7 (garlic bread) and $17 (Prosciutto e Spinaci). Great service, waiter was attentive and friendly, great for one person, groups, or family. Great place to celebrate a bday or celebratory dinner, especially in the room in the back. I'll Def be back. Almost forgot their Minestrone soup is...

I’ve been going to Pisticci for almost 20 years and in the early years sometimes would go once a week. I often take large groups there from work, and generally have a decent experience. Last night (7/20), on a slow mid-summer dinner visit for the first time in a few months, it became clear how far the quality had dropped: the food, the service. The staff offered tables only so near others that it would have been tough to hear, so we opted for the bar, where an off-duty staff sat and talked to the bartender and other staff. The drinks were fine but we had to ask twice for some bread, and then actually had to get up and interrupt the staff’s bar conversation (a couple more joined, and they were pretty loud) to ask for some utensils. I think a restaurant runs well when the staff know and like each other, but is it too much to ask for them to have their eyes on the diners? On the other hand, it was refreshing not to have someone coming by to ask how everything tasted before we had a chance to try it. If they had though, I’d have said the fennel salad was dry and tasted as if it had been sitting uncovered in the fridge for a while, the pappardelle was as good as ever (the ragu is good), but the broccoli rabe ravioli special could be improved by leaving out the sausage and going much lighter on the cheese to make it more like the summery dish it seemed to promise it would be. It did not taste as if someone familiar with Italian food had made it. In contrast to the lackadaisical wait-staff, the runners (the “amigos”) were on top of their game, nimble, friendly, and tireless as ever. Hope to get back sometime for a...

We had a really horrible dinner here for my girlfriend's birthday. I would not eat here for sanitary reasons, although the service didn't help either.

I made a reservation, paid a deposit, and when we arrived, it's like they had forgotten why we were there in the first place. Throughout the evening, we had incredibly slow service, but worse, we had service that was unsanitary and gross.

We found hair in our food TWICE and had a salad that was mistakenly placed at our table (but left for several minutes) than randomly taken away by a waiter who muttered "This isn't for your table". Every time we brought these issues up, nothing was done about them. The man who was seemingly the manager that evening couldn't get anything out besides accusations back at us.

We spent over 1K, and we had to ASK for the two plates that had hair and were sent back uneaten to be comped, which averaged out to $40. The managers and owners have done nothing but point fingers at us, saying my girlfriend, who is a brunette, planted her own "black" hair in the plates to get food for free. Grace, the ops manager, wrote "I'd love to make a note for our staff of who we'll be celebrating!" in one of our emails, but no-one knew or acted like it was my girlfriend's birthday, because surely if there partner or spouse had the same experience they'd be livid. The owner said "they love celebrating life events", but everything that happened that evening (with 13 people witness) says otherwise.

Stay away from here. There are so many other good places to go that have managers and owners that (at the very least) pretend like they appreciate...