red-sauce

Take Toscano's, a red-sauce Italian place on the Upper East Side that's almost the textbook definition of a neighborhood restaurant.

Tony Sachs: Craft Cocktails: Coming To A Restaurant Near You Tony Sachs 2011

Take Toscano's, a red-sauce Italian place on the Upper East Side that's almost the textbook definition of a neighborhood restaurant.

Tony Sachs: Craft Cocktails: Coming To A Restaurant Near You Tony Sachs 2011

Carbo loading is what you do at Torrisi, an homage to old-school red-sauce spots but with a decidedly reinvented menu.

Tanya Steel: The Best Fashion Week Food Spots Tanya Steel 2012

Take Toscano's, a red-sauce Italian place on the Upper East Side that's almost the textbook definition of a neighborhood restaurant.

Tony Sachs: Craft Cocktails: Coming To A Restaurant Near You Tony Sachs 2011

We picked 16 brands of basic tomato sauce, from the common commercial to specialty selections, and subjected them to the palates of red-sauce aficionados Michael Chernow and Daniel Holzman, chefs and proprietors of New York's casual Italian restaurant the Meatball Shop.

Saucy Bunch 2011

Everything about Mike Isabella screams Italian: his upbringing (a native of New Jersey, where the Italian-American restaurants are more abundant than garlic in red gravy), his early cooking influences (his maternal grandmother, whose red-sauce intensive labors still resonate with him) and even his debut restaurant (named Graffiato, a Gallery Place/Chinatown operation that will serve, among many other plates, homemade pastas and wood-fired pizzas).

Brick by Brick: Mike Isabella on Graffiato's menu Tim Carman 2011

Carbo loading is what you do at Torrisi, an homage to old-school red-sauce spots but with a decidedly reinvented menu.

Tanya Steel: The Best Fashion Week Food Spots Tanya Steel 2012

Carbo loading is what you do at Torrisi, an homage to old-school red-sauce spots but with a decidedly reinvented menu.

Tanya Steel: The Best Fashion Week Food Spots Tanya Steel 2012

Every mouthful was deliciousness magnified by the outrageous price, from the featherweight cannelloni with ricotta and lemon to the luscious meatballs three brown spots on a red-sauce canvas!

Around the World in Eight Days Jeff Chu 2012

The white stucco walls are hung with oil paintings that would not look out of place at a red-sauce joint in New Jersey.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011