Camera in the Kitchen: Cucina di Pesce

cucina di pesce; photo -- Youngna Park

cucina di pesce; photo -- Youngna Park

Patrons of Cucina di Pesce range from young to old, faithful to the comforts of contemporary Italian cuisine in a spacious, East Village setting unfettered by attempts to be too hip. There's no fusion and no foam, just a classic, comprehensive menu offering old favorites like shrimp scampi and fettucini primavera, and more contemporary concoctions such as pumpkin ravioli and fusilli sun-dried tomato. Selecting a bottle off the modest wine list (most bottles fall in the $20-40 range) is the perfect way to toast to a meal, especially in the vine-canopied backyard garden on a summer evening after work.

cucina di pesce: photo -- Youngna Park

cucina di pesce; photo -- Youngna Park

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i find this kind of hilarious. I went there a few years ago, had a nice bowl of pasta. Mixed in was a dead cockroach. I complained to the waiter, he took the bowl away without an apology, came back 5 minutes later and said it was a sun-dried tomato, and that I would be getting my entree for free. I asked them to bring the bowl back out, they refused. I haven't been back since.

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I've had great food and times there. It looks like they've spruced it up. Does anyone know if they still only have the one bathroom? I know it sounds awful but part of the fun used to be the social scene while waiting to get into the one unisex restroom.

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more importantly, anyone know what kind of ivy they're trying to make an outdoor ceiling out of?

i went there once and my spinach fettucini tasted like a cardboard box. I had about three bites and never went back!


I ate there in 1990 and my waiter turned out to be a guy i knew from high school in Florida, which was weird.

I remember good food, cheap and 2.50 Heinekens.

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