| |  | 'Cesca | | | “Tom Valenti's congenial answer to the sudden spate of rootsy Italian restaurants.” —nymag | | Cuisine: Italian |
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| | | | | | 'Cesca 164 W. 75th St. (Amsterdam Ave.) The Upper West Side, long an area I've avoided for no other reason than because I had no business being there, has seen some action from me lately. I've been lucky enough, after 32 years of living, to have recently found my birth mother (thank you Google!) ... Read More | | | | | | Mounted by Ouest owner Tom Valenti, 'Cesca is a maze of plush banquettes and stony culs-de-sacs that feels like a hotel lobby. Other publications have suggested the food is creative southern Italiana total lie. The splendid northern favorite vitello tonnato (thin sliced veal with tuna sauce) goes e... Read More | | | | | | Tonight was a pre-holiday treat with my parents. True to form, the first part of the evening was same-sex events only. JB & my Dad went to the University club for cocktails and my mom and I went to the Nutcracker. We met up for dinner, of course. My mom had picked the restaurant, Cesca, si... Read More | | | | | | The Modern American Ouest finally belongs to its rightful owner, Tom Valenti, the accomplished chef behind the Upper West Side restaurant's success. An undeniably fickle neighborhood to open any restaurant, never mind a serious one, Tom Valenti seamlessly opened to much success and an impressive ... Read More | | | | | | Plywood, it has been said, is nothing without photos. For this edition of the Plywood Report, then, all is glory—photos galore of places preparing to open around town. Have a digital camera handy yourself? Get in on the fun. 1) Lower East Side: A tipster emails, "I'd like to inform you that ... Read More | | | | | | Here at What’s Fresh the goal is to throw the spotlight onto ingredients that are at peak ripeness right now in the short window that is their local New York metro area existence. Sure, you can get yourself plums during most times of the year from somewhere in the world, or asparagus year-round as t... Read More | | | | | | Cesare Casella, the life of any party.Photo: Patrick McMullanThe Upper West Side — flush with Dovetail's success; the boffo business at Kefi , Cesca , and Ouest ; and with Fatty Crab II on the way — seems to be of all places the hot restaurant neighborhood du jour. And the next chef heading no... Read More | | | | | | Normally I don't even try to go to popular new restaurants on the Upper West Side, considering it an exercise in futility. I could never get a table at 'Cesca when Tom Valenti was cooking, and by the time I got to Aix, it could have been called "eh." It might be the Upper West Sider's unca... Read More | | | | | | Anthony Mazzola was dining at an Italian restaurant in Norwalk, Conn., when Martha Stewart took the adjoining table and ordered a glass of the house white wine. "Could I offer you something better?" the restaurateur ? who upped the Upper West Side dining ante as a partner in 'Cesca ? asked... Read More | | | | | | il Villagio Danna and I worked late on a beautiful but steamy Friday and were starving when we finally connected at the Secaucus Junction. We couldn't wait to get home and eat yet struggled to think of a place that wasn't a diner or fast food joint on the way home via Rt. 3 or Rt. 17. Then a light... Read More | | | |
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