Nov 28
Peasant
Italian food is often described as Rustic. However Peasant on Elizabeth Street in New York is one restaurant that really gets it right. The bunker-style restaurant downstairs is a place to go into the night where you can find simply baked bass, perfectly oval pizza bianca, roast suckling pig, spit roast hen, or crackly, wood-cooked sardines. The food is served at busy oak tables, in piping hot terra-cotta pots, and with the brick ovens roaring in the background it feels like you are taking part in a communal feast. I went on Tuesday again. It was great.
194 Elizabeth St. (btw. Spring St. and Prince St.)
