Monday, December 8, 2008
Restaurants Giovanni Open in Midtown
Posted by Carrington Fox on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:43 PM
The New York nameplate Giovanni is in its second week of operation in midtown. Located at 909 20th Ave. S. (phone: 760-5932), in the once-Gaudi-esque building that formerly housed Chu and Lay'la Rul, Giovanni now wears a sleek, Tuscan-tinted façade and serves lunch and dinner seven days a week. Like the flagship Giovanni in NYC, the Nashville outpost abounds with seafood dishes and homemade pasta.
As always, if you get there before we do, please report back on Bites.
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Of the original Giovanni on West 55th Street in NYC, the New York Times says, "Elegant, expensive, predictable."
I wonder what constitutes predictable Italian in Nashville?
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Big Fella's family used to treat us at an old-school Italian place in NYC called La Lanterna. It was old enough to have fallen out of the NYC guidebooks, and I expected soggy noodles and red sauce in banged-up banquettes. It was surprisingly pretty, nice decor, thick carpets, pretty fixtures, rich fabrics, tinkly fountain. And the food? Extraordinary by Nashville standards. Claudia's right -- the standards here are just different, especially for Italian. So for Giovanni's sake, I hope his "predictable" is as good as Lanterna's unfashionable food.
we have nothing in nashville that comes close to what new yorkers would refer to as 'predictable italian' which usually refers to a higher end northern italian food...
i wish for that here - with all my might
what city house does is totally different
btw - happy 1 year anniversary to city house !!!
i went
and yes, predictable italian
molte expensivo...
food was pretty good
god bless ém
i'd go back
but again, pricey
