"I recently went to this neighborhood-favorite restaurant in Ridgewood with a group of friends and became so instantly obsessed that I still scroll back through my phone to look at pictures. We ordered the black rum, cognac, and falernum cocktail to start, which arrived in an adorable ceramic fish bowl with sharing straws. The sun was setting just as our appetizers landed: wood-fired polenta bread (an impossibly pillowy pocket of dough) topped with Calabrian chili butter, silky rounds of house-made mortadella, and a pool of stracciatella cheese doused in olive oil and sumac. All of the mains were noteworthy, but I crave the lasagna verde bolognese most of all. Made with just two sheets of delicate, bright green dough and a thin layer of perfectly seasoned meat, it’s best consumed at a sidewalk table while local dogs trot by." - ByElazar Sontag
