"If you want to dine in a restaurant filled with actual Village residents rather than tourists and other interlopers, check out Gene’s — the window of which is decorated with a Venetian gondola. It was founded in 1919, making it one of the oldest restaurants in the neighborhood, and yes, you should go for the roast clams, baked ziti a la Siciliana, rigatoni matriciana, and, if you can afford it, the massive veal chop, enough for two." - Robert Sietsema