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"Dating to 1994, Pranzo is the kind of cheap, red-sauced Italian refectory that used to fill the city: pizza and steam-table dishes let you eat well for $10 or less in a comfortable dining room decorated with mirrors and posters. The breaded and fried chicken cutlets, served with spaghetti and a free garlic knot, are formidably good — smothered in cheese with a deeply red, pungent marinara. Stuffed shells and baked ziti are steam-table highlights, Thursdays bring rigatoni with sausage and mushrooms, and a couple of slices of Pranzo supreme pizza will do just as well for lunch or dinner; closed Sunday." - Robert Sietsema