"What It Is: A restaurant off the Morgan stop of the L train where you can eat pasta and a kale salad Perfect For: Date Night, Dinner With Parents Otis is a new-ish restaurant in East Williamsburg, and it’s the kind of place that has brick walls, Edison bulbs, pasta, and kale salad. Although it’s actually a little more interesting than it sounds. The kale salad, for example, is warm with some spiced yogurt on the bottom, and we also really enjoyed a bowl of pasta with miso, pesto, and a good amount of pulled pork. The serving was so large that we couldn’t finish it, but that’s the sort of problem that isn’t really a problem. Like when a cab driver goes too fast or a dentist has so many free toys they let you take two. The Verdict: This is a great spot to know about if you spend time in the area, and it should work for a last-minute dinner date that you forgot to plan." - hannah albertine, bryan kim, katherine lewin, hillary reinsberg, chris stang, matt tervooren
