"It's a very, very old red sauce Italian restaurant that is also a social club—you need a membership to get in. When you show up, they have one of those doors with a window that they slide open to decide whether or not you can come in, which is very silly. But they also have a no phones rule—absolutely no phones. You cannot take pictures of your food, you cannot take pictures of other people, you cannot record. It is the perfect place to gossip because no one is going to be able to record or take notes. So in that way, it is one of the only places left that you can gossip in full secrecy. The menu hasn't changed since they opened except for specials. They have one raviolo. It's the biggest raviolo you've ever seen, and it's filled with ricotta and topped with brown butter. It's just like, ‘Yeah, that's what you want to eat.’ It was miserable to me that I couldn't take a photo of it. It was painful." - brennan carley
