"A Bishop Arts anchor since 2010, Lucia is one of the city’s best Italian restaurants, focused on house-cured meats and handmade pastas. Casual yet just romantic enough, you’ll see diners sharing peppery finocchiona at the bar and couples having hushed conversations over oysters dressed with chile and basil. The menu changes often, but you can expect pastas like rigatoni with beef shank ragu and flat ribbons of taglierini spiced up with n’duja. Eat your fill knowing there’s plenty of amaro to sip after dinner—that nice warm feeling feels just right in the cozy dining room with rustic wooden tables and framed antique botanical prints on the walls." - Kevin Gray
Nancy Farrar