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| Osso Buco - Uptown | ||
| Address:
1662 3rd Ave. Phone: 212/426-5422 |
Neighborhood:
Carnegie Hill Website: ossobuco2go.com |
Cuisine: Italian |
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Amazingly, Osso Buco
means "crappy family style" in Italian. No joke. It still amazes us
that these "family style" places feel it's okay to skimp on flavor
and care just because people are going to be sharing dishes. We guess
they figure people will have no recollection of exactly what they
ate, so they won't know exactly what to complain about. Sure the stuff
looks like Italian food. It smells like Italian food. But it turns
out to be some amateurish conglomerate of watered-down American idea
of what Italian food is. Where's the love!? This particular location
was forced to close down for a while after a fire broke out in its
building. We figure it should have stayed closed. There was very little
traffic in the place before the fire, and even less afterward. We've
walked by many a weeknight, only to see bored waiters standing around
staring at each other. We see the curse of Johnny
Tejano's coming back to haunt this bland Italian joint very soon.
[MF] |
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