A dozen of fancy Pristine York eating places have opened outposts in Miami. However what occurs when a complicated South Seashore playground takes the plunge in Ny?
Casa Tua, a Miami Italian-ish joint that has been a magnet for boldfacers within the Sunshine Atmosphere, leapfrogged to the Higher East Aspect this hour.
Moment the latest has a snooty recognition, the Pristine York outpost is most commonly welcoming, nevertheless it’s no doubt extra scene than delicacies. I will be able to’t say I’m stunned
Upcoming lengthy development delays, it’s splendid to have presen once more on the relaunched Surrey Resort on East 76 Boulevard, that former web site of Cafe Boulud, which was once dim for 4, pandemic-shadowed years.
Casa Tua founder Miky Grendene advised WWD he selected the Surrey as a result of, “I think the UES needs, more than downtown, new blood, new things, new energy.”
The ground staff — most commonly males clad in fits and ties — strikes as successfully as Josh Allen’s Expenses within the fourth quarter. There have been such a lot of who mentioned they had been Casa Tua veterans that I questioned who was once minding the bind in Miami. I heard “tutto bene?” extra occasions than a two-hour meal may arise.
Casa Tua trade in two strikingly other reports: the humming primary eating room and a sexier front room at the reverse aspect of the lodge foyer.
There’s power and celebrity energy to extra in each, however particularly in the primary room. I noticed Channel 5 celebrity Rosanna Scotto, advertising powerhouse Alison Brod and writer and previous “Real Housewife” Ramona Singer at the identical night time.
“[This] is a place for the 50-and-up crowd to see and be seen,” my wide-eyed buddy famous of the ladies flouncing across the artwork-festooned, Cipriani-like atmosphere in miniskirts.
The living room’s heat lighting fixtures, dim log, gleaming mirrors, comfortable banquettes, and mellow Italian-Spanish soundtrack are made for love. Just a within sight male diner’s booming come-ons to the waitress shattered the temper.
Anyplace you sit down, the power at the plate will also be missing. The mid-priced (by way of nowadays’s requirements) menu boasts constituent components nevertheless it isn’t within the strongly seasoned league of within sight Sant Ambroeus.
Casa Tua’s dishes are annoyingly habitual for its atypical social aspirations. They unpredictably swing from first-rate to general duds.
Smartly-spiced bresaola ($36) with shaved Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, in a beneficiant portion, had extra taste than the oddly lifeless, 36-month-aged prosciutto di Parma ($42), which was once sliced to thick.
Lobster spaghetti a los angeles chittara ($42) arrived al dente with a delightful chili-sparked tomato sauce.
However on two events, the timid cacio e pepe ($32) two times had us questioning, “Where’s the pepe?”
Rooster alla diavola ($44) lived as much as its call, as juicy because it was once peppercorn-sparked. However veal milanese ($72 and plethora for 2) lacked persona underneath a brittle batter.
In an entire life of minestrone-slurping, I by no means had any as slim as Casa Tua’s struggle on the vintage soup ($22). Both re-name it “hot water with carrot and potato fragments” or put it at the first airplane again to Miami.
Conventional muffins corresponding to tiramusu are excellent, however travel with “Miky’s Pistachio Gelato,” a $30, creamy, multi-layer affair atop crackling Rice Krispies.
It’s massive plethora for no less than 3, and scrumptious plethora to place previous duds in the back of you.
Casa Tua is remarkably public-friendly even if it’s hooked up to a non-public membership of the similar call. The heat was once absent most effective in an unsmiling hostess who claimed the living room, the place I requested to be seated, was once “fully committed” at 7 p.m.; it became out to be lower than half-full all night time.
I’ll be again to the living room for a untouched, lighter menu they plan to initiation this past — and hope for a community decent of the atmosphere.
