Rustic, low-lit underground seafood-focused Italian restaurant with an early-bird fixed-price menu, gorgeous back dining atrium, and hidden-away garden. Located in the heart of the East Village theater district; serving fresh pasta, fresh fish, and classic Italian dishes since 1986. its flavors are absolutely contemporary. This is one of the best places in the city to get good Italian food on a budget. The pasta—from the comically enormous spinach ravioli to the succulent sun-dried tomato fusilli—will seduce even the most strident Atkins followers. And the seafood lives up to its billing in the restaurant's moniker: sea scallops, scampi, salmon and their brethren are mouthwateringly fresh.