I am sitting in the Downtown Cocktail Room listening to some flithy paralegal skank trying to impress the pants off some married hot stud young attorney ---that has nothing to do with the story but I threw it in because the Cocktail Room is fairly upscale and it sits among tattoo parlors and pawn shops.
I've eaten at the Middle Eastern take out next to Uncle Joe's and it's great but the bartender intervened and told about the pasta.
The lasagna with meatball and sausage (around the corner) at this divey hole in the wall is beyond description. You must go here.