Decent place in little Italy. When the town is called "Little Italy," I am expecting Lidia Bastianich or Mario Batali quality and this place falls only a tad short. I had the fish of the day and it was only slightly overdone. Overall, the food was average to good (3 stars) and gave me renewed hope in Little Italy after a huge disappointment with Mama Santa's (ewww...*shivers).
However, seating was a little disorganized. We had to wait a few minutes at the door with waiters/waitresses walking past us and not even acknowledging us. Where's the maitre d'? Maybe because it was a Saturday night and the area was bustling and the restaurant was busy, but at least tell acknowledge our presence and tell us you'll be right with us!
Street parking gets fairly difficult at night in Little Italy, esp. Friday and Saturday nights, but there's $5 valet parking.
The following has nothing to do with the restaurant rating:
After dinner, we went to Corbo's (Presti's just closed) and had some delicious sfogliatelle and coconut chocolate cake. It's nice to have a couple a great bakeries around! But unfortunately, my night was soured by a drunk guy making some extremely racist comments towards me :( Very disturbing in this day and age.