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Italian Restaurant to Replace Steakhouse on 70th Street

November 21, 2019 | 10:36 AM
in FOOD, NEWS, OPEN/CLOSED
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Lincoln Square Steakhouse at 208 West 70th Street closed in September, and briefly moonlighted as a set for Law & Order. But now it’s being replaced by an Italian spot called La Tavola Delle Nonne, or “The Grandmother’s Table”, according to our source, who asked to be referred to as “a source close to the rigatoni”.

Anyway, Mr. Rigatoni tells us that it will open at the end of December. A nice Christmas gift for the neighborhood! Hopefully it will have more lasting power than the space’s prior two incarnations (remember Loi?).

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sp
3 years ago

NYers are suckers for Italian food, even (maybe especially) when it isn’t very good… So even though we already have a lot of Italian on the UWS, they have a fighting chance. Hopefully they are worth checking out more than once.

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Ed
Ed
3 years ago

“Mr Rigatoni” from an Italian restaurant? Seriously? Are we being punked here? LOL

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Sb
Sb
3 years ago
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Just wait til you meet his daughter, Penny.

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Deb
Deb
3 years ago
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Mr Rigatoni should have named the restaurant La Travolta Delle Nonne.

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Randi
Randi
3 years ago

Loi was a major loss.
They are now Midtown West, and still delicious!

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Louisa Caboy
Louisa Caboy
3 years ago
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It certainly was!

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anne
anne
3 years ago
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I agree!!

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J assimi
J assimi
3 years ago

I remember all the many, many incarnations at 208 W. 70 St since l960. The spot is cursed.

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Sara
Sara
3 years ago

I’ve lived in this ‘hood since ’03 and have lost count as to the number of restaurants that have occupied that space. It seems like it’s cursed while Cafe Lux next door is bursting at the seams most nights. I’m hoping this one has better luck!

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Filatura
Filatura
3 years ago

I hope Mr. Rigatoni’s food is better than his fractured Italian. The Grandmother’s Table translates to Il Tavolo Della Nonna, not La Tavola Delle Nonne. (Nonne is grandmothers, plural; table is masculine.) Wishing him luck anyway.

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Vince
Vince
3 years ago
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The italian version is correct. The english translation is flawed as it should read “the table of the grandmothers”.

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Filatura
Filatura
3 years ago
Reply to  Vince

You’re absolutely right about the grandmothers, Vince.
But “table,” as in “kitchen table,is “tavolo,” masculine, so it gets an “il” in front and an “o” at the end. (To complicate things, the word becomes feminine in other contexts, like “table of contents.”)

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Robin
Robin
3 years ago

And don’t forget Compass!

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uwsmom
uwsmom
3 years ago

Of course Mendy’s!

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jill
jill
3 years ago

i live on the block and that space needs to be reconfigured- or have amazing food and service. Fingers crossed that is fabulous! the rent there is very high so it will probably be expensive so make it great and maybe it will survive the curse!!

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Wendy
Wendy
3 years ago

Whatever restaurants have come and gone the classy, bright mural at the back of the restaurant has endured and I hope it will again.

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Patrick Harrigan
Patrick Harrigan
3 years ago

It’s just such a big place

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Laurie
Laurie
3 years ago

“La Tavola delle Nonne” actually translates as “the Grandmothers’ Table”—it’s more than one grandmother

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Laure manheimer
Laure manheimer
3 years ago

The grandmothers’table. Nonna is grand mother. Nonne is grand mothers (Plural) . Not that it makes a lot of difference. So we have more than one grand mother in the kitchen… may be they will do good “arrabiata” sauce…(Arabiatta=angry)!

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jp
jp
3 years ago

oh my…the translation is wrong: it should be “La Tavola dela Nona” (or change the translation to “The Grandmothers’ Table”

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tony Adams
tony Adams
3 years ago

“Delle Nonne” is plural, meaning more than one grandmother. The translation should be “The Grandmothers’ Table.”

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LKLA
LKLA
3 years ago

Two restaurants next to one another is always going to be challenging, more so on a side street with little foot traffic other than parents walking their kids to or from PS 199.

On top of that, the space is large, dark and uninviting. The decor for the most recent version, was horrific.

More importantly, every single one of the restaurant concepts in that space over the past 15-20 years have been either outright bad or not appropriate for that location.

What would do well there would be a “high end” diner. Something resembling The Smith or PJ Clarke’s. A non-tourist trap version of Viand. A place like Fairway Diner but just not on top of a rat infested supermarket.

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Sean
Sean
3 years ago

Make it something for the kids.

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Sean
Sean
3 years ago

Make it a roller rink.

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Jennifer
Jennifer
3 years ago

It should read the grandmothers’ table

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