After a bit of a busy time for us, we’re back and we want to share with you two new spots we recently enjoyed!  The restaurants we’re featuring today have a lot in common:  they’re both in cozy and tucked away spaces, they both serve up Italian food, and they’re also just a mile and a half from each other in Manhattan.  And best of all, we were able to enjoy some great, vegetarian-friendly dishes at both spots.  We’ll let you know here where we visited and what we enjoyed at each restaurant – but take note that there are some images of meat here.

The first place we went was Piccolo Angolo, in the West Village.  Unlike many of the other restaurants in the area, this isn’t a trendy or buzzy spot – it’s just a family-run old school place serving up some excellent pastas and other dishes.  We started our meal there with the asparagus parmigiana – it’s baked asparagus stalks topped with red sauce and Parmesan cheese.

For pastas, Miriam got the fiocchi de pere, stuffed with four cheeses and candied pears, all in a brown butter and sage sauce.

While Cyril had the gnocchi bolognese, with a sauce made from tomatoes, beef and Parmesan.

And we also split an order of the eggplant parm.

Now if you want to head directly across the island and over to the East Village, you’ll find Caffe Corretto – it’s actually closed temporarily right now, but we were able to go a few months ago and really liked it, so be sure to check it out when it reopens.  We started there with what turned out to be one of the best appetizers we’ve ever had:  this burrata, which is stuffed with pesto and comes served on a piece of focaccia topped with tomato sauce.

Then Miriam got the pappardelle, in a vodka sauce …

… and Cyril once again had some gnocchi, this time in an amatriciana sauce made with tomatoes, onions and bacon.

As you may have noticed, Italian is one of our favorite cuisines, so we’re always happy to find some more good Italian restaurants in New York.  Piccolo Angolo was a fun place to get some hearty and classic dishes, while Caffe Corretto let us try two fun pasta dishes and an amazing treat of burrata and pesto.  There’s so many Italian restaurants in the city, and these two spots are gems spread across Greenwich Village – you can go to Piccolo Angolo now and Caffe Corretto when it opens again, and we’re sure you’ll enjoy whatever you get at each place.