Fausto

A Vanderbilt Avenue mainstay where handmade pasta and a fiercely curated Italian wine list make the case for staying past dessert.

Fausto runs on the kind of confidence that comes from doing a few things very well: pasta rolled in-house daily, a wine list heavy on small Italian producers you'll want to write down, and a dining room warm enough that regulars linger over the last of the bottle. The kitchen leans into the fat and salt of northern Italian cooking without apology, and the service moves at exactly the pace a three-hour dinner requires.

Best for: Date night or a long dinner with a bottle you won't find at the wine shop down the block