Becco
“You never felt pressured to leave even though turnover is a huge necessity in the theater district.”
“The Sinfonia di Pasta contains a Caesar Salad or antipasto misto (amazing) and unlimited 3 style pasta table service.”
“After an all day flight we had dinner at Lidia Bastianich's Becco and would have to say this was our favorite restaurant.”
Becco
Takes Reservations: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$$$ Price range $31-60
8 reviews
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Becco is one of my favorite restaurants in New York. It was opened by celebrity chefs, Lidia Bastianich and her son Joe [Master Chef]. It is a popular spot in Hell's Kitchen for lunch or dinner before and after Broadway shows. It is always hopping. I generally come here for the unlimited pasta, Sinfonia di Paste, for $19.95. The pastas are handmade and different every time. The price and pasta are awesome so you do not need to come here for Restaurant Week to get a great deal. Nevertheless, everything else I have eaten here is awesome. I really enjoyed the steak too.
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We decided that we would watch a show on Thursday night at the last minute. The show started at 8:15 so I pulled up Yelp to find a great place for a 6:15 dinner and that's how we ended up at Becco in Hells Kitchen.
We arrived at 6:15 without a reservation and the place was packed! I think it's a popular spot for pre theatre dinner crowd because they really thinned out when we left around 7:45. The hostess was great and sat us at a table for 2 in the room with the bar. There were no table cloths on these tables, but we didn't really care about that.
Immediately upon sitting down a beautiful tray of bread was placed on the table along with olives and I think hummus. They added olive oil to the hummus and I added a little salt and pepper. Yum! I literally said I think that this may be my favorite restaurant of the entire trip thus far! Based solely on service alone.
A waitress gave us the low down on the menu and we order a bottle of wine. $29! They have a whole page full of wine selections for $29. We go with her recommendation for a medium bodied wine. It was ok, good with dinner.
Not really understanding exactly how much food is served we may have over ordered.
First we ordered the carpaccio, perfectly thin delicious slices of raw beef topped with arugula, Parmesan cheese, olive oil salt and pepper. Really excellent
Then we ordered the veal piccata special and the stuffed peppers. The entrees come with a Cesar salad and for $9 more we added a sampler of the fresh pasta special as a midi dish.
The service is on point. I'm officially thrilled at the find!
The table is super small and I was a little worried that there wouldn't be enough room for anything else. Not to worry, they serve you the salad on your plates and they take away the salad plate after. Salad was good
Next the pasta midi dish! We got new plates, one waiter comes by and dishes a few ravioli on our plates (4-5 huge ravioli), then another waiter comes by with the penne with tomato basil sauce and finally another dishes the pappardelle with stewed rabbit. Holy crow it's a meal in and of itself! The penne was good. The pappardelle fresh pasta was on point but the sauce and rabbit were uninspired, not my favorite. I love mushrooms but the ravioli seemed overly mushroom, if that make sense, just ok for me. I did notice that many people ordered the for the special of salad and unlimited pasta but I would skip the midi if I could do it over.
The stuffed peppers stewed in tomato was good, probably better if I wasn't stuffed already. It did inspire me to go home and make my own version of this item.
Veal piccata was well cooked, good sear on outside and juicy inside but a little too tart.
Ambiance 5/5 reminds me of an Italian restaurant in Italy
Value 5/5
Food 3.99/5 it pains me but they're just a little off
Service 5/5 amazingly attentive but not over bearing
Restrooms or WC 5/5 very clean
If you've got plans to see a show or if you're in the area, give this place a try.
A variety of wine at all price points. My entire party ordered the all you can eat homemade pasta option. Even though I'm a vegetarian, they accommodated me by making a special pan of the one meat sauce pasta dish they were serving that night. Service was great. I'd definitely recommend reservations if you are heading for dinner before a show.
A famous place in Hell's Kitchen tat I always wanted to check out. Finally came here with a friend. I made reservation a few days ago – not difficult to book a weekday night dinner.
When I stepped in, I realized this place is large! It is been divided into various sections so you won't see much people in one area, but summing all up, it is a big restaurant compared to other ones in Hell's Kitchen.
They offer a long wine list here. The food is ordinary-nothing creative in the menu. My friend and I ordered salad and mussel to share. Salad was okay but we didn't like the mussel – it tasted bitter. We also chose braised pork and steak. Both were just so-so. To me, it doesn't quite deserve all the famous compliment given to this place.
Another friend who checked out this place before told us this is s tourist restaurant. I don't know if that's true but definitely think it needs more creative menu and better quality food to compete with tons of other wonderful restaurants nearby.
My recent trips to Italia have changed my food preferences forever! However, my love of Lidia's Becco has not changed. Becco;s Galletto 'al Forno' reminds one of a little taste of Firenze–crispy fresh free range chicken, with spring onion risotto. The friendly Hell's Kitchen service leaves me saying: "Prego e Arrivederci!"
Yes. If you haven't been to Becco's, then it is definitely worth a visit. Busy of course. Service was inconsistent when we went recently. But the food is very good. The grilled Branzino was perfectly prepared and seasoned nicely with herbs and lemon. Pastas were all good And the meatball for appetizer were so good. Good enough to come back again just for those.
Portions were large and a good value. We were seated at 6:15 and out in plenty of time for an 8:00 show at Richard Rogers theater.
I felt Becco was a stellar "after the play restaurant " and I really liked the concept of the three course meal offering.
If you order an entree it comes with a starter caesar salad and for an additional $9 you could add on a second course of three daily fresh pasta dishes. That would be too much food for me so I opted for their caesar salad and unlimited serving of the three daily pasta dishes for just under $25. The pastas offered the day I went were a shrimp fettuccine (which was prepared a way I had never had and was my favorite), a penne pasta with marinara sauce (the sauce was good but the pasta seemed store bought and not made in house) and the last was some sort of brown butter gnocchi with spinach (very delicious but also very rich).
Not sure I would go here if not already in the area for something else but it did not disappoint!
Great little neighborhood Italian place that our local NYC friends recommended for our visit. The food was quite good and the vibe was low key and local. Service was good and the menu had a lot of choices. I had a seafood dish over polenta and my husband had some braised beef special that he said was delicious. Overall, it's a place I would recommend.