Fiat Cafe
“A nice little place in Nolita that is turning out great Italian staples at reasonable prices.”
“From my experience, the paninis are great, with the crispy, crunchy bread and the savory filling.”
“Highly recommend:
– Pappardelle Pasta with shitake, oysters cremini mushrooms, duck confit, ragout and finished with truffle oil.”
Fiat Cafe
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Came here for brunch, and it was alright.
Good service- very friendly, but the food was just perfectly ok. My duck mushroom pasta was bland, I had to keep adding cheese to get some flavor. I had a bite of the egg/avocado toast and it was standard.
I might come back to it a second chance, order one of their panini sandwiches
Do not come here.
Got off work and decided to grab a bite with my parents. Food is meh and service is awful. They put tax ON TOP OF THE TIP. Is that even legal?? It's also cash only, so I'm pretty sure they just pocket everything lol
Free "dessert" with check-in is a pudding cup. Save your calories and go to Rice to Riches around the corner if you're really craving dessert.
ZERO STARS. PLACE DID NOT DO ANYTHING FOR ME EXCEPT WASTED MY TIME. I WAS JET LAGGED, HUNGOVER AND HUNGRY!
I seriously wanted to try this place out for brunch on a Saturday morning. However, when I called to make reservations for a party of 3. I was put on HOLD after I had spoken w/ the female hostess (via phone) w/ a broken accent whom took my name down and then she put me on HOLD once again. What for. What was the point of taken my name down, putting me on hold for… If you didn't have a table in half an hour or an hour then don't bother wasting my time. I was patient enough to wait.. It is not brain surgery to figure out if you have a table within a certain time frame.
Not the best service and food here. I honestly would not come here again. As a matter of fact, my family and I came here for brunch because the wait for Cafe Gitane near by was over 45 minutes. That's why we decided to just randomly pick another brunch place. The fact that there was no wait for this place should've set the alarm off but I guess we were too hungry.
This place is small and cramped. No matter which table you're seated at, you will feel like you're elbowing the stranger next to you or the stranger behind you is on top of you or will be in a minute or two. The tables don't look too clean and let's get to the utensils and water cups. They were so dirty, I had to give one of the cups back to them and ask for another one. I was scared to drink from the cups.
Another group came a few minutes after us and was seated behind our table. They were served iced water and bread with olive oil immediately. However, for you, who came before them, got nothing. The water came after that. But we were really hungry and kept wondering if we were going to get some bread to munch on while waiting for our orders (we ordered already and still no bread). We kept looking around and I guess we made eye contact with one of the waiters and that's when maybe they for the hint. The bread came but it was some hard and stale bread.
We ordered the salmon eggs Benedict, Pappardelle pasta, and a Linguini fini pasta. We only ordered three things for four people because we plan to eat something else after this (obvious that it wasn't going to satisfy us). The salmon eggs Benedict was $9.50, rather cheap, so I knew I wasn't going to get the best thing out there. It was rather small with salad and no fries! I wouldn't mind paying a bit more for that, and would've made the dish look nicer/presentable. However, the Pappardelle pasta was extremely flavorful and just a tadbit salty in my opinion. I really liked it though, it had shitake and oyster Cremini mushrooms, and duck with truffle oil. Truffle oil can make anything taste good and it went really well with everything.
The linguini fini pasta was alright, quite a lot of clams and seafood in there. The pasta was a bit hard for me personally. But it had a good taste because of the garlic (big bits on the bottom).
Although it took them forever after I asked about the Yelp check in for a free dessert, they did end up honoring the check in and we were given the Coffee Pannacotta (yep you don't get to choose a dessert). It was alright, I would pass if I had to pay $5 for that (price on menu).
Three stars because at least I liked their Pappardelle pasta and linguini fini pasta.
I got delivery so maybe it's better in the store, but the spaghetti and meatballs was really not great. Meatballs were a really strange texture and the sauce was really thin and flavorless. Their food looks really good in the pictures I've seen here so it's possible I just ordered the wrong thing, but the spaghetti and meatballs are a nah.
Super cheap, solid food, very cute and cozy, and nice service!
A funky little cafe on Mott Street, minimal effort at trendy decor, small, toilet is downstairs, hardly any kitchen space and they don't take credit cards. It reminds me of what downtown was like before it got gentrified. I love the place. The most expensive design element here is their neon sign.
Come here with no expectations of a culinary masterpiece. Sit and enjoy your coffee. Its always calm and off the tourist radar. Prices are reasonable. Service is good since it's only five feet from the kitchen to the tables. It's where I go once a week for a breakfast omelet–which they graciously cook to my specifications. If you look at previous Yelp reviews you can see that people either love it or hate it. As I said, I'm in the former group. But I look at dining/drinking as an experience to be appreciated in context. In this case the atmosphere enhances the experience. I can almost imagine I'm sitting in a run down cafe on a small side street in Trastevere in Rome–almost.
Came here for the second time today. I always get tha avo toast with poached eggs and it's always perfect! Eggs are poached to perfection and the waiters are friendly. I tried some of my friends eggs royale and it was also great. Very affordable brunch in Manhattan!/