Gigino Trattoria
“Gigino is a mid priced restaurant in a great location with an awesome Tribeca vibe.”
“My friend had the ossobuco d'agnello and really enjoyed it and stated it was the perfect portion size.”
“I love the osso bucco, and my wife always gets the purple pasta.”
Gigino Trattoria
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Stopped in for dinner on the early side in a Friday night. The restaurant was decently crowded but nothing too crazy, lots of little kids.
The service we received was awful. I think the server came to the table two times. It took an incredibly long time to get just our waters and some bread. Not sure what the issue was but the service was just terrible. On the plus side, the food was delicious. I ordered ravioli and my friend ordered chicken parm. Both made up for the terrible service. Another thing that I didn't really like about this place was the prices were high and the portions were super tiny. Not sure if I'll come back again.
First, I love the atmosphere here. It's exposed brick walls with the menu scribbled in between makes it look like a street in Rome. Pretty awesome.
The food is good. We had the mozzarella and roasted peppers as an appetizer. The mozzarella was good but quite small for the price. We each got a pasta dish and both were good. The stand out though, strangely enough, was the olive oil they had on the tables. It was some of the best olive oil I ever had. To the point that I took a picture of it and searched high and low for it online until I finally found it in a tiny Italian shop in Staten Island and had them ship it to me. I may have an olive oil problem. But it was that good.
Tucked all the wayyy downtown on Greenwich Street lies Gigino Trattoria. Now, you might be enticed to go to the 10,001 restaurants in Little Italy just a bit farther north, but here's my pitch why you might wanna try Gigino Trattoria instead. All the restaurants in Little Italy are fiercely trying to outdo the other in terms of "We are the truest authentic Italian restaurant!", and they each even have aggressive male hosts that stand outside the corner and literally try to hustle you into their restaurants if you so much as walk by their respective restaurant!
You'll find none of that at Gigino Trattoria. Its a nice Italian eatery located in trendy Tribeca. There's no aggressive host trying to hustle you into the door, and the ambience is cozy and relaxed. Perfect place to have a real dinner without feeling rushed.
I came in on a Friday night ravenous, so I actually ordered in reverse LOL. I made sure to order my main course first so I could replenish much needed carbs. I ordered the Orecchiette Broccoli e Salsiccia. I could not have called for a better dish! The ear shaped pasta cooked just right, the bits of sausage were juicy with the right balance of spice and salt, and the broccoli rabe adding an interesting bitter but not unpleasant tone. Think of a really good arugula salad but hot LOL.
After the Orecchiette, I still needed a little something, not another main course but something. I got the Caprese salad, which consists of a ball of fresh mozzarella atop a bed of three slices of ripened tomatoes in a simple vinegar & olive oil dressing. The mozzarella was nice and creamy, and the tomatoes were a good compliment.
I finished the night with a cup of frothy Cappuccino, and the Summer Sorbet. The house sorbet consists of three different flavors, mixed berry, peach, and lemon, topped with sliced slivers of strawberry and served in a dessert shell. The sorbet was refreshing, it was actually tangy and not overly sweet.
Everything was soo wonderful that I tipped extra well for the whole house.
Cute and cozy with very nice staff and nice front patio. Excellent swordfish and very good pasta
Portions small and expensive ($4 coffee) but perhaps not to highly priced for Tribecca (comparing these prices to the similar Cacio e Vino in the East Village is a shock).
Wide selection of good modest-portioned desserts.
Came here for lunch and ordered the paparadelle with bolognese. He ordered the mushroom truffle pizza. We shared a caprese salad. Overall it was a nice experience. Had a nice spot by the window.
Had dinner here for Christmas and left very unimpressed with the place. The decor is actually cute but we were seated in the back and there was a draft from the windows and the skylight would be nice if it got cleaned once or twice a year.
They start out with a decent bread basket, a mix of Italian bread and Foccacia with a small dish of Gardiniera which was ok. For an app I had cozze a modo mio which was Mussels with Garlic, oil, peas and bread crumbs and Im not sure how you screw up Mussels one of my favorite foods but they did. Half the shells were empty and only a few lost souls were swimming in the sauce so not sure where the rest escaped to, the sauce was awful, a gloppy mess that tasted like Campbells Cream of Garlic soup with crutons that I am sure came out of a box. One of the worst dishes I have had in 2014.
My main was a little better. it was edible at least. I got the Orechiette pasta with Brocolli Rabe and Sausage. A dish I get in many places and also make myself. It was pretty lackluster, kinda gummy and salty with just tiny little crumbles of sausage and mostly the stems of the Rabe. Lets say if I got it from the corner pizza spot it wouldnt be so bad but for 19.00 for a small bowl of pasta it was pretty bad.
Service was decent, nothing memorable either way.
Standard Italian food. That's about it…. don't expect to be overly impressed.
I've tried a few dishes here, and everything was fine. Servers are okay – not the most attentive or reliable, but they do their job. Bus boys pour you water when your cup is running low. They give you bread and olive oil, like most other Italian places do. They have wine. The hostesses are all friendly, and maybe one of them as an Italian accent.
I'm sure I could think of more examples to further stress the mediocrity of Gigino Trattoria, but that should do.
Not bad for a slightly upper-end business lunch. Nice view of the park, rustic decor, huge menu with anything from pasta to salads to seafood and meat entrees. The mahi mahi had a nice crusting, but I must admit the vegetable garnishes were pretty skimpy – as in 2 lettuce leaves and maybe one quarter of a sliced tomato, not to mention the single slice of grilled eggplant which was supposed to be the key side. Oh, and the bread was stale too.