La Tavola
This perfectly agreeable Little Italy restaurant carves out a niche with its casual (but not overly so) setting, and its made-from-scratch pasta dishes, all of them enterprising, complex in composition, but simple in their impact--green and white linguine tossed with prosciutto, shallots, mushrooms, and sweet peas or priests' caps stuffed with ricotta cheese and chopped spinach. Veal and seafood fill up the refreshingly manageable menu.