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Ballato
Italian
The gold-and-red-etched window on Houston reads like a dare, and plenty of people fail it, assuming red-sauce cliché and walking on. Inside, the space is narrow and weathered, and the family crew runs it with the kind of unhurried warmth that suggests nobody's leaving hungry or in a hurry. It's an old-school Italian-American restaurant, the sort where the cacio e pepe and cannoli are doing the heavy lifting without making a fuss about it.
The awards strongest first
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
One number, weighted & current 69
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Cacio e pepe
“The menu is filled with pasta classics like Roman cacio e pepe, tossed with sharp pecorino and freshly ground black pepper.”
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Pollo Emilio
“Signature specialties include pollo Emilio, a delicately breaded chicken cutlet draped in lemon-caper sauce”
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Clams oreganata
“clams oreganata speckled with garlicky breadcrumbs.”
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Cannoli
“Crisp cannoli shells filled with vanilla- and cinnamon-tinged ricotta cream rival any other version found from Palermo to Siracusa.”
Michelin Guide
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