Caffe Pertutti, a mainstay of Broadway is closed forever. Apparently, no one ate $8.50 hamburgers.
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Caffe Pertutti, a mainstay of Broadway is closed forever. Apparently, no one ate $8.50 hamburgers.
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@newguy Pertutti was THE BEST! New Years there with great food, drinks, dessert, and champagne for under 50. my girlfriend – now wife and I loved it. RIP – best tiramisu and corcioffo (sp?) sauce in the world.
Please – no fast food, no chain restaurants. We already took the soul out of the country, no need to do it to the city. Everyone do yourselves a favor. Turn OFF the Soprano’s, Sex in the City, and any other dumb show pretending to represent the city. Think for yourselves and go to a small local mom and pop and experience real food.
@newguy You people are total imbeciles…
You live in NY f’ing City home to the greatest restaurants in the world and you want chain food. You must have gone to rent a brain to get into Columbia! California Pizza, Panda Express? – go back to your commercial rerun suburban blah and leave the city
@imhungry How about IHOP??
or even CHILLIS!!!
@Anonymous According to the fellow in charge of the renovation (actually a gut job, if you get a look past the door), the new restaurant will be an Italian trattoria owned by the same folks who run Nonna, on Columbus and 85th. The kitchen will stay open till 2:00 a.m. and the doors will stay open till 4:00, he added. Check back in mid to late March.
@umm jamba juice has food too. and breakfast smoothies, which you eat with a spoon. there. and at least it’s better than panera, and it’s tasty.
@AlsoStudyingintheUK BURGER KING!!!!
@Fro-Hoe Why not add another Pinkberry? There tends to be a lack of seasonal Pomegranate seeds, usually resulting in general dissatisfaction. This way, we can replace $8.50 burgers with $8.50 frozen yogurt.
@human rights Saigon Grill: Let the controversy ensure
@Virginian I’m don’t even eat meat and I’d do anything to get a Five Guys up here.
@californian in-n-out would never make it to NYC because they ship their never-frozen beef from one slaughterhouse (i forget where, but obviously in california, nevada, or arizona).
@i second In n out! Or its NY kin, Shake Shack. We need a decent burger place around here
@DHI How did the Rockets sweep the Magic in the 1995 NBA Finals?
Hakeem was able to shake Shaq.
No, I’m not the one making all the horrible puns, just this one.
Shake Shack is a quality establishment.
@ieieieie since when is chipotle the gold standard of good mexican? if you can’t make it to california at least go to taqueria and get away from that white-rice illegit shit.
also any thoughts on why nothing’s moved into the former home of roadhouse or mona? i hope the carcass of pertutti won’t join them as a reminder of why morningside heights blows
@hmm according to the department of buildings database it’s a columbia owned building.
NOW IS THE TIME TO HARASS STUDENT GOVERNMENT TO HARASS CU ADMINISTRATION TO ENSURE THEY DON’T RENT TO ANOTHER $25+ BULLSHIT RESTAURANT.
GO GO GO!!!
@oh. there it goes.
@crap... i apparently don’t know how to embed a link. just go here. copy-paste:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/fbh/577951088.html
@possibly... eh?
@anon I second the bar idea. 1020 is so tired.
Or, something that’s actually decent. Whoever is talking about chik-fil-a or Wendy’s or Panda Express needs to get the hell out. Move to suburbia, that’s disgusting.
@hooray praise the lord. As for what to do with the space, I vote they just expand deluxe. Ther shit is goooooood, also I can afford it.
@Your tastes are strange.
@yip but when in rome…
@Pisticci Is pretty awesome.
@McFister The food sucks on Broadway because your taste in food sucks.
@potato oles taco johns!!
some one want to go in on a six-pack and a pound?
@askdnaksf oh my, anna’s is no ordinary burrito shop. if you’re ever in the boston area, you must go. it’s so much better than chipotle.
@l never said how bout another cannnos we want the druken jocks closer to home!
@I never said Pertutti’s was an amazing Italian restaurant. I merely said that I will always prefer a private restaurant to the crap served by all the chains mentioned here. Maybe you haven’t lived here long enough, but if a Wendy’s “meal” costs upwards of $6, I really don’t think $8.50 is excessive for a hamburger in a restaurant with actual waiters and a decent atmosphere. Have any of you even been south of 110th? There are amazing places to eat besides your nauseating mega-corporations…if you only knew where to look…or cared to ask.
@dunkin donuts anything but another goddamn Starbucks for the hipsters to buy $4+ coffees in.
You DRINK it. It’s not an accessory.
@ugh you people suck. the only other chain eatery that would be acceptable around here is jamba juice. I would be eternally happy if they opened one up there. Panera can kiss my ass, you all know it blows.
@DHI Jamba Juice is not an eatery because you do not eat juice. You already have Starbucks, Pinkberry, Tasti-D-Lite(or however it’s spelled) and whatever shitty juice place is already on campus for overpriced non-meals.
Fuck a Jamba Juice. The saddest moment throughout the whole Sopranos series was when Tony sold that property to Jamba Juice.
@you suck. you can kiss Panera’s ass, douchebag
@zboczeniec and PS: I’m aware that Havana Central is Cuban, before everyone goes crazy. It’s the same shit–just in yellow rice instead of tortillas.
@my vote is for.. IHOP!
btw- it’s not a matter of walking to 123rd. the point is that those are the only two decent italian places in the area AND they’re kind of tucked away. and have you ever ordered fried calamari in? it sucks. don’t be so disgruntled.
@zboczeniec If another Mexican restaurant moves into this neighborhood I’m transferring to NYU. Chipotle, Havanna Central, Taqueria y Fonda la Mexicana, the other various Taquerias … don’t you people get sick of tacos????????
@i believe Havana central is cuban. I think you meant brown restaurants.
@yes I want anna’s!!
@okteam TACO JOHNS!
ANNA’S TAQUERIA!
WAFFLE HOUSE!
i love you people. all my long-lost culinary brothers and sisters showed up to comment on this thread, apparently.
but seriously, a bar would be nice. a THEME BAR.
@hungry I ordered the ravioli once at pertutti and I got literally 5 pieces. 5 ravioli’s does not a meal make.
@guy FIVE GUYS IS COMING!!!! WOOOOOO
@Studying in England CAFFE NERO!
@Please Let them open a bar. That’s fun. Am caf, soha/mona, roadhouse, nachos are all gone, the line to get into 1020 is consequentially way too long, and the West End sucks now(more than before). Bar. Fun. If they want to be a coffee shop during the day with cheap good coffee, couches and power outlets for laptops, that would also be lovely. I can’t for the life of me understand why there are not more coffeshop-by-day/bars-by-night around Columbia.
@yes a bar would be best. We have good italian within walking distance (soha, pisticci) but no good bars within walking distance.
@Eh.... Sip is a good start to your desires. Alas it is a little small. However, coffee is most excellent, wifi is good, and cocktails are still strong, albeit a bit pricey for this neighborhood.
@the best the best italian food in morningside is in ferris booth commons, zagat says the “insouciant service” and “transcendent if inconsistent” garlic bread carry the day
@today's lesson five guys > in-n-out
@in-n-out will never come to godless new york. Read up on the chain… even if the double-double animal-style is awesome
@only in my dreams Taco Johns anyone?
@good couldn’t stand the place.
yay for justice!
@The neighborhood has a real Op-Pertutti-ty! (to get better food)
@pertutti was decent food. not great. but better than most of the other garbage on the broadway stretch.
did someone above say v and t’s was good italian food? if by good you mean what the local italian restaurant in suburbia serves, than it is right on track.
sezzi medi is awesome. no way about it. and anyone who bitches about walking 10 blocks at most for dinner needs to do some more walking.
@cosi bring a cosi!!!!!
@au contraire They definitely had “decent Italian food,” by the way. It was certainly not 3 Michelin stars, but it was more than decent.
@au contraire Are you kidding me? Pertutti was infinitely better than any of the on-campus eateries, including Swish and Ollies. You’re complaining about an $8.50 hamburger? How about the $4 jelly-beans in Cafe 212? This is a shame.
@yoooo waffflllleee hooouuuusseeeee
@We need IN-N-OUT BURGER!!
@ianc-b how about a new bar?
@wow There’s really bad taste on this campus. Panda express better than Swish or Ollie’s? That’s just ridiculous.
@I would enjoy anything dealing with BBQ!!!
@rumor i met someone once who said she was in negotiations to take over pertutti’s lease. she also cooked some damn fine italian food.
@omg!!! I would give my left nut for a chick-fil-a…
@indeed then you wouldn’t have to venture down to 8th just to get a chicken sandwich of monumentally delicious proportions
@EAL As a denizen of Virginia, I second the motion for a Five Guys in Morningside Heights. Or, better yet, a Chick-Fil-A.
We could also bring back Global Ink.
@adding my vote as a dc resident, i third the motion for a five guys…even though it’ll ensure a heart attack at the age of 45.
@MIP I fourth the motion for Five Guys, and heck, I’m from Texas.
Oh Five Guys, how you persuade me every time I make a rendezvous down 55th street…
@i liked Pertutti. And I will always prefer a small privately owned restaurant with slightly higher prices to a fast food joint that serves total crap — both in terms of taste and nutritious value.
@OH YOU TOOL Pertutti was overpriced and not that good no matter how you look at it GTFO
@Native New Yorker Bravo.
@wow... i feel sorry for what you think is great food
@zombi it takes too long to walk to 12π.
ferris is closer and pasta tastes like brains.
@meh is going to 12rd or 124th for decent (arguable) Italian really that difficult? Why not just order in, then? Or go to V&T.
@Food #14 is right. It’d be awesome if they opened a Panda Express or some other fast food joint there. California Pizza Kitchen would be good, too. The food around Columbia SUCKS. Like, it totally sucks.
@def omg panda express would be AWESOME. they would shut down ollie’s and swish so fast.
@DHI California Pizza Kitchen isn’t cheap, or fast, or great pizza.
@I had My sixth grade birthday party there; it took that long to close and it sucked even back then. Decent Italian that you don’t have to go up to 123rd or 124th for would be nice.
@uhhh suburban mall food is better than any of the crap you find around columbia. even a mcdonald’s would be better.
@zombie even so, alexw, you will not escape.
brains
@alexw They are replacing Pertutti with a helicopter landing pad.
truth
@DHI 911truth.org
Deal with it.
@DHI I would also be down with a Wendy’s.
@fff the places very close to Columbia generally suck. they are expensive and not very good. (MW, Swish, Ollie’s, Ham Del, Strokos, Pertutti, Ivy League Stationers).
The problem, presumably, is that columbia people will spend lots of money at basically any place so long as they can stumble out to it directly from their dorms. It’s a bit like the overcharging at airports. (At an airport you have lots of well-off people in a small enclosed space with nothing to do for an hour. These people will buy at elevated prices, so there is need to lower prices.)
@DHI Now that Five Guys is opening franchises all over the damn map, they should build one there.
@DHI The best part about the menu is that while they were trying to say they had half-pound burgers, they instead said the burgers were “1/2 beef” and didn’t specify what the other half was.
@personally... i hope they just replace it with a good italian place. the closest thing to decent italian food is sezz medi or max soha and they’re up on 123 and amsterdam.
@please Panera!
@McFister Panera? Keep your suburban mall food where you came from.
@Ugh Keep your douchebaggery to yourself. Panera is the shit.
@ahh every time i see a vacant restaurant space, the dreamer in me hopes an anna’s taqueria will come down from massachusetts.
@omg, I would keel over and die if ana’s came to nyc. that would be freakin sweet.
@... Thank god…. I hope they replace this with something decent…. preferrably something that can spruce up the nightlife on Broadway
@well... it’ll probably be “the shoe tree for kids” uptown location. you know, because two blocks down is just too downtown.