Pepe Rossi and Pepe Verde
This is a tiny chain of three tiny restaurants (one of them you could touch both walls if you stand in the middle and stretch your hands out to your sides) owned by two brothers from Milan, who were obviously missing home-cooked Italian food and decided to share a bit of it with the rest of us. Also ridiculously cheap, but full of flavor, texture, fabulous nuances and subtle punches. When my friend Lita wanted food as it was at home, she came here.
Her favorites being: Spaghetti Pesto with Potato and String Beans
My favorites being: anything! Penne with Spinach Ricotta Cheese Tomato Basil
My sister's favortie: Penne à la vodka, but I don't see it anymore on the menu. Maybe it will be there by the time you get there.
Go for the homemade foccacia, the $5 organic mixed green salad, for the eggplant breaded and fried to perfection, for the antipasti of peppers or calamari or olives or fresh, fresh, fresh mozzarella, the pastas how Italians like them, or for a full on meal that will do nothing but satiate every craving you ever had. Yes, you must go.
They're motto, in case you want to know:
“NO DIET COKE - NO SKIM MILK - NO DECAF COFFEE - ONLY GOOD FOOD”
I recommend the tiniest one off Houston Street on the border of Soho and West Village (Pepe Rosso To Go), just because... it's tiny, but still fabulous!
Pepe Giallo (this is the expensive one, which we never went to... but it looks nice!)
253 Tenth Avenue (& W. 25th Street)
Pepe Verde (the one we used to go to when we were deep in the West Village and hungry! Here you can sit and eat and you won't knock your neighbor's plate off their lap)
559 Hudson Street (between Perry & 11th Street)
No real website, but I'll include the link from their other websites
Pepe Rosso to go (good things come in small packages! --- Pastas are $7-$10!)
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