- 181 Thompson Street, Greenwich Village
- The original Major Food Group room
- Tableside Caesar, veal parmesan, the spicy rigatoni vodka
- Reservations open at 10am, thirty days out
Carbone opened on Thompson Street in 2013 and remains the room that built Major Food Group — Italian-American by way of mid-century theatre, tableside Caesar, the veal parmesan, the spicy rigatoni vodka that the rest of the city has spent a decade copying. The booths in the back room hold the regulars; the front tables hold the rest.
The reservation game is the reservation game — thirty days out, ten in the morning, the right app on the right device. The cooking is more serious than the room lets on and the wine list is the deepest red-sauce list anywhere. The right room for the long, loud, four-hour dinner.
Book it for the booth and the rigatoni.
