Remember the 2007 movie The Visitor with Oscar-nominated Richard Jenkins about a college professor who returns to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment? Well, that story is a musical at The Public Theater starring David Hyde Pierce. I highly recommend this 90-minute show!

Afterward, we headed to Rubirosa, a place that I’d been hearing about since it appeared as a Michelin Bib Gourmand years ago, meaning it was good quality and a good value. It’s a small, loud and cramped family-run neighborhood restaurant and pizzeria on Mulberry Street.

We shared their two apps before the main event. First, the eponymous arugula salad with grape tomatoes and bocconcini (mozzarella balls) all topped with shredded cheese and huge croutons ($18) and their eggplant Parmigiano ($16) app with very breaded slices of that nightshade topped with tomato sauce. With that, I sipped their house branded Montepulciano Rubirossa Abruzzo ($17).


We ordered the Rubirosa Supreme ($26 for small) pizza with pepperoni, mini meatballs and roasted garlic on a cracker-thin crust at the edges.  Their recipe is an heirloom one from Joe and Pat’s on Staten Island.

Rubirosa
SoHo
235 Mulberry St.
New York, NY 10012
212-965-0500
rubirosanyc.com/