Bistro Milano is an elegant looking white-tablecloth restaurant that even has its own bottled, super Tuscan, organic extra virgin olive oil on each table.  The service is spectacular, but sadly the food is amazingly mediocre.

I shared their signature dish of ravioli stuffed with mascarpone, ricotta and roasted vegetables in a saffron pumpkin sauce ($24) and the risotto funghi ($28). Although the dish looked good, the ravioli wasn’t al dente, it was undercooked and chewy (AKA raw), containing tasteless herbs and where’s-the-cheese? filling and little to no pumpkin flavor in the sauce. Truly horrid.  At least the mushroom risotto was better, although screaming for salt.

The Lobster tagliolini ($28) was much better with the homemade tagliolini topped with in-shell lobster tossed with a few asparagus and roasted plum tomatoes, garnished with fresh basil. As was the Tagliolini Al Nero Di Seppia Ai Frutti Mare ($28). The black tagliolini  came in a roasted tomato sauce with clams, calamari, shrimp and scallops also garnished with fresh basil.

The single vineyard, spicy berry Lamadrid Malbec from Agrelo, Mendoza, Argentina ($48) that we drank, worked with each dish.

– bonnie

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Bistro Milano
1350 Ave Of The Americas (actually on 55th Street)
New York, NY 10019
(212) 757-2600
bistromilanonewyorkcity.com
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