Cacio e Vino 80 2nd Ave. (4th & 5th Sts.)
East Village
212.228.3269
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Cacio e Vino:
An outpost of the strangely scooter-rific trattoria Cacio e Pepe ("cheese and pepper"), Cacio e Vino ("cheese and wine") has bred true. The wine bar shares its parent restaurant's low-key, intimate ambience and passion for the home country (no fake accents here--both owner Giusto Priola and chef Alessandro Ancona are Sicilian natives). From the size of the wine list, which hovers around 100 bottles, half the vineyards in Sicily must have been drained to satisfy New York's snobby Dionysian thirst. Even diehard oenophiles should look beyond glasses of vino to explore plates of anchovy-topped Sicilian flatbread, translucent slices of beef carpaccio, or 27 kinds of pizza, fresh from a wood-burning oven.
Victim of a robbery on Sat., 7/31/10 at Cacio e Vino. A pair of thieves refused to sit at the table they were being seated at and insisted on a table that was barely 5 inches away from ours. Though I caught the thief with her hand in my friend's purse and confronted her, she and her partner took off with not even a word or attempt to stop them by any of the staff, including the manager. After I followed them out and called the cops, as well as filed a report...I returned to little if any condolences from the staff. So:1.Expect little to no help from the staff of the restaurant as you alert them that you are being robbed. 2. A $300 meal doesn't warrant a complimentary beverage or remorse after being robbed.
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