Marea, New York City: Manhattan’s Best Business Lunch

Large and filled with light, the restaurant was designed to impress. The food, in the other hand, is made to satisfy

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Bobby Ghosh for TIME

In a very crowded marketplace, Chef Michael White’s Italian seafood restaurant offers Midtown Manhattan’s best business lunch. Go on Fridays, when you’re not pressed to return to the office, and can take a glass or three of Prosecco. Large and filled with light, the restaurant was designed to impress. The food, in the other hand, is made to satisfy.

  1. Granchio with perkytoe crab, beets, orange and horseradish
  2. Rigatoni with Genoevese ragu
  3. Ravioli with spare ribs
  4. Polipo (grilled octopus)
  5. Spaghetti with crab, sea urchin and basil

Bobby Ghosh is an editor-at-large at TIME. Ghosh Eats documents his high-low gastronomic adventures.