Monte's Trattoria • 1918

In a Greenwich Village cellar where Italian immigrants Louis and Sylvia Medica first served Northern Italian fare in 1918, Chef Pietro Mosconi now carries the torch with handmade pastas and specialties from Emilia-Romagna, a tradition passed to him when the Mosconi family took over in the 1970s. The brick-walled dining room has fed generations of New Yorkers craving the kind of old-world recipes that haven't changed in decades. Come for the tagliatelle al ragù and stay for the sense that you've stepped into a family kitchen unchanged by time.