Wow this is amazing - thanks for the heads up. Marea was one of my favorite meals in NYC.
what year?
I ate there many years ago - maybe 10 and loved it but heard so-so things after that.
2016 evidently. Been trying to find a bottarga pasta dish as good as what I had there; Mother Wolf recently had one but it paled in comparison.
yes, it was really really good there.
e baldi has a nice bottarga
I haven’t been to the newest version of Madeo but when they were on Beverly their bottarga was GREAT.
Any good?
pastas and meringue dessert were the highlights. they offer half-portions for their pastas which turned out to be really good qpr, as the portions were quite generous, so much so that i thought they made a mistake and sent out full portions.
crudos fine, space boring, service obsequious.
Going to check out tonight- which pastas were your favs (if you recall), besides the long menu standing fusilli ::drool::
i like the fusilli of course, mafaldine with huge chucks of shrimp, and casarecce with jumbo lump crab. the pappardelle was fine mainly because they used claw meat. the ricci and scampi on scampi for apps were also good. enjoy.
fusilli, red wine braised octopus, bone marrow
mafaldine, shrimp, garlic, lemon, parsley, mollica
casarecce, jumbo lump crab, sea urchin basil, calabrian chile
pappardelle, dungeness crab, scallion, tarragon
If you were going to compare all the high-end Italian places in town, where would Marea rank in comparison to say Funke-verse, Antico Nuovo, Mozzaplex, et al (I’m sure I’m forgetting some places)?
for seafood pasta it’s number 1 for me.
overall funke-plex still tops.
Ironically, I did Funke for my last birthday dinner and loved it, this year I picked Marea.
I’ll be with a group of 4, it sounds like the protein section of the menu isn’t memorable, and we should leverage the half-sized options to try a wider variety of seafood pastas?
I’m a big seafood pasta fan - I really enjoyed Cal Mare at the Beverly Center before they closed it.
i just focused on the pastas and didn’t try the proteins so can’t comment on that.
Cal Mare was great the first couple of times but it shuttered quickly!
I’ve heard great things about the seafood portion of the menu but haven’t been myself
Do you mean the “Meat and Fish” section of the menu specifically? The entire menu is Italian Seafood.
Their Uni & Crab Agnolotti was peak, but Beverly Center turned out not to be the dining mecca they tried to be.
Stay away from the halibut. They managed to overcook the fish, but also the flavors just didn’t meld together, at all.