Felice on Hudson

Felice on Hudson is the West Village outpost of the family-rooted Felice Italian group — fifteen-plus locations across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the suburbs — set in a Sam Tannehill-designed brownstone room with a curved wooden front bar and a velvet-banquette back dining room. Executive chef Lorenzo Fiorani runs a rustic Tuscan-inspired program: fettuccine alla Chiantigiana, gnudi cacio e pepe, peekytoe crab crostini, pollo fritto, against a deep Italian wine list with serious organic and orange representation. The room reads as the most intentionally neighborhood-romantic of the Felice constellation; each location is styled distinctly rather than uniformly, and Hudson is the one that slots into the brownstone-lined block. For Tuscan-leaning Italian in a small, neighborhood-romantic West Village room with an Italian wine list to match.