Antica Pesa--Brooklyn

 (347) 763-2635

At long last the trend that Reynard's created has begun to bear fruit. Antica Pesa is the first in a trend of what I predict to be many well conceived fine dining establishments in Williamsburg.  The neighborhood has grown up, be it from pricing bringing in an older crowd, or an older crowd bringing pricing.  Whatever the case may be, something that has matching flatware and cloth napkins was due and Antica Pesa delivers superbly  The dining room is beautiful, with low hanging globes over dinner tables that capture sound, a fire place, and Italian men walking around with their shirts un buttoned, putting their hands on the back of your chair suggesting, hinting, alluding to the fact that in some other universe you could be the desire of such a man...ehem.

Put your dick back in your pants iconman, how was the food?  In a word fantastic. Granted the menu never seems to vary, but there is some crowd pleasing items for all.  I'd stay away from the tour of Tuscany thing, and the fried cheese and prosciutto might be too much of a good thing to start with on your own.  And unlike Aurora, the reigning high end Italian in the neighborhood, the waiters here aren't slack-jawed yokels.  No, the waiters here own the place, as well as a well known sister restaurant in Rome.  How's that bitches, Brooklyn is importing directly from the motherland.