Briciola

Briciola is owned by the same people behind Aria and Cotenna, and they all feel pretty much like the same nice-but-normal Italian wine bar. Briciola is pretty small, and usually crowded with people on dates or having obligatory catch-up drinks. They have a huge list of inexpensive pastas and small plates, as well as a weekday lunch special that involves a glass of house wine and a plate of pasta, in case you work at the kind of place where sobriety is somewhat optional on a Friday afternoon.