Lupetto

In the lavish dining room at Lupetto, coworkers crowd into velvet banquettes to form unbreakable bonds over a steady stream of red wine and red meat. Everybody gets their own salad, everybody gets their own main, and at least one person drinks one too many glasses of Pinot. Like its sister restaurant, La Pecora Bianca, Lupetto is a highly unobjectionable place, and also highly accommodating. The first three pastas can be made gluten-free, dietary restrictions are catered to, and the wood-fired Italian steakhouse also has chicken and fish “because we have to," a server told us. If you’re in Nomad with a particularly picky group, the pastas and Neapolitan pizzas here are a solid choice. There’s also a negroni bar opening downstairs soon, called Sotto.

photo credit: Nicole Franzen

photo credit: Nicole Franzen

photo credit: Nicole Franzen