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All bets are off when you offer a $17 all-you-can-drink champagne brunch, but hey—when you’re trying to break into the increasingly saturated resto-polis known as the Lower East Side, you can’t blame a restaurant for trying. Brunch boozies notwithstanding, this deconstructed Italian newcomer, with its wood beams and exposed-bulb fixtures, offers a reliably savory menu filled with dishes like lamb meatballs and pantacce with sausage, fennel and grape tomatoes. The real intrigue, however, lies in subversive global touches: Ingredients like lemongrass, peanut sauce and chorizo make cameos in raviolis and tartares, and the restaurant winks at Spain with a pollo arrosto dish of crispy chicken breast with black beans, spinach and mushrooms. 

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