New York's secret restaurant gardens

Gnocco

There's Italian-American and then there's Italian-Italian food, which can be perfectly sopped up while sitting underneath the ivy (and the stars) in Gnocco's back garden space. Start with baked artichoke hearts stuffed with goat cheese, or paper-thin octopus carpaccio among the antipasto, then move on to homemade pastas, thin-crust pizzas topped with fresh mozzarella, or entree selections of beef, pork, lamb, fish and Cornish hens. Nobody said the choosing would be easy.

Gnocco
337 E. 10th St.
Between Avenues A and B
212-677-1913