Overview

Lusardi's is an Upper East Side institution that serves Italian food to an affluent but casual crowd. Owners Luigi and Mauro Lusardi, ensure an easy-going graciousness in the dining room. Antipasti include grilled vegetable and seafood. Several interesting pasta dishes and a Risotto Primavera are great as a second or third course, and entrees include Salmon in a Lemon, Wine and Garlic sauce, Pollo al Mattone which is a grilled cornish hen and Vitello Martini which is veal sauteed with wine and lemon and topped with Parmesan cheese.