Etrusca (CLOSED)

Yes, it’s in a hotel. But cast your prejudices aside and prepare for an excellent meal. Black Angus porterhouse, inches high and as big as a platter, tastes of a wood fire and is accompanied by broccoli rabe and garlic-roasted potatoes. Pezze della nonna, broad sheets of house-made spinach pasta wrapped around prosciutto-flecked ricotta and mozzarella and covered by a creamy tomato sauce, is served in three pieces—just one of which would be supremely satisfying. The three-course early-bird special ($39) makes Etrusca a good spot for City Center and Manhattan Theatre Club subscribers to remember.