StreetLevel: Sotto Voce Building Mini-Empire on 5th Ave.
The owners of the 7th Avenue’s Sotto Voce are bringing versions of their popular Italian formula to two new locations on 5th Avenue. Within the next month they’re going to open a bistro called Aperitivo on the corner of 1st street (shown above left). One of Sotto’s managers says Aperitivo is going to be open…
The owners of the 7th Avenue’s Sotto Voce are bringing versions of their popular Italian formula to two new locations on 5th Avenue. Within the next month they’re going to open a bistro called Aperitivo on the corner of 1st street (shown above left). One of Sotto’s managers says Aperitivo is going to be open from early morning to late at night and have classic bistro trappings like a marble bar. A block and a half away, meanwhile, Sotto’s owners are opening a much larger “family-style” restaurant called Alta Voce (pictured to the right above). The eatery, on 5th Ave. between 2nd and 3rd streets, will sprawl over two levels and include a backyard garden and a wine cellar. Alta Voce will specialize in dishes like pasta for three or four, according to the Sotto manager, and it’s scheduled to be in business in June. Salute! GMAP GMAP
tWhat, what is a PIMPI? Your public-school education is showing yet again.
yep Sotto Voce is decidedly mediocre…
My favorite Italian restuarant in all of Brooklyn. Love the fresh fettucini with mushrooms and chicken. Who beats’em? I wanna know. Some place in Bensonhurst?
I agree Smith is nice, but I don’t agree it’s better. Most of the nicer places seemed to have opened up second shops on 5th…and 5th spans many, many more blocks than Smith with the more upscale stuff in the north and center and then the off the beaten path stuff farther down 5th into the teens.
You can walk along 5th every weekend and explore something new every time.
For me, a walk down Smith and I’ve seen it all in 2 hours.
Smith St. turned around faster. It used to be even worse than 5th, and now its tied or better.
That actually is a good word for it, 3:50. Amazing. For anyone who has lived here for a while, you will remember that as recently as 2000 or 1999, 5th Avenue was nothing short of seedy. Bodegas or abandonded buildings dominated the strip. (If we go back to 1990 or 1995, 5th was a HELLHOLE!)
I can’t think of many other corridors in NY or elsewhere that have had such a significant transformation in such a short period of time.
Someone should write a story about it. It is quite amazing to me.
5TH is my favorite place to shop/dine/drink in all of Brooklyn.
Haven’t been to the one on 7th in months. It wasn’t awful though, just kind of meh. Maybe these two will have different and possibly improved menus. Damn, 5th Ave is amazing.
the spot on 5th and 1st looks nice.
really nice marble details from what i saw.
Never said their business was lousy, only their food.