That dollar amount is, incidentally, exactly what a campaign can spend without providing a receipt to the Federal Election Commission.
They came quickly. The salad, conveniently split into three separate portions for me and my two companions, won solid remarks from the table. The turgid, fried squash blossom, overfull with cheese, was slightly less celebrated, but eaten readily. “This is basically a mozzarella stick,” one said. I was pleasantly surprised. Two separate tables sang happy birthday. A clubby remix of Oasis’s Wonderwall thumped through the speakers.
Santos is not alone in his love of Il Bacco. Plenty of New York Republicans, winners and losers alike, have visited the restaurant in recent years. The restaurant’s Instagram page features photos of Rudy Giuliani alongside the restaurant’s owner, Oppedisano, and his daughter Tina. Andrew Giuliani, Rudy’s son who lost the most recent Republican primary for governor, is featured as well. The Republican city councilwoman Vicki Paladino has visited.
After our appetizers, we put in for three pasta dishes—a puttanesca, a gnocchi, and a tagliolini. I asked the fellow diners at the adjacent tables, both of whom claimed to be regulars, if they had ever seen Santos. Neither had, but both believed he did indeed come often. “It’s a nice place,” both said.We made quick work of the pesto gnocchi and the tagliolini with mushroom and mozzarella; the puttanesca was less beloved. I asked my two dinner partners to rate their experience.
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