Orso is Joe Allen's Italian sibling next door — a vaulted, photograph-lined dining room that's been the Theater District's grown-up choice since 1983. It's where you take someone before a show when you want real cooking rather than a pre-theater assembly line.
Thin-crust pizzas, handmade pastas, and Tuscan mains anchor a menu that changes daily, served by a staff fluent in the geometry of an 8 o'clock curtain. The late seating is its own scene: after the theaters empty, the room fills with actors ordering pasta, sometimes still in stage makeup. Reservations are wise on any night with a full Broadway schedule.
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