With new restaurants popping up all over this neighborhood (Beco, Sel de Mer, the Mexican place, Motorino), it's important to balance out the nights with the old classics. So we walked in here - Taylor's lived within two blocks for ten years - for a long overdue sampling and were greeted by what were clearly career waiters. Seated promptly. Menus dropped. Water filled. We quickly put in an order of stuffed mushrooms.
Five mushroom caps floated in sweet tomato sauce. The 'shrooms were filled with garlic and herbs. We used our bread to sop up the extra sauce. Blistery hot peppers came to the table gratis along side the bread - this made for a perfect bite between bites of the mushrooms.
We both went for pasta as our entrée. I ordered the shrimp fra diavalo and chose rigatoni as its base. Taylor had the baked ziti - an item off the homemade column.
My rigotoni was doused in spicy sweet sauce. It came with not only colossal shrimp but with clams as well. I took half of it home and the following evening, it was just as satisfying. Taylor's dish was a moutain of cheese.
The ziti came out in a piping hot ceramic dish. Fresh mozzarella melted over top. The interior was a cheesy, ziti explosion. He, too, took half home. We couldn't opt out of dessert though and so chose a simple canoli.
The canoli cream came flecked with chocolate chips - my favorite. And the tube was fresh filled. I cannot believe that we waited so long to try Frost. It's a diamond in the rough!
Your review is killing me.I grew up in williamsburg in the 50's-60's and my last visit to frost was around 1972.The shrimp fra diavolo was my favorite and the picture if it looks like it did way back when,The baked clams were always ordered a little heavy on the garlic but out of this world with plenty of juices to sop up with your bread.One of these days I'll get back with my family,children and grandchildren and let them taste old school Italian food.
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