Enjoy a mouth-watering lunch for two at ESCA, a southern Italian trattoria devoted to celebrating the fruits of the sea. Italian for "bait," ESCA is the stuff of temptation and enticement. 

Created by James Beard award-winning chef Dave Pasternack, Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich in October 2000, ESCA is revered for its less-is-more approach, for its elegant simplicity. In his 3-star New York Times canonization of ESCA as the ultimate Italian seafood destination in New York, Frank Bruni coined Dave as "an honest-to-God fisherman, in love with the ocean, and ESCA is his ongoing ode to it."