Locanda Verde: The Best Breakfast in New York?  "Who knew that
an Italian restaurant in Tribeca would produce New York's best
breakfast?"   All photographs by NIck Solares unless otherwise
noted.  Locanda Verde  Service: Friendly and attitude-free
Setting: Hotel restaurant that doesn't feel like one Compare It
To: Trestle on Tenth, Norma's, Sarabeth's Must-Haves: Any of the
pastries and muffins, sheep's milk ricotta, cotechino hash,
toasted hazelnut French Toast, crispy garlic potatoes Cost: $6
to $14 Grade: A  The food world is a-Twitter-ing and
a-chattering about Locanda Verde, and why not? Robert DeNiro's
involved; it's succeeding a highly visible failure, Ago;
critics' and eaters' fave Andrew Carmellini is the chef; and
perhaps just as exciting for me, former Craft pastry chef Karen
DeMasco is coming off a two-year absence from the New York
restaurant scene and returning to the fray, and the ovens, at
Locanda Verde.  So it wasn't exactly a complete surprise when I
had an incredible dinner the first night