Best Place For a the-Hell-With-It Carbohydrate Binge

It's one thing to fall off the wagon while in recovery, but quite another to slide off the gravy train while following one of those carbohydrate-free diet plans. After all, if nature had meant for men and women to live on meat and cheese alone, a chef like Mike Saluzzi would never have been born. He wouldn't be creating magnificent pasta dishes such as Fettuccine Cleopatra, a bowl of quivering linguini dressed up in a pale-pink sauce fragrant with cognac, heaped with grilled shrimp and puffy sea scallops, spotted with red caviar and decorated with dewy rose petals. New York-born Saluzzi pays tribute to the borough of Brooklyn's Italian population by giving the name to a distinctive slab of lasagna stuffed with cheese, Italian sausage and baby meatballs. Each piece weighs no less than a pound. At Altizio's, dieting seems like such a waste of time. Thin is only a state of mind.