ViceVersa

Good ravioli!

by BMcre90 at Citysearch

The foods, prices and service are very good. This is the restaurant that I always go whenever I crave for ravioli. They have the best ravioli in NYC!

great food

by mazzal at Citysearch

The food was very good. It was a wonderful city restaurant with a fine set up. The waitress was top notch and the staff was very cordial.

Great Food, Great Service

by Jeff D at Citysearch

My wife and I are both from the NYC area...we now live near Houston TX but come to NY every year on vacation. We stay near Times Sqaure and have often gone to the Bronx (Mario's) to satisfy our Italian craving. Patsy's is our new place. The sauce is great ( the owner came to our table and gave my wife a jar of the sauce...she now buys it at a supermarket in Texas) and the food is incredible. This is Southern Italian food at it's best. With so many bad choices near Times Sqaure or in Little Italy just head to Patsy's and see what NYC Italian food was like a few decades ago.

• Pros: Food, Service, Close to Times Square
• Cons: none

Greasy hands indeed.

by theoracle72 at Citysearch

It saddens me that others can be saddened by a bad experience at a restaurant, but even more so that they would consider a $150 dinner for two to be fine dining.

However, my wife and I have had many a great experience at Vice Versa. I?ve always found the service to be respectful and cordial and the food to be what is expected of a meal in its price range.

Notwithstanding the possibility that a new waiter might be a little rough around the edges, I think it is safe to say that others can expect a positive dining experience there if they?re simply looking for a casual night on the town.

The Fall From Grace

by matasmit at Citysearch

Folks, I never write reviews...because I always search for the best aspect of any dining experience, and generally dwell on that little gem as I grab my coat, walk or cab home half drunk, and relate the somewhat sanitized version of said experience over the ensuing days and weeks, whenever it might come up. That I am writing my first official restaurant review for public consideration should thus add some measure of validity to these observations.

I will never again dine at Vice Versa - which saddens me because I fear I shall never duplicate the truly novel experience of "fine dining" in Hell's Kitchen. Flowery prose aside, and the disparity between my own expectations (based on 6 previous positive Vice Versa experiences) and this particular marathon of disappointment notwithstanding, let me simply enumerate the reasons that this dinner for 2 was NOT worth the $150 that changed greasy hands:

1. Frisee Salad was tossed in VINEGAR, not vinegrette. Beets were ornamental at best. Mandarin oranges were completely out of place, and walnuts were like rock candy.

2. Duck breast was requested at medium, and served well-done and LUKEWARM.

3. Wine glasses stood empty for 15 minutes, and were only filled upon my direct request of the waiter.

4. Plates sat obviously ready for clearing for 15 minutes before the waiter inquired if we were finished.

5. Waiter did not crumb the table.

6. Dessert menu was soiled with some kind of syrup.

7. Coffee was served without a sugar/sweetener caddy

8. Waiter darted to retrieve the finished credit slip within seconds of my final pen stroke (no table turning here or imminent shift turnover - this was 9:30pm!)

If we can tolerate tunnel traffic, bumbling tourists, skyrocketing rents, B&T weekenders, the Great Yum Yum Bangkok Invasion, and the endless round-the-clock jackhammers of progress, then isn't it time Hell's Kitchen raised the bar of cuisine just on a tad? Meanitme, I'll be dining downtown.

• Pros: Mediocre wines by the glass
• Cons: Everything else