Some nights, New York seems like one giant Italian restaurant, with an infinite strand of pasta connecting everything and everybody. It's hard to get that vision out of your head if you spend a night at the just-opening Mamma Guidara's, the red sauce spot that's taking over every Sunday evening at the Nomad Bar in the Gramercy Park neighborhood starting Oct. 2.

When you're sitting in the dark wood-and-gold-walled, bi-level hotspot, digging into a massive plate of chicken parm while Sinatra, Billy Joel, and the Godfather theme play in the background, you might feel like you've been transported to the set of Goodfellas, and that's Ray Liotta at the next table.

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