Pranzi Ristorante & Enoteca, White Plains

Executive Chef Carmine Paglia’s culinary techniques are hard to emulate, but they are no secret. Visitors can glimpse Chef Paglia and her culinary team at work in Pranzi Ristorante & Enoteca’s partially open kitchen as they craft dishes such as delicious gnocchi or cozze posillipo with mussels in a white-wine tomato broth. Chef Paglia came to the Italian kitchen after a stint at Polpo in Greenwich, Connecticut; now he caters to Pranzi Ristorante & Enoteca patrons by preparing oven-baked pizzas with toppings such as fresh ricotta cheese or baby clams, drizzled organic salmon in limoncello sauce, and grilled prime-shell steak.