u/Puzzleheaded_Wolf_40

Just curious if anyone knows of any restaurants in the area that have live jazz on weekends? Or venues in general?

Nostalgia inquiry/post. I went to Delta middle school back in the early 2000s and remember for lunch going to a small hole in the wall takeaway food shop called La Picola Cucina. There wasn't anywhere to sit (maybe like 1-2 tables max) it was a place you grabbed food to go. It kind of had a similar look/vibe to Murray's Sturgeon shop but on 106th and broadway.

You could buy GIANT garlic knots for 25 cents and it had all sorts of italian pasta salads and amazing italian cold cuts.

Not sure why it closed down and I do recall another restaurant of the same name opening up on Amsterdam nearby on the upper west side but not sure if it was owned by the same people or had the same type of food. I see there are restaurants in the city of the same name on Spring Street and the upper east side but are they the same owners? Their (106th broadway piccola cucina) pasta salads and sandwiches etc were out of this world, wondering what happened to the owners/chefs.

Are there any places in the city that have that kind of small town italian American food vibe?