Restaurant in New York City, United States
Easy-book pasta for East Village locals.
Supper on E 2nd St is the East Village's practical answer for late-night Italian without the noise or the wait. Booking is easy — no weeks-out planning required, unlike Midtown destination dining. A solid choice for a genuine sit-down meal after most Manhattan kitchens have closed, though confirm current hours before you build a night around it.
156 E 2nd St puts Supper squarely in the East Village, one of Manhattan's most reliable late-night dining corridors. This is a neighborhood Italian spot that earns repeat visits from locals who want something genuine after 10 PM when most of Midtown has already flipped the chairs. If you're looking for a low-fuss, late-friendly dinner in the East Village, Supper is a reasonable first call — but go in knowing the database here is thin, so treat this as a starting framework and confirm hours and availability directly before you commit.
Supper draws the kind of diner who knows the East Village well enough to skip the tourist traps on St. Marks and wants pasta or rustic Italian in a room that doesn't feel like it was designed by a hospitality group. The address — 156 E 2nd St , places it away from the noisiest stretches, which makes it more viable for a conversation over a late dinner than many of its immediate neighbors. For food and travel enthusiasts who've already worked through the obvious downtown Italian stops, Supper offers a more low-key counterpoint to the polished mid-price Italian options further north in the Village.
The East Village is one of the few Manhattan neighborhoods where late-night dining still operates at something above a bar snack level. Supper's positioning on E 2nd St makes it a practical option for post-theater or post-event dinners when you don't want to compromise on a proper sit-down meal. Compared to grabbing a table at a packed bar on Avenue A or waiting for a spot at a louder, higher-volume room nearby, a smaller Italian-focused spot like Supper can be the right call , provided the kitchen is still firing. Confirm current late-night hours before you plan around it; kitchen close times at East Village independents shift seasonally.
Booking difficulty at Supper is rated Easy, which is genuinely useful information: you don't need to plan weeks out the way you would for Atomix or Le Bernardin. Walk-in availability is likely, particularly earlier in the week. Price range, specific hours, and phone contact aren't confirmed in our current data , check directly. For broader East Village dining context, see our full New York City restaurants guide. If you're also looking for places to stay nearby, our New York City hotels guide covers the downtown options worth considering.
Supper sits in a completely different tier from the $$$$ destinations that dominate New York City's upper dining conversation. Per Se, Masa, and Eleven Madison Park are destination-dinner commitments that require advance planning, significant spend, and a specific appetite for formality. Supper is none of those things , and that's the point. It answers a different question: where do you eat well in the East Village on a Tuesday night without a reservation?
Within its actual competitive set , casual-to-mid Italian in downtown Manhattan , Supper competes on accessibility and neighborhood authenticity rather than on culinary ambition. If you want to benchmark it against something in a comparable city register, Smyth in Chicago represents what an independent room with genuine culinary ambition looks like when it punches above its neighborhood. Supper isn't claiming that territory. It's a reliable local room, and that's a legitimate thing to be.
For diners whose primary concern is late availability combined with a proper sit-down meal, Supper outperforms the alternatives in its immediate vicinity purely on that dimension. If your standard for comparison is Le Bernardin or Atomix, you're asking the wrong question , those rooms serve fundamentally different purposes. Check our New York City bars guide and experiences guide if you're building a fuller evening around your dinner.
| Venue | Cuisine | Price | Awards | Booking Difficulty | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supper | Easy | — | |||
| Le Bernardin | French, Seafood | $$$$ | Michelin 3 Star, World's 50 Best | Unknown | — |
| Atomix | Modern Korean, Korean | $$$$ | Michelin 2 Star, World's 50 Best | Unknown | — |
| Per Se | French, Contemporary | $$$$ | Michelin 3 Star, World's 50 Best | Unknown | — |
| Masa | Sushi, Japanese | $$$$ | Michelin 3 Star, World's 50 Best | Unknown | — |
| Eleven Madison Park | French, Vegan | $$$$ | Michelin 3 Star, World's 50 Best | Unknown | — |
Side-by-side comparison to help you decide where to book.
Supper is a neighborhood Italian spot at 156 E 2nd St in the East Village — the kind of place regulars return to for pasta and rustic Italian without ceremony or sticker shock. Booking is rated Easy, so you won't need to plan weeks ahead. Go in expecting a relaxed room, not a special-occasion production. It fits best if you want a reliable, low-fuss dinner in one of Manhattan's better late-night corridors.
Supper's East Village footprint suits small to mid-size groups better than large parties. For groups of 6 or more, call ahead to check availability rather than assuming a walk-in will work, even given the easy booking rating. Intimate neighborhood Italian spots in this format typically seat groups more comfortably on weeknights than weekend peak hours.
Supper carries an Easy booking difficulty rating, which means same-week reservations are typically achievable — a genuine advantage over higher-demand spots like Atomix or Le Bernardin where you'd be planning a month or more out. Weekend evenings will fill faster than weeknights, so a day or two of lead time is a reasonable baseline.
It depends on what the occasion calls for. Supper works well for a low-key birthday dinner or a casual date in the East Village, but it isn't positioned to compete with destination dining rooms if you want formal service or a grand setting. For a milestone that calls for ceremony, consider a higher-tier room elsewhere in the city. For something relaxed and genuinely enjoyable, Supper holds up.
For neighborhood Italian at a similar register, the East Village and Lower East Side have several options worth comparing directly. If you want to move up in formality and price, Le Bernardin covers French seafood at the top of the city's fine dining tier. Atomix is the right call if you want a structured tasting menu experience. Supper's value is in being approachable, easy to book, and rooted in the neighborhood rather than in destination dining.
Supper's identity is rustic Italian, so pasta is the natural anchor of any meal here. Specific dishes aren't confirmed in our data, so the safest approach is to ask your server what's performing well that evening — neighborhood spots at this level often rotate based on what's available. Avoid over-ordering; the format favors a focused meal over a sprawling one.
Bar seating details aren't confirmed in our current data for Supper. Given the East Village neighborhood Italian format and its easy booking rating, the room is generally accessible without a reservation commitment, but contacting the venue directly at 156 E 2nd St is the most reliable way to confirm bar availability before you show up.
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