Bklink: Age of Sotto Voce Empire

Seventh Avenue's Sotte Voce is opening not one, but two, new spinoffs on Fifth Avenue in coming months, per our friends at Brownstoner. "Within the next month they're going to open a bistro called Aperitivo on the corner of 1st street...One of Sotto's managers says Aperitivo is going to be open from early morning to late at night and have classic bistro trappings like a marble bar. A block and a half away, meanwhile, Sotto's owners are opening a much larger 'family-style' restaurant called Alta Voce." If it's anymore "family-style" than Sotto Voce, where the little ones can sometimes engage in ziti tossing contests, we'll be impressed.--Brownstoner