"At old-school Italian restaurants across the city, free bread is a right, and baked clams are law. But Emilio’s Ballato, a celebrity-strewn hotspot in Nolita, the free bread takes everything a notch up. It’s focaccia, with a sweet, brick-red tomato sauce baked into it." - bryan kim, neha talreja, sonal shah, willa moore, will hartman