If you haven’t eaten Rubirosa’s Tie Dye™ pizza yet, you’ve surely seen it before. The vodka and red sauce-speckled pie is swirled with pesto tableside, as if someone who worked there thought, “Why bother making a red sauce pie, a pesto pie, and a vodka pie separately when you could just put them all together?” It works, deliciously. But if you’re coming to this Nolita institution just for that pie, you’re missing out. Rubirosa’s little secret is that the other food is just as good—if not better. The place is so pizza restaurant-coded that you might not even know they make pasta, but they do, and it’s pretty great. Rubirosa’s velvety carbonara is finished with fat chunks of pancetta, and the expertly al dente cavatelli plays well with red pepper flake-flecked broccoli rabe and big knobs of sausage. Then there are the overlooked pizzas, like the satisfyingly simple vodka pie, or the Rubirosa Supreme, covered in tiny meatballs, like a meat lover’s pie for downtown Manhattan meat lovers with daintier appetites. With cracker-like crusts that can handle a whole lot of sauce, those pies actually have Staten Island roots: The owners are descendants of the Joe & Pat’s family, which remains the gold standard for this style of pizza. Rubirosa is much more of a Nolita scene, full of East Village pre-games, and perpetually packed since 2009. But even if the shelves are now lined with their own sauce brand, and that pie is in fact trademarked, the place still feels like a rowdy pizza parlor that got a little dressy—but only just a little. It’s fun and casual enough for dinner before a night out, charming enough to bring your parents, and New Yorky enough to impress your visitors (including the gluten-free ones—they have a whole menu). Unsurprisingly, it’s a tough reservation, but you can usually get a table when they release them a week out. Or just plan to walk in, potentially with a wait. Once you get a spot, start with a glass of $15 house wine—the Rubirosa branded one, of course—and then yes, get the Tie Dye pizza. Just don’t ever stop there.