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Long Island restaurants serving stellar red sauce

Originally published: January 23, 2013 2:10 PM
Updated: January 24, 2013 4:38 PM
By PETER M. GIANOTTI  peter.gianotti@newsday.com

Photo credit: Agaton Strom | Cavatelli bolognese is served at Ciao Bella restaurant in Hewlett. (March 9, 2012)

So many tomatoes, so little sauce. First-class sauce, gravy or ragu, that is. Here are four restaurants that put the "oro" in pomodoro.

CIAO BELLA!, Hewlett

Basic and bountiful: pasta alla chitarra in tomato-basil sauce at this modest, local hangout. Have it as a primi in advance of the kitchen's outstanding lemon chicken.

CASA RUSTICA, Smithtown

Hard choice between the spaghetti...