The West Village’s culinary power couple is heading uptown. Rita Sodi and Jody Williams, the James Beard Award-winning duo behind Via Carota , I Sodi and Buvette , have been tapped to overhaul the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s entire restaurant program.

The pair, who the once dubbed “one of the great partnerships of the New York restaurant scene ,” are known for creating some of the city’s most consistently excellent dining rooms, where a perfect Negroni and a plate of lasagna feel like religion. Now, they’ll bring that same unfussy sophistication to one of New York’s grandest cultural institutions.

Their collaboration with the Met will unfold over the next two years, beginning with the renovation and activation of the museum’s 83rd Street and Fif

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