One might think the NoLita/Little Italy neighborhood of downtown Manhattan would be teeming with restaurants, but there are much fewer dining options that you’d imagine in a neighborhood that has retail and shopping covered. So in early 2016, when chef Ryan Hardy and the Delicious Hospitality Group, who also run Charlie Bird on King Street, opened Pasquale Jones, a wood-fired Italian restaurant on the corner of Mulberry and Kenmare, it was pretty much an instant hit.