Half-Price Wine, Truffle Pizza Heat Up Monday Mobs at Accademia

People were stacked three deep at the bar and every table was taken. This wasn’t your typically slow Monday night, given the raucous vibe at Accademia Di Vino as patrons crunched thin-crusted pizza with truffle pate and addictive fritters stuffed with Parma’s favorite exports, prosciutto and cheese.

Even more surprising, the Upper West Siders, happily a frugal crowd, quaffed $100 wines that were neither French nor smuggled in from someone’s secret stash of an unknown Sonoma winery. They were from Italy.