A linebacker for the Green Bay Packers understood exactly why we love the enduring, family-run Italian restaurant. The October 1974 issue of Esquire magazine included a feature on where N.F.L. players liked to eat, in which that linebacker, Jim Carter, gave this description of a Chicago favorite: "Food keeps coming, and they're insulted if you don't eat everything — or spend less than three hours on a meal."

Happily, four decades later, restaurants like that still exist in Westchester County, not as dusty relics, but as welcoming redoubts where the table is yours for as long as you want, portions are plentiful and having a good time is pretty much a sure thing. Here are three of the best.

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