Category: Union Square + Murray Hill
Reviews of Union Square + Murray Hill + Gramercy Park Restaurants
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8 West 18th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues $58 each for 2 people, no drinks, with tip 212.255/0018 ♥ ♥ Ootoya may be a restaurant chain, but the newly opened New York City branch looks anything but. Tastiest: 1. Grilled beef tongue – will be the most buttery thing you’ll ever put in your…
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236 Fifth Avenue between 27th and 28th Streets 212/683.2929 around $125 for 4, with drinks, with tip ♥ ♥ After thirteen days eating fresh seafood and vegetables in Dominica for both lunch and dinner, all I wanted to eat upon returning to New York was a bloody steak. It was godsend that Miriam was still…
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83 Lexington Avenue between 26th and 27th Streets 212/679.7993‎ $7 for one dish ♥ ♥ Let’s go there, I said as I pulled the Dr. towards the street crossing. Among the many restaurants in Curry Hill, the South Asian restaurant row in the Gramercy Park area, Kasturi is the only one without the frills. No…
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243 East 14th Street between Third and Second Avenues 212/253.7670 $222 for four, with drinks, with tip ♥ Update, 2009: My Deathwatch prediction came true after only a month. Oy, I’m putting Mr. Jones Yakitori on a Deathwatch. I don’t know why anyone would open a yakitori restaurant a few blocks away from St. Marks…
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116 East 16th Street between Irving Place and Union Square East 212/254.1600‎ $129 for three, with beers, with tip ♥ Wow, they made a big deal about the burgers here. Don’t get me wrong: they were satisfying, but nothing more incredible than what other places in the city has to offer. It also didn’t make…
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12 East 22nd Street 212/228.7557 $90 for two, with 2 glasses of wine, with tip ♥ ♥ ♥ We’ve driven by Almoncello on Montauk Highway only to stop at Townline BBQ for lunch instead. This summer I told myself, okay, I’ll definitely eat there next year. But now that their Manhattan branch has opened, I…
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81 Lexington Avenue corner of 26th Street 212/684.7755 about $45, with one drink, with tip ♥ The Dr. remembered a suggestion he received from one of his co-workers for some dosas in Murray Hill but the name escaped him; all he knew was that it was long and unpronounceable. Luckily we caught a glimpse of…
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225 Park Avenue South at 18th Street 212/533.2500 about $40 each for four, with a pitcher of beer, with tip ♥ ♥ Sorry, we’re out of the pork spare ribs. A long pause from our table and then, what do you mean you’re out of the pork spare ribs? Well, you can try the Memphis-style…
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37 East 28th Street between Park and Madison Avenues 212/213.2328 $180 for five people, with drinks and a lot of comps, with tip ♥ ♥ I can’t say that I remember much of our night in Pamplona, but when you dine with four other women, you’d bill forgetfulness as a good thing, too. I was…
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52 Irving Place corner of 17th Street 212/253.2773 $120 for two, with two drinks, with tip ♥ ♥ Mario Batali took a lit bit of convincing to let Chef Andy Nusser open up a Spanish tapas bar under his name, but as told in Heat, a tasting knocked their socks off. Two years after they…
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120 Lexington Avenue corner of 28th Street 212/532.3663 $65 for two, without drinks, with tip ♥ Mirch is loosely translated as spicy in Hindi and the combination of Sichuan and Cantonese cuisines happily bring out the intense flavor of Indian cooking. The positive is that the dishes are lighter than what I am used to…
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37 East 28th Street between Park and Madison Avenues 212/213.2328 about $150 for two, with two drinks, without tip ♥ ♥ Update, 2007: Renovated as Pamplona Ureña is the latest restaurant to open in Murray Hill from one of David Bouley’s apprentice and ex-executive chef of Blue Hill, Alex Ureña. The restaurant has been dubbed…