Category: New York Restaurants by Area
New York City Restaurants by Neighborhood
-
200 Schemerhorn Street in downtown Brooklyn 718/243.0050 $70 each ($95 starting November 2009), BYOB, without tip ♥ ♥ ♥ The Daily News just crowned the area around 200 Schemerhorn “Downtown Brooklyn’s hot pocket”. A friend lives upstairs and got incredibly lucky with one of the market-rate rentals before the neighborhood exploded. This means he’s also…
-
348 West 145th Street between Edgecombe and St. Nicholas Avenues 212/491.5859 $50 for three, with 3 juices, without tip half a ♥ I consider myself an omnivore and don’t turn my back on vegetarian dishes even though my first choice will always be meat or seafood. Once in a while, I crave all vegetables to…
-
10 Pell Street between Bowery and Doyers 212/233.3888 $30 for two, without drinks, with tip ♥ ♥ My craving for spicy Sichuan food still hasn’t abated. In less than a week, I’ve traveled to Flushing, Queens for Spicy & Tasty and met another friend in midtown to eat at Szechuan Gourmet. It’s so hot in…
-
10 East 60th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues 212/957.5550 $72 each for a group of five, with tip ♥ ♥ I’ve been hearing about Rouge Tomate here and there so I wasn’t surprised when my girlfriends and I ended up there for dinner. The space is massive and perfect for big groups. It’s the…
-
132 West 58th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues 212/957.5550 $120 for two, with drinks, without tip ♥ ♥ ♥ I finished dinner at Seasonal with a smile on my face. Really. I had heard about their wine list and I wanted to check it out to see wine labels I’ve never heard of. I…
-
308 West 58th Street off Columbus Circle 212/397.0404 $170 for two, with three beers, with tip ♥ ♥ I was so glad to hear when Blue Ribbon opened their new space in the upper west side. I don’t have to go to the east side for sushi! I don’t have to go downtown for Blue…
-
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…
-
200 Ninth Avenue between 22nd and 23rd Streets 212/633.8033‎ $104 each for a group of 11, with several bottles of wine ♥ ♥ From Klee’s Web site, I imagined a Meatpacking District type of place where we would be screaming at each other so that we can have a conversation. It’s probably the first restaurant…
-
264 Elizabeth Street between Houston and Prince 212/966.9640 about $40 for one, with a drink, with tip ♥ The night that Jo’s officially opened, I walked by to check out how the old Tasting Room space had transformed. It was before 8pm and it wasn’t crowded, so I decided to stay and sit at the…
-
128 East 7th Street between First and Avenue A 212/473.0220 $40 each for two, with drinks, without tip ♥ ♥ I’m always excited to find another Greek restaurant in the city. I was even more thrilled to try Pylos because I walked by its glass wall one night and took a note of it as…
-
210 East 3rd Street between Avenue B and C 212/614.3080 $158 for 4, with drinks, with tip ♥ ♥ One of my favorite things about eating with friends? Sharing food. One of my least? Wasting food. So I was taken aback when I read the footnote on the Cafe Cortadito menu that a fee would…
-
9 Jones Street between West 4th and Bleecker Streets 212/929.6868 $147 for three, with a bottle of wine, without tip ♥ ♥ I’ve watched Top Chef enough to know that the judges sometimes can’t make up their minds between “cooking outside the box” and “sticking with what you know”. You had Carla who finally stuck…