<p>Visiting DD at Columbia for a long weekend of Broadway and food and would love suggestions for great NY restaurants. All types of food and price ranges of interest.</p>
<p>Coffee shop: Cosmos at 58th(?) & Broadway. What can I say…it was an “authentic” place to grab breakfast.</p>
<p>Jeez, I’m trying to remember the great places we were taken to lunch, one near Lincoln Center (Cafe des Artistes?) and the other with this spectacular seafood buffet that was, I think, on Broadway about four-five blocks north of Columbus Circle.</p>
<p>Raw bar at Grand Central. They have all sorts of clams, oysters, and mussels I have never heard of and I liked all of them. Plus I like walking around here. It sure ain’t Texas. Routinely we eat ethnic to stay within budget and I like to eat at Puglia’s for a family style meal in Little Italy. And just walking Chinatown for lunch gives you wonderful cheap choices, even a fresh lobster lunch was very reasonable. For steak there is that great place right across the bridge in Brooklyn that gives you that great Manhattan skyline. Pricey but maybe worth the splurge. David something? It was only 2 years ago, you’d think I could remember. NYC has great food to meet any budget.</p>
<p>Bobby Van’s steakhouse has the greatest steaks ive ever tasted.</p>
<p>Kirmum, I really don’t know too much but here are a few suggestions, some from personal experience and others from friends who live there:</p>
<p>Pastis in the meatpackers district–hard to get reservations, but great food and I guess one of the hot places to be.</p>
<p>(people say…)–Jekyll and Hyde (near NYU); Ollie’s Noodle House-several locations including on Broadway.</p>
<p>Serendipity (near Bloomingdale’s on 39th)–totally quirky. My girls liked it better than I did. </p>
<p>And, totally silly: I cannot go to NYC and skip the cheesecake at Cafe Metro --I mean I just get a slice in a plastic container and take it back to my hotel room and devour every morsel. I think it is just generic NY cheesecake, but oh my goodness is it good. <a href=“http://www.cm370lex.geomerx.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=storepage&customPageID=14[/url]”>http://www.cm370lex.geomerx.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=storepage&customPageID=14</a></p>
<p>Patsy’s Pizza–in Brooklyn at end of Brooklyn Bridge. There is also one across the street from Serendipity. </p>
<p>Panini just about anywhere…</p>
<p>Patient, just a few corrections. Jekyll & Hyde the Restuarant is on 57th near
Central Park and is no where near NYU. It is a theme restuarant. We went a few years ago when we were trying to keep a nine year-old occupied. The wait is long and the food is not at all good though it did entertain a nine-year old. Bloomingdales is between 59th and 60th so Serendipity is quite a distance from Bloomingdales. Check out menupages.com. I have used the site to help me explore restuarants in NYC. You can search by location and food type. There are reviews by others that you can read. We recently had a great meal at Mama Mexico on Broadway and 102nd (which is near Columbia). The reviews on menupages were not uniformily excellent and it is more expensive than other nearby Mexican restuarants, but we enjoyed it. If you go, have the guacamole that is made at your table…it was great!</p>
<p>The Murray Hill area on Lexington Ave between 24th and 30th is referred to as Curry Hill because of the many Indian restuarants.</p>
<p>I still love Les Halles, and have had meals there that rival France. We like to eat there for a late lunch before Broadway shows, as I hate sitting in a show too full.</p>
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<p>Check out RollNRoaster at 3rd and 11th near NYU and also in Sheepshead Bay: <a href=“http://www.rollnroaster.com%5B/url%5D”>www.rollnroaster.com</a></p>
<p>Tasty upscale not-so-fast food, and the owner has been honored at the White House for his donations to childrens charities.</p>
<p>Serendipity is on 60th between 2nd and 3rd - just a block or two away from Bloomingdales.</p>
<p>I love Carnegie Deli on W 54th. HUGE sandwiches and matzoh ball soup with matzoh balls the size of baseballs. Yummy.</p>
<p>Wait. They let Cur into Manhattan?</p>
<p>Around Columbia…there’s Tom’s Restaurant (the exterier used for Seinfeld) at 112th and Broadway, and it is a popular student hang-out late at night. Another student haunt is Koronet Pizza at 111th and Broadway (enormous pizza for $2.75). The Hungarian Pastry Shop on 111th or 112th and Amsterdam. V&T’s is pretty good, but expensive if you don’t get pizza. Don’t underestimate the value of any pizzeria with the word Ray’s in it.</p>
<p>We like the Sea Grill downstairs at Rockefeller Center, particularly in winter, with the skaters right outside the window. It was magical 2 weeks ago, at the onset of the blizzard.</p>
<p>Alu, it was before all this goat flu hysteria hit. I’m sure I couldn’t make it out of LaGuardia today.</p>
<p>Don’t forget Rosa Mexicano …I think its at 1st ave. and maybe 56th street…they make guacamole right at your table. If you’re a margarita fan, the pomegranate ones are the best!</p>
<p>Goat Flu hysteria? What???</p>
<p>Chuckle out loud…he he. Goat flu. He he.</p>
<p>What a virus…what a town.</p>
<p>unsoccermom, sorry! I should know not to open my mouth…on the other hand, I believe that I was right about Serendipity and there do appear to be two locations for Jekyll and Hyde (I saw the one on 7th while we were taking the tour of NYU from the point of the general information session.
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<p>Other than that, my knowledge just barely scrapes the surface–no,not even that!.</p>
<p>'Mudge, I see the problem. People thought it was “goat flu” when it was reported “the goat flew into LaGuardia.” I think you have an obligation to correct the misapprehension and dispel the panic.</p>