Summer Associate Lunch Suggestions: New York City
ATL is taking a gastronomical tour of the United States. We're stopping in different Biglaw cities to find out where lawyers go, and where summer associates should go, for the good eats. [FN1]
We've been to D.C. We've been to San Francisco. We've been to Chicago. We're going to Texas. We're going to Massachusetts. We're going to the Pacific Northwest. We're going to Pennsylvania... [Insert Howard Dean yeahhhhhhhh here.]
But right now, we're stopping to take a bite out of the Big Apple. Here is the eagerly anticipated open thread to discuss the many fine dining options in NEW YORK.
To aid the discussion, here are links to restaurants that have received four stars and three stars from the New York Times. And here is New York Magazine's list of best restaurants for 2008.
Attorneys: Where would you steer summer associates eating out? And where would you steer them away from?
Summer associates: Which places are the "hot tickets," the most coveted dining venues this year?
Update: Check out this cool new feature over at Eater, "Summer Associate's Diary."
Where To Eat 2008 [New York Magazine]
Four-Star Restaurants (NYC) [New York Times]
Three-Star Restaurants by Frank Bruni (NYC) [New York Times]
[FN1] This tour is more virtual than physical (which is a good thing for Lat, since he is publicly dieting).
Earlier: Summer Associate Lunch Suggestions in Washington, D.C.; San Francisco; and Chicago
(138) Comments
MEtrazur in Grand Central is fun. I think thats the name/spelling.
Is Nobu still cool, or is it "five minutes ago"?
Speaking of NYC, where is Aquagirl?
Kwik Meal - 45th & 6th.
I'm taking my Summers to the Modern on Monday, I think. Looking forward to it.
Il Mulino. Peter Lugar's.
Hot dog stand at 49th and 6th. It's fantastic. There's a decent steak joint close by too
So from what Kash says, I take it ATL isn't planning on goin' to Kansas City . . .
A few that spring to mind:
Four Seasons
Lever House
Donatella & David Burke
Del Friscoe's (standard steak power lunch)
Bar Americain
11:29 - There are restaurants in Kansas?
Mars 2112 in the house! Or if they're booked, will settle for Le Bernardin.
Del Frisco's
Virgil's BBQ
Baldoria
Fresco By Scotto
The Modern
Il Mulino and Lugar's? Really? If you want that, I guess you deserve it.
Spend 15 minutes on Chowhound.
Failing that, The Modern, Eleven Madison Park, Vice Versa, Burger Joint (or Shake Shack), Jean Georges, Perry St (for dinner)...
Anytime I'm in NYC I go to my favorite NY pizza joint . . . Sbarro's. They have good pizza and good service (that's what she said).
Michael Scott
When jonesin' for pizza in west Midtown, hit Strokos on 58th/10th.
Rosa Mexicana and Dos Caminos are also great and have several locations.
For Mexican in Brooklyn, go to Pacifico. For Middle Eastern, hit Sahadi's.
Phoenix Garden
For those of us who work in/around Times Square, have pitty on us, for these are our lunch options:
Olive Garden
Red Lobster
Applebee's
Ruby Tuesday
Ruby Foo's
Jamba Juice
Hawaiian Tropic
Dallas BBQ
etc.
Per Se...
How about Mickey D's? WILL SOMEBODY GET THE KID A HAPPY MEAL!
For those of us who work in/around Times Square, have pitty on us, for these are our lunch options:
Olive Garden
Red Lobster
Applebee's
Ruby Tuesday
Ruby Foo's
Jamba Juice
Hawaiian Tropic
Dallas BBQ
etc.
Per Se...
How about Mickey D's? WILL SOMEBODY GET THE KID A HAPPY MEAL!
Per Se...
How about Mickey D's? WILL SOMEBODY GET THE KID A HAPPY MEAL!
Not true, 11:41. You have to look, but there are some good spots. Try District (a little quiet, but good for a one-on-one lunch). Then there's Bar Americain, Gordon Ramsey at the London, Esca, and if you're willing to trek a little further, Jean Georges and BLT Market. All of them are decent enough.
re: Times Square lunch options:
Don't forget "Bubba Gump Shrimp Co."
Aquavit.
I would suggest a sampling of the Charcoal Arugula at Texarcana, followed by the Sea Urchin Seviche at Dorsia. For a later-in-the afternoon meal, I would suggest the swordfish meatloaf with onion marmalade from Pastels. Watch out for Marcus Halberstram.
Jean Georges
11:32- Kansas Citians dig a pit and smoke a steer over it. That's kind of a restaurant, right?
Kansas city actually has a surprising number of good restaurants for it' midwestern redneckness. Had to go there on a roadshow once. Nice spot.
Aquavit sucks for lunch - I have never been happy there.
Anyone seriously advocating you take summers to Per Se for lunch must have an obscene budget - your prix fixe will run at least $250 per person.
Never been to the Modern but it seems to be highly recommended.
the modern.
street meat at 53rd & 6th is decent as well.
skip tao.
Oceana
Sushi Yasuda
david burke & donatella
Park Avenue Spring
Jean Georges
Le Coloniale
L'Atelier (@ Four Seasons)
Vong
Aquavit
BLT Market
Modern
Less over-subscribed spots (seriously, by the end of the summer any SA at Mayer Brown will have been to Bar Americain at least six times):
Hell's Kitchen
BXL Bar
Insieme
Marseille
Telepan
Casellula (don't know if they're open for lunch, but so gooood)
Toloache
Dos Caminos
Les Halles
Tabla
Vong = also sucks.
Negative on all Jean Georges restaurants. I've never liked anything I've had there.
Try the Patriot Saloon at Church St. and Chambers St. No wine list but PBRs are $2, sliders (mini burgers) are $1 and hot dogs are $1.50. Great ambiance too -- a stuffed alligator on a surfboard and a Jacson Pollackesque painting on the wall plus country music. Vivia los Texas Tornadoes!
Bar Americain = overrated
Is every summer in the city being taken to the same 10 places? Dullsville.
Inoteca on Rivington. A little out of the way for BigLaw shops for lunch, but definately worth it if you are going in the evening.
wd-50
Oh, definitely agree on Tabla. Delicious. Even though it's old, I still like Asia de Cuba. Bouley is great too.
McSorleys--the large cheese plate and a round of dark.
PORCAU.
Does La Esquina do lunch? That'd be fun for out-of-town summers. Just to give them a little "walking through the kitchen" flair.
Avra Estiatorio on E.48th--best and freshest sea food in the city
Don't bother with the Fordham Law Cafeteria on 62nd and Columbus...all the food they serve was deemed unfit for consumption by the CLS and NYU cafs.
Is Sbarro a joke? Or you just haven't spent enough time in New York?
You shouldn't bother pizza unless you go outside Manhattan. But if you have to eat pizza in 212, avoid Sbarro's.
Candle 79
Candle Cafe
Hangawi
Zenith
Zen Palate
Kosher - Essex Downtown Baby!!
Essex is the only "nice" kosher restaurant downtown, except for maybe Subway.
3rd place - Dovid's Kosher Food Stand; the food's good, but there aren't any tables.
I don't know about the rest of the list, but I am getting tired about articles and posts as to where to take self-indulged summer associates for lunch. I appreciate that this is the universe we have created, but the economy and the world around us have chnaged: how about a new paradigm, which may serve and benefit others? Suggest a hot dog at one of our corner vendors with your partner and associate mentors, and have the firm give the remaining $50 or $75 per person to earthquake relief in China or for typhoon relief in Burma. Or, God forbid, volunteer as a group to serve lunch at a shelter or soup kitchen: the last time I looked, we had plenty of those in New York and DC. (Those who get no-offered in August might have to rely on thrse services next year, so finding out where they ar e located may serve a secondary purpose.)
What other industry pays summers $3000 per week AND fetes them with $50 lunch every day? A summer who plays his or her cards right will not have to seen the inside of a grocery store, or pay for a meal, until August 15. No wonder biglaw is messed up.
any other suggestions in gramercy/flatiron near mad square park? other than shake shack.
"Tavern on the Green I have a glass wine, he said, she said, I heard it through the grapevine!"
Somtimes I rhyme fast sometimes i rhyme slow...
Gus' Pickles on Delancey St...have a horseradish eating contest!
You eat it Pyle! They're payin' for it!
"Tavern on the Green I have a glass wine, he said, she said, I heard it through the grapevine!"
Somtimes I rhyme fast sometimes i rhyme slow...
Gus' Pickles on Delancey St...have a horseradish eating contest!
You eat it Pyle! They're payin' for it!
12:20- Learn to read or maybe just watch an episode of 'The Office'....tool.
11:42 AM-- Obviously you're an Associate in Skadden's Real Estate Dept. THey haven't started cutting people yet, but, if I were you, I'd find a better way to spend my time... mgmt.
11:42 AM-- Obviously you're an Associate in Skadden's Real Estate Dept. THey haven't started cutting people yet, but, if I were you, I'd find a better way to spend my time... mgmt.
11:42 AM-- Obviously you're an Associate in Skadden's Real Estate Dept. THey haven't started cutting people yet, but, if I were you, I'd find a better way to spend my time... mgmt.
the modern is HORRIBLE. don't go!!!!!
go instead to eleven madison park, alto and grammercy tavern.
I second 12:24. 12:20, did you think the *signed* Michael Scott was the poster's real name?
BLT Market
pardon me for not watching as much television as you do. "Michael Scott" is such an unusual designation, I should have noticed it was suspicious.
12:23: The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you buddy? It's the free market. And you're a part of it. You've got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I've still got a lot to teach you.
12:25 says- sorry for the double post... goes back into the Skadden never ending case/torture rack room
Thanks Gordon...
12:23(1) -- Phil Telfeyan?
The best lunch in New York is a pizza fed-exed from Lou Malnati's in Chicago.
12:22 - What about that shawarma place on Ann St.?
Cross the Brooklyn Bridge and go to Grimaldis for Pizza.
HOW ABOUT A POST ON ESCORT SERVICES?
WHERE DO ASSOCIATES TAKE SUMMERS TO GET HOOKERS?
IN B4 SPITZER.
12:02 - QE?
poop
@12:35 - 12:33 is the anti- Phil Telfeyan, Gordon Gekko
12:47, Grimaldi's is good, but the line can be intollerable.
12:47, Grimaldi's is good, but the line can be intollerable.
prime grill, everytime. but then again, kosher means few choices
I would save the walk across the Brooklyn Bridge for the weekend. It's a great idea.
If you are looking for Kosher, then unfortunately you have to trek out to Queens or New Rochelle and go to Grill Point.
12:18 - go back to bar/bri
Wo Hop in Chinatown
12:23, why don't you write a Harvard Law Review note about how other people should spend their money only for the valid moral purposes designated by you.
the places along the old cobblestone part of Stone St. are all pretty good.
does anyone know if 14 Wall Street reopened?
Vong is terrible. Other Jean Georges restaurants (JG, Perry Street, etc.) are excellent.
Re: the comments that maybe it's time to put some of this money to a better purpose: does Simpson Thacher still do its "chow for charity" thing? I think it's a great program: everyone stays under a budget of $15 each, and the firm donates $45 each to charity. So, four summers, two associates, great lunch in Bryant Park and $270 to charity.
2:05: I'm pleasantly surprised that it's been 15 minutes, but no one's called you a fag yet.
P.S.: It's really not all that funny to post "fag" immediately after this.
P.P.S.: While marginally more funny, it's still not funny to post "fag," even after THIS.
12:23(1) - F'ing Hippie
Aquagrill, Spring & 6th Ave, amazing.
Re: 12:21 -- yay for vegetarian/vegan attorneys
Aquagrill, Spring & 6th Ave, amazing.
Re: 12:21 -- yay for vegetarian/vegan attorneys
Aquagrill, Spring & 6th Ave, amazing.
Re: 12:21 -- yay for vegetarian/vegan attorneys
Some of my favorites (although some might need the presence of a partner for a summer event):
Cru
Daniel
15 East
Bouley
Le Bernadin
Nobu
Just had Docks oysters and seafood on 3rd ave beloe 41st and that was good.
No points for creativity, but I admit I enjoy Capital Grille
Kramer Levin donates to Meals on Wheels the difference between $60 per person and what is actually spent per person at every summer associate lunch.
Le Barnadin for a summer lunch eh? HAha, dont think they would let me expense that. I think the summers category means places where entrees are $30 or less.
$60? nice, im jealous.
Correction to 2:40 above--they donate to City Harves the difference
lol @ some of your budgets. it's 75$ at my firm, and we can go every day.
Near Madison Sq. Park:
Tabla
Tamarind (even better Indian)
Les Halles
and if they have started serving lunch, try ilili
3:00 PM-which my firm?
China Grill is outstanding
Lunch:
21
Union Square Cafe
Sushi Yasuda
Harvard Club
Sea Grill
Dinner:
Modern (more for the setting)
Le Bernardin
Bouley
Daniel
Ago
Bouley
Antique Garage
Mark Joseph
Acappella
Blue Ribbon
per zagats top food:
28:
Le bernardin
Daniel
Sushi Yasuda
per se
Peter Luger
Gramercy Tavern
Cafe Boulud
Bouley
Jean Georges
27:
Annisa
Chabterelle
Masa
Gotham Bar & Grill
Alain Ducasse
Veritas
Aureole
Sushi Seki
Sushi of Gari
Nobu
Tomoe Sushi
Babbo
La Grenouille
Tasting Room
Union Square Cafe
Il Mulino
I have been working for three weeks now-- here are the standouts:
Jean Georges (A++)
Sushi Yasuda (A++)
Aquavit (A+)
Union Square (A+)
Gramercy Tavern (A)
Good:
Nobu (A-)
The Modern (A-)
Average/Below Average:
Tao
21
Places still looking forward to:
Lugars
Sparks
Le Bernandin
BLT Market
Bouley
DB and Donatella
Quality Meats, 58th btwn 5th and 6th
I want a job where 3:25 works.
Luger's may not be trendy, but it is a NY institution, the food is always top-notch, and their lunch is actually pretty reasonable. Among the best burgers in the city for a solid price.
I don't get why some of you think it's tacky if you're not spending $75/day 5 days a week on a bunch of 26 year olds. Give me the SA who appreciates my spending time with them over spending my money on them.
agree with 3:31. summer associates should be happy with 3 lunches on the firm per week, and you don't need to spend $75 to get a good plate.
Craft
Union Square Cafe
11 Madison
A Voce
From Lat's update:
"Summer Associate's Diary: Week 1 at Gramercy, Patroon, Sparks"
http://eater.com/archives/2008/05/associate.php
Lot of bad suggestions here, some good ones. Also Zagat is kind of a joke. Gramercy Tavern has one of the best and likely to please a wide crowd lunches in the city these days. Jean Georges is probably the best lunch deal around (don't just order two courses though obviously). Bouley also has a great lunch deal. Never been to Eleven Madison Park for lunch, but it's a great restaurant so I'm sure you can't go wrong. Also love Lupa for lunch. Yasuda if you're with real sushi eaters is an obvious great choice.
Some other good options that unfortunately might be overlooked are Insieme, especially for Midtown West firms, and Anthos can be very good too. If you want steakhouse I'd probably try Keen's before the usual suspects that have shown up here (Luger's excepted).
Craft
Babbo
Le Bernardin
Megu (downtown)
Dorsia, but good luck getting reservations
Already tired of Bar Americain.
Chinese seems in, at least at my firm. I've gone to Tao, Peking Duck House, and China Grill.
Some of my standouts were:
Gordon Ramsay at the London - fantastic.
Aquavit - If you dig scandinavian food. Especially if you like herring.
Del Frisco's - My fave steak place
Quality Meats - A close second
The Modern - Best for drinks and hors d'eouvres after work
Sushi Yasuda - A+++ BEST sushi I've had.
Nobu - A standard, it's good not great
Blue Smoke - Good for a change of pace, good BBQ for NYC. It's a cab ride, though, from anywhere
jones day is so cheap... we'll never go to any of these places. and no blackberries despite what their website says!
7:22- you're not so popular with your fellow summers, eh?
Cry me a river 12:23. We win, you lose. Deal with it. P_ussy.
I'm fully with 331 and 338. At the end of the day, the whole lunch thing is as much a bribe for the summers as it is a way for associates to find the future first year associates with whom they wouldn't mind being stuck in a document room/airplane/drafting session for 18 hours. In my mind, if a summer is cool and seems content having a chill lunch at a nearby and less expensive location, then that speaks very highly of them.
FWIW, Aquavit and Del Frisco's are my favs. (But try Le Bonne Soupe or Menchanko Tei for a cheaper, but still great option)
A nice compilation from the above (with some places cut out, like Bar Americain, which kind of blows...)
BLT Steak,
DavidBurke & Donatello
Kwik Meal
Il Mulino
L'Atelier (@ Four Seasons)
BXL Bar
Insieme
Marseille
Telepan
Casellula
Toloache
Dos Caminos
Les Halles
Tabla
Candle 79
Candle Cafe
Hangawi
Zenith
Zen Palate
alto
grammercy tavern
Cru
Daniel
15 East
Bouley
Tamarind
Sparks
Insieme
Keen's
Babbo
Blue Smoke
Lever House
Del Friscoe's
Baldoria
Fresco By Scotto
Eleven Madison Park,
Vice Versa
Jean georges
Street meat
The Modern
Peter Lugers
10:05 -- Even at 5 meals a week, that gets you through 8 weeks of eating with no repeats. Nice!
Avon Bistro at 155 East 52nd St. (btwn 3rd and Lex) is awesome. Amorous Annie works Friday nights dishing out $5 sliders, double pours of single malt scotchs, Oban, Belvennie and bourbons like Basil-Haydn at dive bar prices. This former Economist intern will keep the conversation flowing in fluent French and Russian. Also, late night she rocks her i-pod and serenades her devotees with dirty jokes. She hopes to head to law school soon so don't miss her!
I think that Del Posto and Morimoto should be thrown into the mix, and I'm shocked that nobody in midtown west has mentioned the Palm. I had lunch there as a SA last summer and randomly ran into four friends from school who were all out on SA lunches themselves.
Lots of the places mentioned are closed or not open for lunch. Also some firms do not allow some of the places I'm going to mention below, but the best lunch places are (not in order):
Jean Georges
Le Bernadin
Koi
Asiate
Peter Lugers / Sparks / Del Friscos / Wolfgangs
Gordon Ramsay
L'atelier de joel robuchon
11 madison park
Union square cafe
Gramercy Tavern
Il Mulino
The Modern (dining room, not cafe)
Sushi Yasuda
Davidburke & Donatella
The Four Seasons (if your firm let's you)
Cafe Boulud
La Grenouille
Aureole
Le Bilboquet
Chanterelle
Sushi of Gari
Town
21 Club
DB Bistro Moderne
Estiatorio Milos
Nobu
Oceana
Some people would include Acquavit, I do not care for it. I also have not been to lever house, but have heard it is also good (I've been to all the above). Finally, I prefer New American and French to Italian, so take that for what it's worth (i.e. perhaps Esca should be included on here in addition to Il Mulino. NB: Babbo and Del Posto are not open for lunch)
Lots of the places mentioned are closed or not open for lunch. Also some firms do not allow some of the places I'm going to mention below, but the best lunch places are (not in order):
Jean Georges
Le Bernadin
Koi
Asiate
Peter Lugers / Sparks / Del Friscos / Wolfgangs
Gordon Ramsay
L'atelier de joel robuchon
11 madison park
Union square cafe
Gramercy Tavern
Il Mulino
The Modern (dining room, not cafe)
Sushi Yasuda
Davidburke & Donatella
The Four Seasons (if your firm let's you)
Cafe Boulud
La Grenouille
Aureole
Le Bilboquet
Chanterelle
Sushi of Gari
Town
21 Club
DB Bistro Moderne
Estiatorio Milos
Nobu
Oceana
Some people would include Acquavit, I do not care for it. I also have not been to lever house, but have heard it is also good (I've been to all the above). Finally, I prefer New American and French to Italian, so take that for what it's worth (i.e. perhaps Esca should be included on here in addition to Il Mulino. NB: Babbo and Del Posto are not open for lunch)
jones day is cheap?? and i thought they at least paid for blackberry service?
Some firms -- and I don't want to mention any names -- really cut back on lunch budgets this summer. It sucks.
What about Hartford CT?
What about Hartford CT?
What about Hartford CT?
I do not work in BigLaw, I spend wisely and have been to many of the restaurants mentioned here.
1. If anyone spells Luger's as Lugars you need to be banned from this board. And yes, their porterhouse, same price lunch and dinner, is the best hands-down...for service and overall dining Mark Joseph and Del Frisco's are my fave downtown and midtown repsectively...Sparks also very good IMO...Smith and Wollensky/Mortons are OK but you can do better in this city, stay away from Old Homestead.
2. As a native NYer I cannot believe how many of you drink the kool-aid...many of these places are just perfect for BigLaw, Nobu et. al, over-hyped mass market factories that operate in a manner only BigLaw could appreciate. Bar Americain...a Bobby Flay place in midtown....you are asking to be ridiculed if you even consider it, 1/2 the cost is in the name...much like BigLaw...although at least at a restaurant the costs are apparent when you place your order, not 5 years after a massive litigation. $75 for lunch...you should all be embarrased if you hit that figure, especially if you are not drinking (I hope) at lunch.
3. When I leave my office at a normal time, 7ish most of the time, I either go to they gym at night ot can wake up early enough to go in the morning. When I attend meetings/status conferences (Jrs at smalelr shops actually do these things!) with opposing counsel from larger firms its plain to see why its called BigLaw...there are a bunch of fatties running around, I do not mean to offend..but come on...even if you don't have time to exercise like me you make enough money to eat healthy!
4. The places mentioned are, for the most part, quality e stablsihments however if you eat there EVERY DAY they loose thir luster. NYC is great bc of options...bc sometimes its nice to have a Wagyu ribeye with a side of truffled spinach for $200 pp but sometimes you just want a Patsy's (bc I know you aren't schlepping to the BK for Grimaldi's at lunch) pie which at roughly $20 is a decent expenditure for many NYers at lunch. A city can be great bc it has $2 falafel 24/7 or Polish food at Veselka on 2nd ave for under $20 pp which is fantastic. Try Little Giant on Orchard for great fresh local food...there are som many other places...none of you are doing any work...go log on to Menupages and see whats around your 'hood.
I haven't seen anyone mention L'Impero yet. That was one of my favorites as a summer associate.
I also loved Le Bernadin, Jean Georges, Sushi Yasuda, Eleven Madison Park, and Bouley.
I am also a native NYer (from Manhattan) and did my summer last summer. I also used to want to be a chef, and food is a passion. So here is my list off the top of my head.
Jean George
Le Bernadin
Daniel
Cafe Gray (not my fav, but great views)
Sushi Yasuda
Nobu (I think it gets a bad rap, not that it isnt basically a chain now--love the yellowtail w/jalapeno)
Sushi of Geri
Peter Luger's
Picholine (kind of far for lunch, but amazing food)
Artisinal (fun, not amazing, great cheese)
Acquavit
Babbo (if you can get in)
Grammercy Tavern
cafe Boulud
Tasting Room(although I think it is highly overrated)
Chanterelle
Aureole
Bond St (I LOVE sushi)
Cheaper places for your own fun that I love:
Saigon grill--goot vietname
102 broadway--pizza by the slice, awesome sauce--total hole in the wall
Clinton Street (BEST BRUNCH in the city--amazing huevos rancheros, and bacon)
forgetting some other great ones--will post again when i think of them. happy eating. Can't wait to be back in NYC to enjoy it.
and as to the fat comment--so true, i would say if you are eating big lunches every day, try to not eat much for dinner like the europeans, or you might have 10 pounds to lose this fall.
I am also a native NYer (from Manhattan) and did my summer last summer. I also used to want to be a chef, and food is a passion. So here is my list off the top of my head.
Jean George
Le Bernadin
Daniel
Cafe Gray (not my fav, but great views)
Sushi Yasuda
Nobu (I think it gets a bad rap, not that it isnt basically a chain now--love the yellowtail w/jalapeno)
Sushi of Geri
Peter Luger's
Picholine (kind of far for lunch, but amazing food)
Artisinal (fun, not amazing, great cheese)
Acquavit
Babbo (if you can get in)
Grammercy Tavern
cafe Boulud
Tasting Room(although I think it is highly overrated)
Chanterelle
Aureole
Bond St (I LOVE sushi)
Cheaper places for your own fun that I love:
Saigon grill--goot vietname
102 broadway--pizza by the slice, awesome sauce--total hole in the wall
Clinton Street (BEST BRUNCH in the city--amazing huevos rancheros, and bacon)
forgetting some other great ones--will post again when i think of them. happy eating. Can't wait to be back in NYC to enjoy it.
and as to the fat comment--so true, i would say if you are eating big lunches every day, try to not eat much for dinner like the europeans, or you might have 10 pounds to lose this fall.
I am also a native NYer (from Manhattan) and did my summer last summer. I also used to want to be a chef, and food is a passion. So here is my list off the top of my head.
Jean George
Le Bernadin
Daniel
Cafe Gray (not my fav, but great views)
Sushi Yasuda
Nobu (I think it gets a bad rap, not that it isnt basically a chain now--love the yellowtail w/jalapeno)
Sushi of Geri
Peter Luger's
Picholine (kind of far for lunch, but amazing food)
Artisinal (fun, not amazing, great cheese)
Acquavit
Babbo (if you can get in)
Grammercy Tavern
cafe Boulud
Tasting Room(although I think it is highly overrated)
Chanterelle
Aureole
Bond St (I LOVE sushi)
Cheaper places for your own fun that I love:
Saigon grill--goot vietname
102 broadway--pizza by the slice, awesome sauce--total hole in the wall
Clinton Street (BEST BRUNCH in the city--amazing huevos rancheros, and bacon)
forgetting some other great ones--will post again when i think of them. happy eating. Can't wait to be back in NYC to enjoy it.
and as to the fat comment--so true, i would say if you are eating big lunches every day, try to not eat much for dinner like the europeans, or you might have 10 pounds to lose this fall.
Lat - can you do a thread on summer lunch b