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NY Italian similar to SF's Delfina or A16
The best progressive, modern Italian food in the city is at Locanda Verde IMO....carmellini is killing it right now, could be the best italian restaurant in the city at the moment....
NY Italian similar to SF's Delfina or A16
I think A16 would be run of the mill if was in NYC at least I thought so when some of my SF friends insisted I eat there.. It's chef (Appleman I think his name is) is now at Pulino's in NYC. I think most folks here would concur, Pulino's ain't all that great.
The three restaurants you mentioned are not really comparable to a16 either, none serve pizza and they are all significantly more elegant and expensive (and much better than a16) particularly Marea. If you want neopolitan pizza, there has been an explosion of good places in nyc...motorino and keste probably being a good place to start...I would also throw Locanda Verde on your list for an elegant place as well...
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Marea
240 Central Park South, New York, NY 10019
Locanda Verde
377 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10013
Pulino's
282 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
L'Artusi, Maialino or Locanda Verde?
L'artusi isn't in the same ballpark as maialino and scarpetta.....It's a whole differnt thing and purely based on food not nearly as good as the other two. I would lean towards Maialino...
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Maialino
2 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10010
Pig out spots in Manhattan???????
agreed, the bar for burgers (and pizza, fried chicken,etc) has been raised so high in recent years that Corner Bistro is no longer that relevant...I like the idea of BBQ...The race finishes on the UWS you could easily take a cab to Dinosaur BBQ and in addition Dinosaur is a good place to celebrate (good beers, drinks, etc) and it takes reservations...
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Corner Bistro
331 W 4th St, New York, NY 10014
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que
777 W. 125th Street, New York, NY 10027
scarpetta or maialino?
That last and final time I was at SD26 was this summer, it was (as it always had been previously) very poor considering the price... frankly, it shocks me this place is still in business...
The last paragraph from Sifton's NY Times review sums it up nicely...
"Then there’s the long walk back through the bar to the street, past slightly stunned old regulars from San Domenico and gastro-tourists wondering what all the fuss was about. Emerging onto 26th Street, the overwhelming feeling a diner is left with is one of exhaustion, the sense that at SD26 we are a long, long way from the kind of restaurant Mr. May has stood for in New York City. It’s a restaurant to make anyone feel old. "
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SD26
19 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010
scarpetta or maialino?
There is very little good about SD26........ugly empty room, expensive menu with upselling waiters and average food...and its crosstown from the theater district....avoid
scarpetta and mailino are pretty much a toss up in terms of food - both are very good. My guess it is a little easier getting from scarpetta to the TD but it is pretty close....I would also try again at esca...
Food Porn: Lincoln
New Yorkers have been paying double the $60 per person at Il Mulino for years......regardless of how weak the pictures looked, Italian with a Thomas Keller liniage, in that beautiful space will keep that place packed no matter what they charge...
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Il Mulino
86 W 3rd St, New York, NY 10012
Food Porn: Lincoln
I know it was just a preview and it is FAR to early to judge but it looks pretty boring....
Eataly NYC
how do the rents compare in your neighborhood versus the Flatiron?
might explain the ricotta
Eataly NYC
"spiritually vacant"..."no perceptible love"
are you serious? it's a specialty store that just opened a week ago...out of the thousands and thousands specialty stores all across the country, how many were dripping love and spirituality a week into the game?
and to faulty them for being commercial, those guys just took out 50,000 square feet to sell spaghetti, maybe we should give them more than a week before condemning them for their lack of spirituality....BTW, had a pizza tonight, the bar is bean raised so high for neopolitan pizza in NYC the last few years and I expected Eataly would never compete but based on what I had today they definately do, If Batali had these pizzas (instead of those weird grilled ones) when Otto opened there would have been riots to get in....
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Eataly
200 5th Ave, New York, NY 10010
Must hit 'strips' for lower east side - visiting.
you are going to need like 10 vacations to get through all the great recs you received here!! lol
Food at the Gramercy Park Hotel?
That new rooftop menu looks pretty good to me, and for what it's worth, I thought the brunch at Mailino was pretty lackluster...
Anniversary in 10 days, on $150. Where's the most EXCITING place we can go?
avoid SD26 like the plague!
not only does it not meet your price parameters (its abserdly expensive) the room is huge and awful and has zero vibe. have fun fighting off the staff trying to up sell u!!
read all about it here....
http://ny.eater.com/archives/2010/08/sd26_7.php
I would consider Aldea, (the new ) Annisa, Recette, Scarpetta, Ma Peche, Peasant, Little Owl
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Little Owl
90 Bedford Street, New York, NY 10014
Annisa
13 Barrow Street, New York, NY 10014
Scarpetta
355 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10014
Aldea
31 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011
Ma Peche
15 W 56th St, New York, NY 10019
SD26
19 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010
Recette
328 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014
Fishmonger: looking for a bushel of oysters
I should have mentioned Fulton, high end restos, etc...however, a few posters mentioned chinatown and thats what I was thinking about when I wrote my post....
I think you are nuts to eat a crab from chinatown (or anywhere else really) unless you can ascertain where the crab was caught, which you won't be able to to do. All legally caught bushels of crabs will have a label on it, good luck find one of those in chinatown. It's illegal to commercial fish for striped bass in NYC because of the mercury and PCB's but you really think the crabs are perfectly fine?
from the article I linked to:
"Striped bass are a big marine fish concern of the DEC not only because they are a prized game fish for recreational anglers, but also because they are full of PCBs, thanks to the General Electric ( GE - news - people ) plants upstream on the Hudson that pumped the contaminants into the water for 30 years until 1976. There is no commercial fishery for stripers in New York City waters."
Fishmonger: looking for a bushel of oysters
crabs should have source information, I wouldn't touch one without knowing where they were caught....a great deal of the local seafood sold in chinatown markets will not be sourced and is likely poached and poached from places illegal to commercial fish - like Jamaica bay. Fish and shellfish from Jamica bay and waters surrounding NYC are known to be very very high in mercury and other metals...me, I would pay the premium and order a bushel from Citarella....
http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/25/poaching-fishing-black-market-lifestyle-food-nyc-dec.html
Old Style Diners?
guts, I don't really get what your saying, where I grew up in Jersey (home of the diner) all the diners were owned by greeks....
btw, there are lots around the city....my favorite is Astro on 55th & 6th....they serve the defining old school diner burger...great for a hangover!! or for something a little out of your box, go to Veselka...
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Veselka
144 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003
Astro Restaurant
1361 6th Ave, New York, NY 10019
La Grenouille or Marea tonight?
I'm suprised nobody recommended Eleven Madison Park!!
Go to Marea.....I know it is tough to pass up the thrill of sitting next to a pair of 80 year old blue hairs eating dover sole and and drinking a $3,000 dollar bottle of wine while being served tired "classics" ... skip the group think here and go to Marea...
Restaurant Recommendations for either Pizza or Burgers for a fun thirtysomething's birthday?
maybe consider BBQ, BBQ restauramts tend to be a little more conducive to those types of events....downstairs at hill country is fun, Dinosaur is really fun...
"Chef's Gifts/Extra Courses" at 4 Star Resto's
sorta like the Egg at Le Bernadin....MMMM!!!
Babbo dining time
I'd definately go...tell them you need to move quickly and they will have you out of there...Babbo loves to turn those tables....maybe skip dessert
ABC Kitchen: The Worst Service We've Had In 8+ Years of NYC Dining
remember brunch is the shift no one wants to work. The unfortunate employees that have to work sunday brunch are nearly always the junior varsity (regardless of who owns the place or how high end it is) and given that it was a sunday in the summer, the chances are that the vast majority of the staff was hungover is very probable...not an excuse just a fact of life in the big city....
Classic Cocktail Bar/Lounge...
Dude, if you eliminate "flocks of skinny jeaned twenty-somethings from Williamsburg, nor the polar opposite ie. designer decked socialites and wall-street types." ....you eliminate 99% of the population up after midnight...
Ma Peche - dinner crowds?
while I agree it's probably not for the older set, I really like the X table...Dessert at the table would be nice however, Ssam or noodle didn't used to have desserts either, they changed that, I bet the dessert policy changes at Ma Peche to....give this place some time to settle in, all of Chang's places are works in progress and they always end up pretty good...
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Ma Peche
15 W 56th St, New York, NY 10019
Food Feuds
Marea vs Esca
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Esca
402 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036
Marea
240 Central Park South, New York, NY 10019
Food Feuds
RUB BBQ vs Dinosaur vs Hill Country vs Daisy Mae
...maybe the styles are to different...
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Hill Country
30 W 26th St, New York, NY 10010
RUB BBQ
208 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011
Food Feuds
Otto gelato vs Il Labratorio gelato vs Grom Gelato
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Grom
233 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10014
