Carmine's (italian) is good for big parties

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Carmine's
200 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036

Thank you to everybody who has replied, I've enjoyed your comments, this is better than Facebook. And yes, Ray had a lot of Flair.

Olive Garden and Applebee's aren't bad so.....

You didn't mention Indian, but there are many Indian restaurants on Lexington Ave starting around 24th St and going uptown

Knickerbocker, Otto, Grano, Cafetasia, Japonica, El Cantinero, Murphy & Gonzalez

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Cafetasia
38 E 8th St, New York, NY 10003

El Cantinero
86 University Pl, New York, NY 10003

Grano
21 Greenwich Ave, New York, NY 10014

Murphy & Gonzalez
21 Waverly Pl, New York, NY 10003

We live near Union Square. My daughter, age 12, and I decided to try TGI Friday's for a Saturday lunch, thinking it would be a fun and tasty nod to suburbia. Not so. $4 for tea. $17 for a sandwich. Lower quality and worse taste than any other place I can think of. It made McDonald's seem like a four-star restaurant, and McDonald's doesn't cost $26 per person. Never ever again.
But the waiter, Ray, was very nice.

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TGI Friday's
34 Union Square E, New York, NY 10003