A Guide to New York City
NY Restaurant Week returns July 16 – August 20. During the “week” (actually, over 20 days) more than 300 NYC restaurants will offer 3-course pre-fixe menus at bargain prices: $24.07 for lunch, and $35.00 for dinner (beverages and gratuities excluded). Some of the city’s finest restaurants are participating in this incredible deal, including Aquavit, Blue [...]
Inexpensive, filling, ready to nosh on the go – hot dogs are a staple of NYC cuisine. The sausages served in a bun are traditionally complimented with mustard, onions, pickle relish, or sauerkraut. They’re such an integral part of the city that visitors (including celebrities and foreign dignitaries) feel they haven’t experienced NYC without indulging [...]
Love to eat? Have an adventurous palate (or trouble deciding on a cuisine)? Then run, don’t walk to that annual celebration of culinary consumption: The Ninth Avenue Food Festival. May 19th & 20th, Hell’s Kitchen’s main drag, 9th Avenue, will be given over to food stalls offering cuisines from all over the world. From 12pm [...]
With a shortage of hotel rooms, and an “average” room rate of $275 a night, affordable accommodations in NYC are a highly elusive find. Fortunately, there are a few alternatives to budget-busting hotels. You’ll usually have to sacrifice room size and amenities (like, um, private bathrooms and elevators), but if cost is a priority, the [...]
Macy’s Herald Square, the world’s largest department store, presents its annual Flower Show – Brazil: Gardens in Paradise, March 25 – April 7, 2012. This year’s display breaks tradition by taking place in a large tent on the Broadway Plaza in front of the store. (The show’s usual setting, the landmark Art Deco main floor, [...]
Love great Asian food? (okay, who doesn’t?) Well, grab your chopsticks and head to Chinatown Restaurant Week, a celebration of Asian cuisines, including Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Malaysian. Through March 18th seventeen Manhattan Chinatown restaurants will offer special multi-course dinners for $18.88 (tax and gratuity not included). Participating restaurants: Peking Duck House – 28 Mott [...]
In NYC, St. Patrick’s Day is a big party. If you’re looking to celebrate Celtic pride, or simply join the hedonistic revelry, take a look my recent piece for Yahoo – NYC’s Great Irish Pubs for St. Patrick’s Day A few more great Irish Pubs – Swift Hiberian Lounge – this great Nolita pub (close [...]
