NYC Restaurant suggestions after seeing Wicked
Oct 13th, 2017, 05:47 AM
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NYC Restaurant suggestions after seeing Wicked
My sons and daughter surprised me with the Mother's Day gift of going to see a Broadway show with them. We have tickets to see Wicked at the Gershwin theater during Thanksgiving weekend - a Saturday matinee. Looking for restaurant suggestions where my husband and I could take them out for dinner after the show. Willing to take taxi or uber, so not necessarily looking for something close to the theater.
Any suggestions? Italian, a steakhouse, seafood? Not looking for a place as high end as Keens steakhouse but a very nice place where we can enjoy good food and conversation (6 of us). One son is coming from California to join us.
Thank you!
Any suggestions? Italian, a steakhouse, seafood? Not looking for a place as high end as Keens steakhouse but a very nice place where we can enjoy good food and conversation (6 of us). One son is coming from California to join us.
Thank you!
Oct 13th, 2017, 07:22 AM
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It will be pretty quiet at almost any restaurant on a Saturday around 5:30, but because it's that weekend, you do need to make a reservation (though it's a bit early to reserve right now at most places since we're still more than a month out).
No need to take a taxi. There are dozens of good places within a 5-minute walk.
I like Vice Versa and Maria Pia, which are both on W 51st Street. The former is an upscale modern Italian restaurant that I go to a lot, but it's not cheap; the latter is more touristy and busier (less conducive to conversation), but with solid Italian food, especially if you order a la carte.
On west 50th (literally steps from the theater) is Toloache, a really great Mexican restaurant.
A little more expensive and busy is Becco, on W 46th (this is Lidia Bastianich's Italian restaurant). They have a really cheap all-you-can eat pasta special, but the best stuff is on the a la carte menu. It's busy, so you need to make reservations 30 days out for that weekendm and hopefully they will let you sit in the back, which is more conducive to conversation than the crowded front or upstairs rooms. But the food (esp. the a la carte menu) is really good ... the pasta special just ok.
Steakhouses in NYC are typically quite expensive, but if you want to go to the east side, you could go to Le Relais de Venise L'Entrecote on east 52nd Street/Lexington, where you can get a prix-fixe dinner of salad, steak, and fries (there is literally nothing else offered, so no "menu"), with inexpensive wine and good desserts.
Finally, I also like Tony's Di Napoli, a family-style Italian restaurant that is a cut above the typical Times Square place like Carmine's. You need reservations as far in advance as you can get them, but the food is good. It's on West 43rd in the Casablanca Hotel; I usually take big family groups to the one on the upper east side on 3rd Avenue at East 64th Street. It's one of my standbys.
No need to take a taxi. There are dozens of good places within a 5-minute walk.
I like Vice Versa and Maria Pia, which are both on W 51st Street. The former is an upscale modern Italian restaurant that I go to a lot, but it's not cheap; the latter is more touristy and busier (less conducive to conversation), but with solid Italian food, especially if you order a la carte.
On west 50th (literally steps from the theater) is Toloache, a really great Mexican restaurant.
A little more expensive and busy is Becco, on W 46th (this is Lidia Bastianich's Italian restaurant). They have a really cheap all-you-can eat pasta special, but the best stuff is on the a la carte menu. It's busy, so you need to make reservations 30 days out for that weekendm and hopefully they will let you sit in the back, which is more conducive to conversation than the crowded front or upstairs rooms. But the food (esp. the a la carte menu) is really good ... the pasta special just ok.
Steakhouses in NYC are typically quite expensive, but if you want to go to the east side, you could go to Le Relais de Venise L'Entrecote on east 52nd Street/Lexington, where you can get a prix-fixe dinner of salad, steak, and fries (there is literally nothing else offered, so no "menu"), with inexpensive wine and good desserts.
Finally, I also like Tony's Di Napoli, a family-style Italian restaurant that is a cut above the typical Times Square place like Carmine's. You need reservations as far in advance as you can get them, but the food is good. It's on West 43rd in the Casablanca Hotel; I usually take big family groups to the one on the upper east side on 3rd Avenue at East 64th Street. It's one of my standbys.
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Not everyone likes Becco, but the food is good if you order carefully and skip the cheap all-you-can-eat pasta. But if you're looking for something quick and cheap, even that isn't so bad. And they make the pasta in small batches and serve it tableside.
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