lunch around Gramercy Park (NYC)
 

We will be checking into our hotel (Inn at Irving) around noon on Friday and need a place for a quick lunch. We have dinner reservations for 6 pm at Becco, so don't want to overdo at lunch. Any suggestions? Burgers, salads, soups all sound good.<BR><BR>Thanks!<BR><BR>Kim

Mumbles Restaurant on 17th and 3rd is a bar/restaurant type place - reasonable, standard food in a pub typ atmosphere. <BR><BR>Friend of a Farmer on Irving Place, on the other side of the Park from the hotel. It serves &quot;country&quot; type comfort food.

Hi Kim, I work somewhat near Gramercy Park...here are a couple suggestions.<BR><BR>For the best burgers in the city, go to Old Town Bar at 45 E 18th Street. The bar is historic, and the lunch is cheap.<BR><BR>On 5th Avenue just south of 23rd St (a bit of a walk from where you are staying) there are some good delis where I have lunch every day. One is City Market Cafe, which has soup, sandwiches, little $5 pizzas for one (though they feed two) and a salad guy who tosses salads for you with the ingredients you pick. Marinos also has good sandwiches, soups, and hot food &amp; cold salad bars. Deli Marche has two enormous hot food &amp; cold salad bars.<BR><BR>You won't have trouble finding food, there are hundreds of restaurants within walking distance of your hotel. When in a real hurry, grab a quick slice of pizza - that's what we NYers do! There are pizza places everywhere.

For a light lunch, I would do a little sushi at Mizu. It's very nice and peaceful! 29 E 20th St is the address.<BR><BR>-darvy

On Irving Place across the street from your hotel: <BR><BR> -Friend of a Farmer, already mentioned -- there are always lines there &amp; it might take too long<BR><BR> 71 Irving Place has coffee, pastries, soup, maybe a sandwich, and is very nice and reliable<BR><BR> Choshi at 18th and Irving is a modest and adequate non-frills Japanese place, you could have sushi/sashimi or other food.<BR><BR> On 16th and Irving, the Cottage Chinese restaurant is also quite adequate, inexpensive, and fast.<BR><BR> I understand you'll be at the Inn, not the G Park Hotel, so these places are all on your side of the Park.<BR><BR>

The Old Town Bar is a good suggestion, and on the same street a block or 2 east is Pete's Tavern, another old New York pub.<BR><BR>

Thanks for correcting my post Elizabeth - I was thinking Gramercy Park Hotel when I said F of F was on the other side of the park.

My favorite food in the world is now Indian cuisine. Go to Little India. <BR><BR>Want a burger? Stay home and cook chopped chuck, pop a can of Man Handler in the micro wave. <BR><BR>We found several excellent indian restaurants around 33rd St. &amp; 3rd avenue. Curry in a Hurry!! Very reasonbly priced.<BR>So many new foods that my tast buds have never experienced....<BR><BR>There are so many options (Thai, Italian, Viet Namiese, Deli, real Hot Dogs). Where else but in NY can you find so many types of ethnic neighborhoods and restaurants?<BR><BR>