NYC- Dinner and Food Ideas this weekend, Birthday weekend
 

Looking for restaurant ideas this Friday and Saturday evening. In town to celebrate my husband's 41t birthday. For dinner, looking for steak, seafood, sushi, or "clean" food in Manhattan. We are staying in Midtown. During day, plan to check out the Chelsea market on Saturday, maybe checkout Brooklyn Saturday or Sunday- looking for deli, health food places, etc. Any suggestions ??

For steak you might consider Keen's
https://www.opentable.com/keens-steakhouse

LeBernardin is considered the best seafood restaurant in town...but it might be a little late for reservations.
I'm not a sushi person, so the mind is blank. (Neighbors have
gone to Masa... but they obviously have a larger bank a/c than
I. )

For delis: http://www.2ndavedeli.com/ I would suggest
the 32 street location.

Downtown on east side: http://www.katzsdelicatessen.com/

What is your budget?

You've left it super late to book at a top place, sorry to say.

You might be able to get a table here, and it is excellent; very cool area to walk around before dinner. John Derian shop is nearby.



http://www.bowerymeatcompany.com/


https://www.johnderian.com/

Try the Tree Bistro, East Village. Doubt it is "clean" food, whatever that is. Schillers Liquor Bar or Monkey Bar are other options but it is a bit late for reservations. River Cafe by Brooklyn bridge is really nice too.

ABC Kitchen has what you might call "clean" food, although I really do not understand that term.

Also, Loring Place, opened by the former chef at ABC Kitchen:



https://www.loringplacenyc.com/menus/

I've had good reactions after sending people to the Crave Fishbar on 2nd Ave, one of my personal favorites. http://cravefishbar.com

I haven't been to their West Side location.

I will have to try Crave; it's right near me and I've also heard pretty good things.

Do! When you go, try the crab tostada and the calamari appetizers. The oysters are also very good.

Ok, can we stop dancing around? What the hell is "clean food"?

Choose the answer:

1. Food served in a restaurant with a health dept rating of B or better.

2. Food that does not have dirt clinging to it.

3. Food that cleanses the colon; usually applies to high fiber food

4 Food uncontaminated by typhoid or salmonella bacteria

5. Food with little fat (so therefore with little taste)

6. Vague category that includes vegan and vegan-like food. Menu terms like "artisanal, locally sourced, natural" abound; male servers of these foods often have bushy beards

7. Kombucha listed under beverages on menu

It really doesn't matter does it?

Peter Luger in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is the place to go for steak.

OP has come and gone.

Thank for all the replies. We went to Keens and it was a neat experience, plus close tho our hotel. Also did Katz, which was great. Clean food to us is good food, organic or minimally processed and without a ton of added extras (salt, butter, sauces). Thank you all

We went to Keens and it was a neat experience, plus close tho our hotel. Also did Katz, which was great. Clean food to us is good food, organic or minimally processed and without a ton of added extras (salt, butter, sauces.)
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Culinary oxymorons.

Glad you enjoyed!

And who knew that the meat at Katz's was minimally processed and not overloaded with salt! I could go for a corn(ed) beef sandwich right this minute!

IMDonehere on Apr 16, 17 at 10:53am
"It really doesn't matter does it?"
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Are you referring to the definitions of "clean food"? Well, clearly it DID matter to the OP since they took the time and effort to specify that. And thanks, Sweetness, for getting back to us with what you meant by the term. Despite the insult from someone -- I don't think your definition is necessarily a culinary oxymoron. Food can be minimally processed without a ton of extras and still CAN be good. But apparently at least one reader thinks food can only be good if it is highly processed and has a ton of extras. How sad for them.


What is your problem, IMDonehere?

The problem, Neo is that you would rather start an argument than recognize an irony. Of course, you did not mention Eks comment

But if you think Keen's and Katz's produce minimally processed food with limited salt, then you should refrain from any future restaurant reviews.

I saw Ek's comment as humor, satire, or perhaps irony. I saw yours as the usual nastiness, nothing particularly ironic about your answer other than it was totally unfounded. But whatever.

And leave it to you, to focus on one of the restaurants they went to, which in all fairness the OP never said was the "clean food" she mentioned previously. Have you ever heard of someone asking about Italian food, then later saying "we ended up going to Le Bernardin instead" to which I'm sure you'd point out that Le Bernardin is not Italian? Duh.