Thanks Margie,Had a great dinner experience at Cara Mia, they are also associated with Maria Pia, Roberto Passon and Puttanesca.Keep up the good work guys.

yankees with such attitudes..wonder why we want to visit "them"????

So, stay home!

For Turkish food... DERVISH!!! It's a very lovely restaurant with fantastic food, great prices - especially their pre-theater special... and magnificent, friendly service!!

here's a "new yorker" chiming in:
Another vote for Maria Pia, cute italian, with exposed brick walls. Love Becco, chef Felidia is well known (has her own tv show)... definitely get the three choice pasta "add on" to your dish and indulge. Bond 45 opened this past year, good italian, great mozzarella samplers, etc. Osteria al Doge is another great italian trattoria.
all the restaurants i just mentioned are in the West 40's.

personally all of my favorite restaurants are really below 34th street!!!

For Italian restaurants at a reasonable price, we've enjoyed both Maria Pia and Pietrasanta (47th and 9th). You can find entrees under $20 at both, and the atmosphere is very nice.

My response to theater restaurant suggestions is that I still recommend Becco at 46th between 8th and 9th. Although there are some other good suggestions here (Churrascaria Plataforma).

I haven't had great experiences with Puttanesca, but know people that swear by it.

And count me in the camp that sees NOTHING wrong with this question, you would think all these "New Yorkers" would have lived here long enough (perhaps that's the problem, they've lived here TOO long and bought into the whole obnoxious thing) to know that restaurants in NYC and in particular the theater district come in go nearly as quickly as people do. And even if a restaurant lasts for a while does NOT mean that it deserves a recommendation for its entire term. There's a corner restaruant by my apartment that's changed ownership/cuisines 4 times in 3 years. This is a dynamic question that requires dynamic responses, simply looking at answers and threads in the past isn't necessarily going to provide the answers one seeks.