Working on NYC Itinerary for next week
Mar 10th, 2012, 06:36 PM
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For pizza-Motorino, Lombardi's
After Joe's Shanghai be sure to go the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory for store made ice cream. My favorite is almond cookie.
For tapas-Tia Pol, Nai.
There is a new Greek place across from Jackson Diner called Taverna. Usual fare but well done.
Upscale Greek Pylos
Italian-Cacio e Pepe, Supper, and I Coppi
Had wonderful sandwiches at Parm yesterday in Little Italy, retro-hip, painful noise level, absolutely perfect eggplant parm
Went to Turkish Kitchen tohight better than ever.
After Joe's Shanghai be sure to go the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory for store made ice cream. My favorite is almond cookie.
For tapas-Tia Pol, Nai.
There is a new Greek place across from Jackson Diner called Taverna. Usual fare but well done.
Upscale Greek Pylos
Italian-Cacio e Pepe, Supper, and I Coppi
Had wonderful sandwiches at Parm yesterday in Little Italy, retro-hip, painful noise level, absolutely perfect eggplant parm
Went to Turkish Kitchen tohight better than ever.
Mar 11th, 2012, 03:53 AM
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"That is some view if you can see Manhattan."
Wow, you are so funny. You know what I meant. All of these major monuments are the same: queues too long, price too high. Money and time is better spent elsewhere.
And yes, I know Au Pain Quotidien is a European chain. I know it hardly offers the authentic "New York" food/experience, but it's reliable high-quality food.
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OP, you've listed Battery Park separately. Don't know if that was intentional, but you have to walk through it to get to the ferry for Ellis Island, so you don't need to revisit it separately/later. Plus, they're building on it at the moment (building some sort of aquarium, I think?) so you may find there's not *that* much to see at the moment.
Wow, you are so funny. You know what I meant. All of these major monuments are the same: queues too long, price too high. Money and time is better spent elsewhere.
And yes, I know Au Pain Quotidien is a European chain. I know it hardly offers the authentic "New York" food/experience, but it's reliable high-quality food.
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OP, you've listed Battery Park separately. Don't know if that was intentional, but you have to walk through it to get to the ferry for Ellis Island, so you don't need to revisit it separately/later. Plus, they're building on it at the moment (building some sort of aquarium, I think?) so you may find there's not *that* much to see at the moment.
Mar 11th, 2012, 06:56 AM
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Started a note and lost it when I went to check on a URL.
Your trip topic brought back lots of memories of our last trip to NYC in 10/10. The best thing we did was take a Real New York tour on the first full day. It wasn't cheap, but we saw SO much more than we would have ventured on our own. The guide taught us to use the subway and we were all over Manhattan. A link to tripadvisor reviews is at http://tinyurl.com/3qy7ffm
Your trip topic brought back lots of memories of our last trip to NYC in 10/10. The best thing we did was take a Real New York tour on the first full day. It wasn't cheap, but we saw SO much more than we would have ventured on our own. The guide taught us to use the subway and we were all over Manhattan. A link to tripadvisor reviews is at http://tinyurl.com/3qy7ffm
Mar 11th, 2012, 10:26 AM
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Please substitute this restaurant for Joe's Shanghai in Chinatown.
Joe's has become a bit of a tourist trap and I would not recommend their Manhattan branch.
SHANGHAI CAFE 100 Mott Street, between Canal and Hester Streets.
If you want to order more than the soup dumplings, you might try:
Appetizers:
Kaufu (a traditional Shanghai "cold dish" made from wheater gluten and much better than it sounds!)
Scallion pancakes
Mock duck
Main Courses (to be shared)
Hundred Leaves Knotted Barbecued Beef
Moss Strips of Sole
Bean Curd Skin with Preserved Vegetables
Dong Po Rou (pork shoulder in the Shanghai style; do not order if you do not like fatty meat!)
I live quite close to your hotel. A good casual restaurant with interesting food and noderate-high prices that is within a 10 minute walk is this branch of the David Chang empire. Very cool place, unlike any you are likely to have visited back home. Wide range of dishes--meat, fish, veg, etc etc. You can book online and I would do so unless you want to eat around 6pm. Famous, too, for their sweets, which you can buy to take away at the entrance:
http://www.momofuku.com/restaurants/ma-peche/
I would urge you to give up the place in Little Italy since you want to avoid tourist spots; unfortunately you do have a few of those on your list. Although there are a few people on this forum that like the area, you will find very few food-savvy New Yorkers at the old-line Little Italy restaurants. Not to mention that they are often quite overpriced, considering the quality. Aduchamp has already mentioned a few Italian alternatives and I will add this one,, which is at the edge of Little Italy but is a far cry from the more touristy spots:
http://rubirosanyc.com/
Not far from there; famous for pizza but with a full southern Italian menu:
http://forcellaeatery.com/
In the West Village, a small menu of traditional Tuscan fare; must reserve:
http://www.isodinyc.com/
Wonderful pizza and other Italian dishes; no reservations; run by the most famous bread baker in the city, Jim Leahy; in Chelsea:
http://www.co-pane.com/
Do not get put off that three of these are famous for pizza, as is Pizz Arte; they ahve a range of non-pizza items on their menus; prices are moderate at all I mentioned above, with I Sodi being in the high moderate range with entrees topping out under $30 and that is for their steak.
Joe's has become a bit of a tourist trap and I would not recommend their Manhattan branch.
SHANGHAI CAFE 100 Mott Street, between Canal and Hester Streets.
If you want to order more than the soup dumplings, you might try:
Appetizers:
Kaufu (a traditional Shanghai "cold dish" made from wheater gluten and much better than it sounds!)
Scallion pancakes
Mock duck
Main Courses (to be shared)
Hundred Leaves Knotted Barbecued Beef
Moss Strips of Sole
Bean Curd Skin with Preserved Vegetables
Dong Po Rou (pork shoulder in the Shanghai style; do not order if you do not like fatty meat!)
I live quite close to your hotel. A good casual restaurant with interesting food and noderate-high prices that is within a 10 minute walk is this branch of the David Chang empire. Very cool place, unlike any you are likely to have visited back home. Wide range of dishes--meat, fish, veg, etc etc. You can book online and I would do so unless you want to eat around 6pm. Famous, too, for their sweets, which you can buy to take away at the entrance:
http://www.momofuku.com/restaurants/ma-peche/
I would urge you to give up the place in Little Italy since you want to avoid tourist spots; unfortunately you do have a few of those on your list. Although there are a few people on this forum that like the area, you will find very few food-savvy New Yorkers at the old-line Little Italy restaurants. Not to mention that they are often quite overpriced, considering the quality. Aduchamp has already mentioned a few Italian alternatives and I will add this one,, which is at the edge of Little Italy but is a far cry from the more touristy spots:
http://rubirosanyc.com/
Not far from there; famous for pizza but with a full southern Italian menu:
http://forcellaeatery.com/
In the West Village, a small menu of traditional Tuscan fare; must reserve:
http://www.isodinyc.com/
Wonderful pizza and other Italian dishes; no reservations; run by the most famous bread baker in the city, Jim Leahy; in Chelsea:
http://www.co-pane.com/
Do not get put off that three of these are famous for pizza, as is Pizz Arte; they ahve a range of non-pizza items on their menus; prices are moderate at all I mentioned above, with I Sodi being in the high moderate range with entrees topping out under $30 and that is for their steak.
Mar 11th, 2012, 10:51 AM
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Forgot to mention:
RUBIROSA and MA PECHE offer very good-value lunch specials.
Good site for more lunch deals:
http://midtownlunch.com/
RUBIROSA and MA PECHE offer very good-value lunch specials.
Good site for more lunch deals:
http://midtownlunch.com/
Mar 11th, 2012, 01:15 PM
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Aduchamp1 and Ekscrunchy, Thank you for the advice! I will substitute your suggestions for the touristy ones on my list. We leave tomorrow morning. Can't wait!! I'll keep checking the forum so feel free to add other things that you think of. If I can, I'll try to give updates as we go along. Take care all!
