Impressive Lunch in NYC this Friday
entertaining out of town friends from a faraway city this weekend in nyc and want to bring them somewhere impressive for lunch that is not too expensive - our first thought was 11 madison which is "fully committed" so any suggestions would be welcome!
also interested in more casual dinner ideas if you're offering...
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16 Comments:
Calle Ocho on the Upper West Side has a great space, and a great Nuevo Latino menu. Rosa Mexicano has several great locations, and fresh guacamole prepared tableside to your desired spice level.
For another type of cuisine, Hangawi offers impressive Korean vegetarian in a very refined space with a shoes-off policy.
City Crab, Craft, and wd~50 are also great spots, with impressive decor and spot-on menus.
For something with a more home-y feel, I love Perilla, Harold Dieterle's restaurant, down on Jones Street. Unfortunately, I think they're only open for dinner and weekend brunch.
lil miss new yorker at 2:53PM on 10/12/09
See if the Gotham can accommodate you -- they have a lunch prix fixe menu.
Carioca at 2:56PM on 10/12/09
i recently had a great lunch at alto in midtown, if you like italian food....
for a lower key option, little owl is open for lunch. that's a nice neighborhoody place.
kristin314 at 2:58PM on 10/12/09
I second Gotham. How about also the Modern? Park Avenue Autumn?
Casual dinner - Lupa if you can get a table, Blue Hill, Blaue Gans...
pickle at 3:13PM on 10/12/09
Jean Georges?
kathryn at 3:38PM on 10/12/09
I second Jean Georges. Amazing food, ambiance and service.
bessfour at 3:51PM on 10/12/09
I love Schiller's Liquor Bar on the Lower East Side. It's a Keith McNally joint that you can actually afford (!) with excellent French-inspired dishes and great artisanal cocktails. I love it for dinner and brunch.
minnarouge at 4:07PM on 10/12/09
How about Milos? Food is fantastic and lunch price fix is a steal.
jlbrach at 4:40PM on 10/12/09
Gramercy Tavern has great afternoon ambience and is my favorite place to spend a fall afternoon. If you can snag the round booth in the front window you'll get some good people watching and warm sunshine and of course, great service a la Danny Meyer. My second choice would be Lupa.
kates at 6:48PM on 10/12/09
Jean-Georges is a great choice, as is Alto. The Inoteca side of Del Posto is also really good value at lunch or dinner.
Ed Levine at 12:59AM on 10/13/09
Park Avenue Autumn.
BrooklynBaker at 9:49AM on 10/13/09
if the group's not too big, i'd suggest market table in the west village...amazing food, cozy interior, great people watching.
billyburgwife at 11:29PM on 10/13/09
These are all such great ideas, thanks everyone! I think we're going to try Jean-Georges, I don't think I would have guessed they had a $28 prix fixe lunch!
mycherrypie at 1:28PM on 10/15/09
See ... All those places sound great. But to me? An impressive in lunch for out of towners would be taking someone to baogette for awesome banh mi, or caracas for some delicious arepas , momomfuku for some ridiculous ramen ... I love NY food for the diverse, delicious, cheap eats you can get. I think it's something that a lot of other cities are missing. And you can top it all off with dessert from the cupcake truck :)
mookie at 1:57PM on 10/15/09
@mycherrypie: How'd it go over?
Adam Kuban at 3:05PM on 10/16/09
@adamKuban So great! After looking at the menus our out of towners decided that Grammercy Tavern was sounded like a winner, we could only get in early, but they loved it. Impressive and not too expensive, so we could still afford to eat at a local nuevo Mexican for dinner!
@mookie agreed, and we did spend a day eating our way from midtown to chinatown. they were as impressed with fried chicken in koreatown, burgers from shake shack and cookies from mmff milk bar as they were with GT. but GT provided the nyc glitz they were looking for as well.
overall, i just feel lucky to have guests (family no less) who like eating around nyc as much as i do!
mycherrypie at 5:00PM on 10/22/09