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I have found very few restaurants in NYC that I can go to and find consistently good food and good service. The restaurants you guys are mentioning are all quite expensive in my opinion, so let me throw out some restaurants that I love and am never disappointed by, and they are all on the upper westside, however, not limited to 96th street I live at 121st so I include up to 125th on the upper westside. With that being said, how about "A" which is french carribean at 106th and Columbus some of the finest food I've ever tasted, sure the atmosphere is way down there, but that adds to the charm, as does the byob policy. How about Silk Road Palace chinese food at 82nd and Amsterdam, it offers unlimited White (trashy, but good enough) wine to customers. Then there's Dinosaur BBQ at 130th, some of the best bbq I've ever had. Pisticci is excellent Italian at La Salle (123rd) and Broadway. Cafe Lalo is excellent for coffee and desserts at 84th between Broadway and Amsterdam. If you have to do high end, has anyone here ever gone to Terrace In The Sky? Sorry, but the upper westside is not a Wasteland, maybe if you constrict it to your strict set of parameters.

Ed.....you need to check out VERE. Look at the bio.....and you might be surprised. Congratulations on your site! Kathy