Foodology
New York restaurant links
Open Table - free, easy reservations
Serious Eats City Guide
New York magazine's Where to Eat in 2009 guide
7 Must-Eat Pizzas in NYC (Slice)
Eater's list of new NYC restaurants
2009 cheap eats guides from New York and Time Out
NY Times 4-star list
Chowhound and eGullet message boards
Eater's Dealfeed
Grub Street
NY Times more recent reviews
Citysearch NY restaurants
Savory New York
Restaurant Week extends to Feb. 28 at most locations
 NYC Restaurant Week, which unofficially ended this past Friday, has officially been extended through Feb. 28 at more than 190 restaurants, NYC & Co, the event’s sponsor, confirmed today.
Restaurants taking part in the extension include 21 Club, Aquavit, Bar Boulud, Blue Water Grill, Cafe Fiorello, Calle Ocho, Capsouto Frères, Carlyle Restaurant, Central Park Boathouse, Cipriani Dolci, David Burke Townhouse, DBGB; Gallagher’s Steakhouse, Gotham Bar & Grill, Kittichai, Le Cirque, Le Colonial, Mesa Grill, Morimoto, Nobu, Oak Room, One if by Land, Two if by Sea, Petrossian, Red Cat, Riingo, Russian Tea Room, Shun Lee Palace, Spice Market, Telepan, Tocqueville and Tribeca Grill.
The Winter Restaurant Week offer gets you a three-course lunch for $24.07 or dinner for $35. Tax, tip and drinks are not included in that price. Saturdays and Feb. 14 are excluded from the deal; only some take part on Sundays. In addition, not all restaurants offer the deal at both lunch and dinner.
Image source: NYC & Co.
Earlier:
Restaurant Week: Modern, Le Cirque, Del Posto, Cipriani
Restaurant weeks for Northeast road-trippers
February 8, 2010 11:02 AM Comments (0)
. . . . . . . . . . .
Andaz Wall Street opens with rooms from $220
The Andaz Wall Street officially opens for business today, offering boutique-style rooms from $220 as well as a Hudson Valley-sourced restaurant, a bar that emphasizes Pullman-style mixed-at-your-table cocktails and a spa that will let you order services in quick 15-minute increments for $35.
 Without reeking of dollar signs, the David Rockwell-designed hotel evokes the neighborhood’s monied history in subtle ways: multi-sized bamboo panels in the lobby match the old lock boxes of Wall Street; arching woodcuts in the ceiling evoke watermark details from the dollar bill; and lamps in the restaurant resemble clusters of pearls (a la neighboring Pearl Street, originally named for the abundance of oyster shells left by Lenape Indians, according to “Naming New York”.)
The second-floor restaurant, Wall & Water, opens under the helm of Maximo Lopez who comes from the Park Hyatt Buenos Aires. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, the menu follows a “farm to table” concept drawing from relationships with Hudson Valley growers.
Bar Seven Five opens weekdays at 4 p.m. (when the market closes) and emphasizes Prohibition-style cocktails served in an open atmosphere meant to evoke a fancy living room rather than a bar.
The hotel rooms reach as high as the 17th floor (with condos on the upper floors.) As the hotel emerges from its soft opening, just over 50 rooms are open. All 253 rooms should be open soon, hotel spokeswoman Rachel Harrison told NewYorkology during a tour of the property last week.
Read the rest of this entry
January 25, 2010 2:33 PM Comments (0)
. . . . . . . . . . .
Soup truck schedule for Winter Restaurant Week
 It should come as no surprise that Manhattan would take a soup line to all new levels.
As part of Winter Restaurant Week, NYC this year plans to back up the truck - and park in three Manhattan locations to serve gourmet soup for $6, with part of the proceeds going to Haiti relief efforts.
The soup truck’s locations:
Jan. 25 to 29: Broadway between 50th and 51st streets
Feb. 1 to 3: Fifth Avenue between 18th and 19th streets
Feb. 4 and 5: Greenwich Street between Warren and Murray streets
On those days, the truck will open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. selling two or three soups each day. Each serving will come with bread from Tom Cat Bakery.
Thus far, only the Midtown menu has been posted:
Monday, January 25
Corn, crab and chorizo soup from Delmonico’s Steakhouse
Tomato and fennel soup from Tribeca Grill
Mexhattan clam chowder from Dos Caminos Park
Read the rest of this entry
January 21, 2010 9:26 AM Comments (0)
. . . . . . . . . . .
Valentines cupcakes at Ritz-Carlton weekends in Feb.
 For the month of February, the Ritz-Carlton Central-Park will serve a tasteful indulgence: Valentine Cupcake Tea.
The flight of five mini-cupcakes will come with a choice of tea, hot chocolate or (for an extra $18,) a glass of Veuve Clicquot or Moet Imperial.
The Ritz-Carlton Valentines Cupcake Tea Menu:
Chocolate Truffle True Love
Decadent Chocolate Cake, Rich Valrhona Buttercream
Topped with a Hand Rolled Chocolate Truffle
Spice it Up Cinnamon
Moist Cinnamon Spice Cake, Freshly Whipped Vanilla Cream
Topped with Cinnamon Candies
Be Mine Cherry Almond
Fluffy Almond Cake, Cherry Preserves Filling, Amaretto Frosting
Topped with Slivered Almonds
Roses are Red Velvet
Rich Red Velvet Cupcake, Traditional Cream Cheese Frosting
Topped with Valentine Sprinkles and Chocolates
Passion Fruit
Tahitian Vanilla Bean Cupcake, Passion Fruit Filling,
Topped with Vanilla Cream and Lightly Toasted Coconut
The $28 cupcake tea will be available at the hotel’s Star Lounge every weekend in February from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with extra seating on Valentine’s Day. Reservations are required: (212) 521-6125.
The Ritz-Carlton is located at 50 Central Park South, map.
The all-you-can-eat chocolate and champagne Chocolate Bar served downtown in past years at the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park will not happen in 2010, but may return in the future, according to Jennifer Oberstein, Area Director of Public Relations for Ritz-Carlton.
Image source: Ritz-Carlton.
January 14, 2010 11:20 AM Comments (1)
. . . . . . . . . . .
Restaurant Week: Modern, Le Cirque, Del Posto, Cipriani
Winter Restaurant Week reservations unofficially opened today as the event’s organizer, NYC & Co., posted the list via Twitter.
 Restaurant Week participants inlcude 21 Club, Cafe Boulud, Central Park Boathouose, Cipriani Wall Street, Craftbar, Del Posto, DB Bistro Moderne, Ed’s Chowder House, Esca, Gotham Bar & Grill, Kittichai, Le Cirque, Lupa, Lure, Mercer Kichen, Mesa Grill, The Modern, Morimoto, Nobu, Nougatine at Jean Georges, The Oak Room at The Plaza, Perry St, Petrossian, Red Cat, Riingo, River Cafe, Rock Center Cafe, Russian Tea Room, Sea Grill, Shun Lee, Spice Market, Tabla, Telepan, Tocqueville Restaurant , Tribeca Grill, Water Club, Terrace in the Sky and Water’s Edge.
During Winter Restaurant Week, Jan. 25 through Feb. 7, three-course meals will be sold for $24.07 for lunch and $35 at dinner. The prix-fixe price does not include beverages, tax or tip. It’s suspended on Saturdays and only some restaurants partake on Sundays.
Image source: NYC & Co.
Earlier: Restaurant weeks for Northeast road-trippers
2010 Winter Restaurant Week set for Jan. 25 to Feb. 7
January 11, 2010 11:11 AM Comments (0)
. . . . . . . . . . .
Restaurant weeks for Northeast road-trippers
New York City is gearing up for Winter Restaurant Week, but it’s certainly not the only fork in the roadmap. Here’s a roundup of other restaurant weeks in the Northeast region with confirmed dates for 2010:
Washington DC Winter Restaurant Week - Jan. 11 - 17
Alexandria Restaurant Week - Jan. 15 - 24
Center City Philadelphia Restaurant Week - Jan. 17 - 29
Schenectady Restaurant Week - Jan. 19 - 23
Baltimore Restaurant Week - Jan. 22 - Feb. 7
Montclair Restaurant Week - Jan. 25 - Feb. 7
Hudson (N.J.) Restaurant Week - Feb 1 - 12
Annapolis Restaurant Week - Feb. 15 - 21
Syracuse Downtown Dining Week - Feb. 15 - 27
Stamford Downtown Restaurant Week - Feb. 21 - March 7
Atlantic City Restaurant Week - Feb. 28 - March 6
Maine Restaurant Week - March 1 - 10
Boston Restaurant Week - March 14 - 26
Hudson Valley Restaurant Week - March 15 - 28
Hamptons Restaurant Week - March 21 - 28
Providence Restaurant Weeks - July 11 - 24
Long Island Restaurant Week - Nov. 7 - 14
January 5, 2010 1:29 PM Comments (0)
. . . . . . . . . . .
NYC museums, restaurants, zoos open New Year's Day
 Although Jan. 1 is a holiday, many museums, restaurants, ice rinks, zoos clubs and other venues remain open on New Year’s Day in New York City. Here’s the list:
Special New Year’s Day events
Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year’s Day swim - 1 p.m.
Salute to Vienna World’s Greatest New Year’s Concert! - 2:30 p.m at Lincoln Center
The Poetry Project presents the The 36th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading at St. Mark’s on the Bowery – from 2 p.m.
Free 16th Annual Bowery Poetry Club marathon poetry reading - noon
ESPN Zone’s York’s 3rd Annual Ultimate Couch Potato Competition - 11 a.m.
Museums
Museum of Modern Art - 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Guggenheim Museum - 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
American Museum of Natural History - 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
New-York Historical Society - 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Read the rest of this entry
December 23, 2009 11:06 AM Comments (0)
. . . . . . . . . . .
Ritz-Carlton dishes holiday cupcakes for posh tea time
 As if you needed another reason to indulge, the Ritz-Carlton on Central Park has cooked up a Ho Ho Holiday Cupcake Tea.
The special tea time is offered Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Dec. 27.
The price is $28 per person for five petite cupcakes and a choice of tea, hot chocolate, milk or another non-alcoholic beverage. Reservations are required.
The flavors:
Rudolph’s Red Velvet
Rich red velvet cupcake, traditional cream cheese frosting
“The Big Apple”
Granny Smith apple cupcake, fresh whipped cream, sugar and spice crumble, topped with caramel sauce
Santa’s S’Mores
Fluffy devil’s food cupcake, marshmallow frosting, graham cracker crumbs, Hershey’s milk chocolate
The Great Pumpkin
Spiced pumpkin cupcake, bittersweet chocolate chips topped with luscious Vermont maple frosting
Holiday Candy Explosion
Tahitian vanilla bean confetti cupcake, vanilla buttercream, topped with holiday candy
Image source: Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park
December 1, 2009 9:33 AM Comments (0)
. . . . . . . . . . .
2010 Winter Restaurant Week set for Jan. 25 to Feb. 7
NYC Winter Restaurant Week will return Jan. 25 through Feb. 7 with prices frozen at the same rate as in recent years: $24.07 for three-course prix-fixe lunches and $35 for three-course prix-fixe dinners.
The deal does not include beverages, tax or tip. It’s suspended on Saturdays and only some restaurants partake on Sundays.
The dates were announced today by NYC & Co. the city’s official tourism marketing group, but participating restaurants have not yet been named.
Update: Reservations open Jan. 12.
Update as of Jan. 11: Restaurant Week reservations are now open.
Earlier: Restaurant Week deals extended through Labor Day
November 13, 2009 11:30 AM Comments (0)
. . . . . . . . . . .
Museums, zoos, ice rinks, clubs open Thanksgiving Day
Update: See what’s open Christmas Day 2009 in NYC.
In case you find yourself in New York City on Nov. 26, 2009 looking for something to do besides share a bird with your beloved family members, here are some places that will be open on Thanksgiving Day in NYC:
The Macy’s 83nd Thanksgiving Day Parade will begin at 9 a.m. at 77th Street and Central Park West. The new route this year starts out the same, traveling south down Central Park West to Columbus Circle. But this year it will skip Broadway,and instead turn onto Central Park South and then south on 7th Avenue. Once it reaches, 42nd Street, the parade will head east until it reaches Bryant Park at 6th Avenue. The parade will continue south on 6th (Avenue of the Americas) until it reaches 34th Street, where it will turn towards Macy’s at Herald Square.
Restaurants open Thanksgiving Day
Radio City Christmas Spectacular - performances at 2, 5 and 8 p.m.
Cirque du Soleil’s “Wintuk” at Madison Square Garden - performances at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Broadway Thanksgiving Week schedule includes Thanksgiving Day performances of “Hamlet” at 7:30 p.m. as well as “Chicago,” “Oleanna,” “Phantom of the Opera” “West Side Story” and “White Christmas” at 8 p.m.
Big Apple Circus - 2 p.m. performance
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island - 9 a.m. - 5:15 p.m. (Although tickets to the statue’s crown are sold out through 2009, you can still reserve free pedestal/museum access with your ferry tickets.)
Empire State Building open from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. (Last elevator goes up at 1:15 a.m.)
Rockefeller Center’s Top of the Rock open from 8 a.m. to midnight (Last elevator goes up at 11 p.m.)
Socrates Sculpture Park - 10 a.m. to sunset
Discovery’s Times Square Exhibition featuring “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” and “DaVinci’s Workshop” from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Read the rest of this entry
November 9, 2009 10:56 PM Comments (0)
. . . . . . . . . . .
®Copyright 2004 - 2010, All Rights Reserved
|
