what a reasonably priced excellent place to at at in New York?

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i'll be here on march8

Answer 1

I could narrow this down if you say what you do and don't like, but here are some excellent places:

My favorite Mexican restaurant is Del Valle on Tenth Avenue and 48th Street. The cooking style is from Puebla, so there are some unusual dishes (try the chicken pipian when they have it - the sauce is made from toasted pumpkin seeds). It's very inexpensive, very clean and very, very good. The most expensive dish there is the seafood soup (great) - that's $14. They have a number of shrimp dishes - very generous portions - comes with rice and beans or salad and homemade tortillas - $11. Most appetizers are $2 to $3. The waitresses are very pleasant, but service there is slow.

Costa del Sol on Ninth Avenue and 50th Street is Spanish, not Mexican. Good food, great price and excellent service.
For $25, you get a complete dinner with a ton of choices - AND IT's GOOD! You get a choice of soup or salad - (I never order salad when there's another choice, so I can't comment). My favorite soup is the Caldo Gallego - from Galecia Spain - a delicious hearty soup with bacon, chorizo sausage, white beans, kale and other vegetables; you can also order the cold gazpacho or a chicken soup with noodles. You have a choice of more than twenty entrees - at least six different shrimp dishes - my favorites are the very lightly floured shrimp with wine sauce and the garlic shrimp - HUGE portions. You can also order salmon, paella, a whole lobster with butter sauce, various chicken dishes, mixed seafoods, veal., pork chops. These come with saffron rice and string beans - large platters on the table for everyone. You also get dessert and coffee - the cheesecake is good, but you can have flan or rice pudding or icecream. As if all this food weren't enough of a bargain, if two of you order this three course dinner, you can get a bottle of red or white wine for only $6 more ($3 each)
http://members.aol.com/cdelsol/...

Todai (East 32nd and Madison) is an all-you-can eat buffet - lots more than sushi, made to order stir fries, soups, seafoods, etc.
http://www.todai.com/menu_hotentresse.ht...

Le Madeleine on the corner of 43rd and Ninth serves a good three course prix fixe dinner for $32.- Even better value - 3 course dinner after 8pm - $24.
http://www.lemadeleine.com/dinner.htm#...

West 46th Street between 8th and 8th Avenue (very close to Times Square) has so many restaurants, the block is known as "Restaurant Row". There are at least five Italian restaurants.
One I highly recommend is Becco - it's owned by the tv chef and cookbook author, Lidia Bastianich and her son. They serve a special lunch for about $18 -the dinner is about $25 -three pastas (they change every day) - all you can eat and a delicious appetizer of either a Caesar salad or a platter of mixed seafood with grilled vegetables. It gets crowded - you should make a reservation.

Pomaire is one of my favorites - it's New York's only Chilean restaurant - excellent fresh fish, wonderful bread, charming waiters and a great wine cellar.
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Brazil, Brazil - a really fun place - you have different options - cold salad bar about $10, cold salad bar and hot buffet about $14 and salad bar, hot buffet and MEATS - about $18. If you get the all you can eat meat, the waiters come by with huge skewers of steak, roasts, chickens, spare ribs - if you want some, you turn the flag to green, if you don't want it or are taking a rest, you turn your flag to red. You can also order something a la carte here. Desserts and beverages are not included in the price.

http://www.brazilbrazilnyc.com/enter.htm...

There is a bar, the Joshua Tree, that serves a very good lobster with baked potato and corn for $15.

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If you like Spanish food (from Spain, not Mexico - it's an entirely different cuisine), Costa del Sol on 50th Street and Ninth Avenue is wonderful - for $25, you get a complete dinner with a ton of choices - AND IT's GOOD! You get a choice of soup or salad - (I never order salad when there's another choice, so I can't comment). My favorite soup is the Caldo Gallego - from Galecia Spain - a delicious hearty soup with bacon, chorizo sausage, white beans, kale and other vegetables; you can also order the cold gazpacho or a chicken soup with noodles. You have a choice of more than twenty entrees - at least six different shrimp dishes - my favorites are the very lightly floured shrimp with wine sauce and the garlic shrimp - HUGE portions. You can also order salmon, paella, a whole lobster with butter sauce, various chicken dishes, mixed seafoods, veal., pork chops. These come with saffron rice and string beans - large platters on the table for everyone. You also get dessert and coffee - the cheesecake is good, but you can have flan or rice pudding or icecream. As if all this food weren't enough of a bargain, if two of you order this three course dinner, you can get a bottle of red or white wine for only $6 more ($3 each)

Huge impressive all-you-can eat Japanese/Sushi buffet on 32nd and Madison

menu_hot entreesA restaurant with the real "flavor" of New York is Katz's Deli on Houston Street near Ludlow on the Lower East Side interesting area to walk through (note: we prounounce this Howz' ton not like the Texas city). There are two areas at Katz's - one is self-service and one is waiter service. Definitely sit in self-service - you go up to the counter, order your sandwich and, tip the counterman a dollar or two. He, then, will put much more meat in your sandwich than a waiter will bring you. (A few years ago several reporters went to Katz's with a small scale - some sat in waiter service and some sat in self service - all the self service sandwiches had at least a quarter of a pound more meat).
To add to the New York experience, drink a cream soda or celery tonic with your meal. Sandwiches are big enough to share - get an order of fries and you're all set. My favorite there is tongue and corned beef on a club roll.
Read about Katz's

http://www.katzdeli.com/

Near Union Square: Via Emilia on East 21st Street and Park Avenue. Appetizers are unusual and outstanding - gnocco fritto - large platter of Italian coldcuts served with delicious little fritters; tigelle (not served in too many places) hot biscuits with proscuitto and melted cheese; wonderful soups, good pastas, fish is always fresh. Some desserts are outstanding.
http://www.viaemilianyc.net/dinner.html...

In the West Village: Da Andrea on Hudson Street and West 11th Street.
Excellent pastas - I especially love their clam sauce, they, too, make tigelle, can get very crowded on weekends.
http://www.biassanot.com/

In the Village: Sapore on Greenwich Avenue and Perry Street - Lunch here has to be the biggest bargain in New York - $6 for soup or salad, coffee and a main dish, including good pastas - $3.00 more and you can have excellent fried calamari or grilled salmon as an entree. This is a very small cramped restaurant, but, in warm weather, there's lots of pleasant outdoor seating.

I eat at these restaurants regularly and they are very good.

Greenwich Village:
AOC Bedford (at Downing Street) excellent food and service
http://www.aocbedford.com/new/sections/h...

Great Cuban food at Little Havana on Cornelia and Bleecker
Charming wait staff
http://www.littlehavananyc.com/...

Gene's Italian on West 11th off Sixth Avenue - very good, especially the seafoods and desserts

Most of the restaurants in Chinatown are very inexpensive. The East Village has so many inexpensive ethnic restaurants. Start out at 14th Street and walk down Second Avenue to about 1st Street and if you haven't chosen a restaurant yet, walk back up to 14th Street on First Avenue. Be adventurous and try something completely new.

And, you will have to try New York's biggest bargain dinner - Gray's Papaya - there's one on Eighth Street and Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, there's one on 72nd and Broadway on the upper West Side - for $2.99 you get two hot dogs (great hot dogs) and a tropical juice drink. They are always crowded and you eat standing at a counter, but it's soooo good.

Also try a Vietnamese hero sandwich - they are called Bahn Mi - you can get an excellent one at Nicky's at 150 East 2nd Street in the East Village - very cheap and very filling

Answer 2

If you mean to "eat at in New York", some suggestions (reviews) below:
Olives at the W
Artisanal
L'Ecole