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)
http://members.aol.com/cdelsol/
Inexpensive Italian restaurants:
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.
Best ribs at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que on 136th Street and Twelfth Avenue in Harlem
http://www.dinosaurbarbque.com/...
If you don't want to go all the way uptown to Dinosaur, try
RUB (Righteous Urban BBQ) on West 23rd Street in Chelsea
http://menupages.com/restaurantdetails.a...
Gray's Papaya - good hotdogs - $1 each; $2.99 buys 2 hotdogs and a delicious fresh tropical fruit drink. There are a few locations: in Greenwich Village on the corner of 8th Street and Sixth Avenue and on the Upper West Side on the corner of 72nd and Broadway; and, not far from Madison Square Garden, on the corner of 37th Street and Eighth Avenue. There are no seats; you eat at counters that face the street so you can people watch. Open all night - cash only.
http://search.cityguide.aol.com/newyork/...
If you are going with someone else, go to Katz's Deli on the Lower East Side - sandwiches are huge - big enough to share (again, sit in the self service section - the uptown delis will charge you for sharing.) Try a Cuban sandwich - roast pork, ham, cheese, pickles on pressed, toasted Cuban bread (Chelsea-Havana on Eighth Avenue and 20th Street makes a great Cuban - $4 for the small one and $5 for the big one). Try a Vietnamese hero sandwich called a bahn mi - Nicky's Sandwich Shop in the East Village on East 2nd Street and Avenue A -$4 or $5. The East Village has so many really inexpensive ethnic restaurants - you can eat lunch for $5 at one of the Philippine restaurants.
You can get a great burger for $5 at the Burger Place in Le Parker Meridian Hotel on 57th near Sixth Avenue (small, crowded self-service - all they have is burgers, fries, shakes). When you are in the East Village, get an order of fries (that's all they sell) at Pommes Frites on Second Avenue and 7th Street - you'll recognize it, by the giant paper cone of fries outside. These are really good - you can choose different toppings. Chinatown has many good restaurants, most of them are very inexpensive.
Pampano's on 49th and Third - excellent Mexican restaurant specializing in seafood - beautiful place, great food and a $25 prix fixe luncheon.
http://www.modernmexican.com/pampano/men...
Capsouto Freres is a lovely restaurant with excellent food - very reasonably priced - a wonderful place.
http://www.capsoutofreres.com/dinner.html
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Grand Central Stantion has some nice restaurants on the main floor, it's really nice there, Jordan Stake house, Caprini and others
2007-05-06 16:12:45
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The Red Kat near Chelsea I think. Great food and wine and won't break the bank. If you want to break the bank and have oneof the best meals of your life---Daniels on the upper east side
2007-05-07 06:13:15
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answered by alphageek1dp 2
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Mesa Grill or Bar American..both are owned by Foodnetwork Chef Bobby Flay :)
Check out the links I included on the bottom :)
Enjoy your dinner :)
2007-05-06 16:34:33
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answered by cnn360coffeebubbles 5
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Andrews resturant on broadway me and my mum went and found it was the best resturant there... The red lobster looked good aswell but we didnt go in because it looked very expensive... Oh and starbucks are everywhere except all they got is cake and bagels but the vanilla lattes are really nice in the morning! Goodluck!
2007-05-06 16:12:55
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answered by Damien 3
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Carmine's is AWESOME. (Try the frozen apple martinis). Charley O's is good. If you have the time, wander the side streets. Some of the best places to eat are the small local eateries. If you end up in Little Italy, Positano (spelling?) Is awesome!
2007-05-06 16:07:41
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answered by MandaMarie 1
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Try Virgil's BBQ at 152 W 44th St, New York, NY. Their ribs and N. Carolina pulled pork are legendary.
2007-05-06 16:07:13
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answered by Chris 6
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The Plataforma! It's a great place to take your time and get postively stuffed on the greatest food!
2007-05-06 16:12:38
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It depends what you are looking to eat and how much you want to spend. Try A Zagat guide it will break it all down for you, or you can go to Zagats.com. Personally I love the Grammercy tavern http://www.gramercytavern.com/gramercy_tavern.html
2007-05-06 16:11:10
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answered by SheSpawn 3
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A Salt & Battery for fish and chips.... Mmmm
112 Greenwich Avenue
11.30am - 10.30pm 7 Days
2007-05-06 16:05:04
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