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Danube
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| Heck, I�d eat here if only for the plates! One features Klimtian gold curlicues dabbed on bone-white china, while another of pressed glass looks like the wake of a powerboat on an Alpine lake.... |
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Gramercy Tavern
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The kitchen's seasonal New American bent makes for earthy, satifsying fare with an undercurrent of elegance. Smoked paprika-rubbed quail atop buttery polenta arrives with a marvelous raisin-mustard... |
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107 West Restaurant
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107 West is a great success story in the neighborhood. Delivery is prompt, the food is consistently good, and the menu is just varied enough to keep satisfying your delivery jones. In fact, the fri... |
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Ithaka
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This is not like so many NY (and especially, Boston!)"Greek" restaurants -- Zorba music, thick oil-dripping moussaka, the same stained prints of the Greek islands on the walls...but not I... |
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Galaxy Global Eatery
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"The Galaxy Global Eatery" has revolutionized hemp cuisine being recognized in most major culinary magazines, the TV Food Network, EXTRA, CNN, CNBC and as far away as Charles Osgood&O... |
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Rue des Crepes
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| The little dining room resembles a cobblestone Left Bank street by way of Disney World, complete with street signs and other contrived cues. But it matters little, because the crepes are very good. S... |
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Cafe Boulud
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Although longtime chef Andrew Carmellini recently departed, this remains the most intimate restaurant in the continually expanding Daniel Boulud empire, and arguably the most enjoyable. The multi-s... |
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Buddakan
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Buddakan is the second wave of Philadelphia restaurateur Stephen Starr (Morimoto)'s well-orchestrated shock-and-awe campaign to take culinary Manhattan. The centerpiece is the "Chinoiserie,&qu... |
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Babbo
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The most exciting Italian restaurant in town serves food you'll never find in Little Italy. A staff as smart as you want your kids to be helps. So do two uncomplicated floors suffused in honeyed am... |
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Spice Market
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Considering its location (in the middle of meatpacking-district hell), its ridiculous size (as big as a bus depot), and its strange hothouse décor (like the palace of an arriviste Balinese d... |
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Balthazar
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Schiller's may be Keith McNally's newest nightlife nexus, but Balthazar is his masterpiece, an evocation of a Paris brasserie that outglows anything within Brie-tossing distance of the Seine. Yet f... |
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Blue Water Grill
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Stephen Hanson's downtown precursor to Atlantic Grill (Upper East Side) and Ocean Grill (Upper West Side) is far more of a scene than either of its siblings. In a converted bank on Union Square, th... |
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Gotham Bar and Grill
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A room that once looked like a stage set for On the Town has weathered and darkened and grown more appealingly familiar with time. And negotiating the vertical food is no longer a struggle: You jus... |
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Per Se
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The French Laundry is widely touted as the best restaurant in America, and Per Se seems to have been conceived, rather self-consciously, as its august big-city sibling. The rooms, which look out ac... |
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Dirty Bird To-Go
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The husband-and-wife chef team of Slade Rushing and Allison Vines-Rushing were last seen in New York cooking at Jack's Luxury Oyster Bar before decamping to Louisiana to open the Longbranch. Now th... |
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Craftsteak
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Despite his various achievements, including four restaurants and a burgeoning sandwich-shop empire, Tom Colicchio may forever be known as the man who made hen-of-the-woods a household name. At Craf... |
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