New York Restaurants Porter House, Daniel, Blue Hill, Locanda Verde, Balthazar
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Restaurants in New York City
Eating out is a way of life in New York, from the famous diner breakfasts and brunches, to some of the finest restaurant experiences in the world. Even grabbing a hotdog from a street vendor feels somewhat iconic. An eating out guide for New York is an encyclopaedic task in itself, but here are some examples.
Visitors should make a reservation well in advance to avoid disappointment. It is not unreasonable for patrons to call for a table in the trendiest eating places a few months in advance. Sales tax of 8.375% is automatically added to the bill but service charges are only standard for large groups.
The New York restaurants have been split into three price categories:
Expensive (over $65)
Moderate ($35 to $65)
Cheap (up to $35)
These prices include starter, main course and dessert. Not included is tax and a customary tip of 15-20%.
Porter House New York
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Price: Expensive
Rating: 4
Cuisine: Grillhouse
Come for the views (of Central Park), stay for the food. This is about as good as it gets for carnivores, with steaks done to absolute perfection, including a subtle chilli-rubbed Rib Eye. In case that all sounds too healthy, there's also butter-poached lobster for some wild indulgence. Chef Michael Lomonaco oversees the meat feast.
Address: 10 Columbus Circle, Manhattan, New York, New York State, United States
Daniel
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Price: Expensive
Rating: 5
Cuisine: French
Named after renowned chef-owner Daniel Bolud, this restaurant consistently ranks among the city's most opulent venues for French fare. With an accent on seasonal ingredients, culinary masterpieces have included Louisiana crayfish with Iberico ham, Quebecois suckling pig and whole-baked American red snapper in a salt crust. Jacket and tie are required for gentlemen.
Address: 60 East 65th Street (between Park and Madison Avenues), New York, New York State, United States
Blue Hill
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Price: Expensive
Rating: 5
Cuisine: Modern American
One of New York's best farm-to-table restaurants, Blue Hill serves beautifully prepared dishes that showcase top produce from biodynamic farms of the Northeast. Dishes aren't overly complex and let the delectable ingredients speak for themselves - Berskshire pork, perfectly ripe vegetables, Hudson Valley duck and decadent chocolate bread pudding. Top-notch service and elegant ambience add to the experience.
Address: 75 Washington Place, New York City, New York State, United States
Locanda Verde
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Price: Moderate
Rating: 4
Cuisine: Italian
Robert de Niro is famously a part-owner of this rustic style Italian eatery in the TriBeCa district. Celebrated chef Andrew Carmellini brings the classics to a town that knows its Italian food. Fennel-glazed duck with sunchokes and pioppini mushrooms appears on the menu along with simpler fare such as 'My Grandmother's Ravioli'. The atmosphere is casually stylish and relatively affordable.
Address: 377 Greenwich Street, New York, New York State, United States
Balthazar
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Price: Moderate
Rating: 4
Cuisine: French
A slice of Paris in Manhattan, this is chef Keith McNally's latest New York venture. It has won plaudits aplenty for its authenticity, and remains a haven of sophistication and suave for Manhattan's bon viveurs. French classics, such as duck confit, salade Niçoise and bouillabaisse (the speciality on Friday) are superb. It's also a great place to come for weekend brunch.
Address: 80 Spring Street, New York, New York State, United States
Eataly
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Price: Moderate
Rating: 4
Cuisine: Italian
On the edge of Madison Square Park, you'll find Eataly, a sprawling Italian food emporium with dining spaces for lovers of antipasti, cheese, wine, seafood and much more. Up top, is La Birreria, a rooftop restaurant and beer garden, where you can linger over a hearty meal (market-fresh fish, beer-braised pork shoulder), matched by tasty microbrews.
Address: 200 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York State, United States
Barney Greengrass
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Price: Cheap
Rating: 4
Cuisine: Jewish
Going strong for over 100 years, this traditional Jewish deli serves all the Kosher classics, including cheese blintzes, caviar and loads of smoked fish. Sturgeon and smoked salmon are superb here, and best paired with a bagel and cream cheese. The ambiance at this Upper West Side haunt is casual, and makes a great start to the day, New York Times in hand.
Address: 541 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, New York State, United States
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New York Restaurants Porter House, Daniel, Blue Hill, Locanda Verde, Balthazar
Fraunces Tavern, NYC February 28, 2017
Fraunces Tavern is located in Southern Manhattan and is where George Washington bid farewell to his troops in 1783.
Renovated historic tavern with a George Washington link offering pub eats & live music on weekends.
Wikipedia article:
Fraunces Tavern is a landmark museum and restaurant in New York City, situated at 54 Pearl Street at the corner of Broad Street. The location played a prominent role in history before, during and after the American Revolution, serving as a headquarters for George Washington, a venue for peace negotiations with the British, and housing federal offices in the Early Republic. It has been owned by Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York Inc. since 1904, which carried out a major conjectural reconstruction, and claim it is Manhattan's oldest surviving building. The museum interprets the building and its history, along with varied exhibitions of art and artifacts.[4] The tavern is a tourist site and a part of the American Whiskey Trail and the New York Freedom Trail.[5][6]
Early history
Pre-Revolution history
New York Mayor Stephanus van Cortlandt built his home in 1671 on the site, but retired to his manor on the Hudson River and gave the property in 1700 to his son-in-law, Etienne Stephen DeLancey, a French Huguenot who had married Van Cortlandt's daughter, Anne. The DeLancey family contended with the Livingston family for leadership of the Province of New York.
DeLancey built the current building as a house in 1719. The small yellow bricks used in its construction were imported from the Dutch Republic and the sizable mansion ranked highly in the province for its quality.[7] His heirs sold the building in 1762 to Samuel Fraunces who converted the home into the popular tavern, first named the Queen's Head.
Before the American Revolution, the building was one of the meeting places of the secret society, the Sons of Liberty. During the tea crisis caused by the British Parliament's passage of the Tea Act of 1765, the patriots forced a British naval captain who tried to bring tea to New York to give a public apology at the building.[citation needed] The patriots, disguised as American Indians (like those of the subsequent Boston Tea Party), then dumped the ship's tea cargo into New York Harbor.
In 1768, the New York Chamber of Commerce was founded by a meeting in the building.[8]
Revolution
In August 1775, Americans took possession of cannons from the artillery battery at the southern point of Manhattan and fired on HMS Asia. The British Royal Navy ship retaliated by firing a 32-gun broadside on the city, sending a cannonball through the roof of the building.
When the war was all but won, the building was the site of British-American Board of Inquiry meetings, which negotiated to ensure to American leaders that no American property (meaning former slaves who were emancipated by the British for their military service) be allowed to leave with British troops. Board members reviewed the evidence and testimonies that were given by freed slaves every Wednesday from April to November, 1783, and British representatives were successful in ensuring that almost all of the loyalist blacks of New York maintained their liberty and could be evacuated with the Redcoats when they left if so desired.[9]
Washington's farewell to his officers
Washington's Farewell to His Officers
Engraving after painting by Alonzo Chappel
Date: December 4, 1783
Location: Fraunces Tavern, Broad and Pearl Streets, New York Town
After British troops evacuated New York on Nov. 25th, the tavern hosted a week later, an elaborate turtle feast dinner on December 4, 1783, in the building's Long Room for U.S. Gen. George Washington where he bade farewell to his officers of the Continental Army by saying [w]ith a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. As he later asked to take each one of his officers by the hand for a personal word.[10][11][12]
Post-Revolution
In January 1785, New York City became the seat of the Confederation Congress, the nation's central government under the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. The departments of Foreign Affairs, Finance and War had their offices at Fraunces Tavern.
With the ratification of the United States Constitution in March 1789, the Confederation Congress's departments became federal departments, and New York City became the first official national capital. The inauguration of George Washington as first President of the United States took place in April 1789. Under the July 1789 Residence Act, Congress moved the national capital to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a 10-year period, while the permanent national capital was un