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Sunday, September 22, 2002
RESTAURANT ROW.
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Restaurant Row is the block of 46th Street between 8th Avenue and 9th Avenue in Manhattan. It includes, I have heard it said, 26 restaurants. I have been to perhaps half of them, and they have almost all been very good, and they have all been an excellent value for the price.
I'm always surprised by how many locals have never heard of New York's Restaurant Row, and I don't think very many tourists are aware of it. I was searching around, trying to find a site to link to for this article, and there is absolutely nothing out there. So here's a partial and possibly out of date list of the restaurants on Restaurant Row, along with the kind of food they serve.
B. Smith's (global eclectic)
Bangkok (Thai)
Barbetta (Italian)
Becco (Italian)
Broadway Joe (steakhouse)
Clay Oven (Indian)
Da Rosina (Italian)
Danny's Grand Sea Palace (seafood / steak / Thai).
Firebird (Russian)
Hourglass Tavern (American / continental)
Hunan Chef (Chinese)
Joe Allen (American)
Joshua Tree (American)
La Rivista (Italian)
La Stanze Verde (Italian)
Lattanzi (Italian)
Le Beaujolais (French)
Le Rivage (French)
Les Sans Culottes (French)
Lofti's (Moroccan)
Marlowe (American)
Meson Sevilla (Spanish / Italian)
O'Flaherty's (Irish)
Orso (Italian)
Pomaire (Chilean)
Swing 46 (American / Continental)
So, I'm pretty sure some of those are gone, and I stuck on some newer ones that I know are there. And I know there's a Japanese one (with no sushi) near the NW corner, but I forget the name. But this should be a good starting point for getting an idea of the street. Anyway, the correct way to pick a Restaurant Row restaurant is not to pick it off a list, but to walk along it, and look at the menus and the crowds and the specials, and see which restaurant calls you inside. I've very rarely eaten at a restaurant there that wasn't exceptionally good, and the prices are usually far less than you'd expect, considering how nice the restaurants are there. If you walk in by 7, and tell them you have a Broadway show at 8, they are invariably prepared to hear that information, and to get you out of there in plenty of time for your show. It's a great resource here in midtown, and as often as I go there, it isn't often enough.
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