Best Restaurant week Apiary Menu

Best Restaurant week Apiary Menu

Apiary

60 Third Ave. bet. 10th & 11th St.

Manhattan, NY 10003

• price: $$$
• phone: 212-254-0888 | fax: 212-254-0898
• website: apiarynyc.com
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The delicate-sounding name suits this minimalist East Village restaurant manned by chef Scott Bryan, where the seasonal New American entrées, such as grilled Berkshire pork loin with glazed Tokyo turnips or roasted organic chicken with mascarpone polenta and wild mushrooms, all cost less than $30. And if the décor feels particularly inspired, it’s because luxury furniture designer Ligne Roset created Apiary’s look: clean modern lines supporting plush, wine-hued chairs and chandelier silhouettes.

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Best Restaurant week Ammos Estiatorio - Grand Central

Best Restaurant week Ammos Estiatorio - Grand Central

Ammos Estiatorio - Grand Central

52 Vanderbilt Ave at 45th St

Manhattan, NY

• price: $$$
• phone: 212-922-9999 | fax: 212-922-3544
• website: ammosnewyork.com
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Open design, light woods and weathered stones conjure the sun-drenched atmosphere of the Greek islands at Ammos, which features upscale authentic Greek cuisine from various regions of Greece, emphasizing seafood and incorporating Mediterranean and North African influences. Many of the ingredients—sea salt, dried oregano, capers and caperberries—are imported from Greece, while many of the staples like olive oil, honey and halloumi cheese are produced on a family farm in Cyprus. The wine list, featuring 200 Greek wines, is supplemented by signature cocktails and an extensive list of beers, liquors and spirits.

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• Accessibility InfoAccessibility Info
• Bar/LoungeBar/Lounge
• Good for BusinessGood for Business
• Good for GroupsGood for Groups
• Kid-FriendlyKid-Friendly

• Live MusicLive Music
• NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2011 menuNYC Restaurant Week Summer 2011 menu
• Pre-TheaterPre-Theater
• Private Function Room(s)Private Function Room(s)
• Reservations AcceptedReservations Accepted

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Best Restaurant week Alfama Restaurant

Best Restaurant week Alfama Restaurant

Alfama Restaurant

214 E. 52nd St. (52 St/3 Av)

Manhattan, NY 10022

• price: $$$
• phone: 212-759-5552 | fax: 212-759-5558
• website: alfamanyc.com
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After a 10-year run in the West Village, Alfama has a new address in Midtown East in an elegant, relaxing and convivial space. Partners Tarcísio Costa and Miguel Jerónimo continue their culinary cultural mission of serving Portuguese flavors with a new look and menu. Executive Chef Francsico Rosa takes a fresh approach to the country's cuisine, with modern dishes rooted in Portuguese classics and also inspired by the country's many former colonies from Brazil to Goa to Southern Africa.

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• Bar/LoungeBar/Lounge
• Buyouts Available for GroupsBuyouts Available for Groups
• Multilingual StaffMultilingual Staff
• Off-Premises CateringOff-Premises Catering

• Open Late (After 11pm)Open Late (After 11pm)
• Private Function Room(s)Private Function Room(s)
• Recently OpenedRecently Opened
• Reservations AcceptedReservations Accepted
• Wine ListWine List

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Best Restaurant Week Ajna Bar menu

Best Restaurant Week Ajna Bar menu

Ajna Bar

25 Little W. 12th St. bet. Ninth Ave & Washington St.

Manhattan, NY 10014

• price: $$$$
• phone: 646-416-6002 | fax: 212-859-7378
• website: ajnabarnyc.com
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This Meatpacking District hotspot mixes eclectic Asian décor, hypnotizing music and enchanting food. The chefs offer a cuisine that combines the bold flavors of Asia with delicate French influences, and the menu features the highest-quality ingredients served family style. The lounge is a nightlife mecca for those wishing to see and be seen, and features tunes spun by DJ Timka. This New York City restaurant will surprise and delight with its many offerings.

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• Bar/LoungeBar/Lounge
• Good for GroupsGood for Groups
• Live MusicLive Music
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• Open LateOpen Late
• Reservations AcceptedReservations Accepted
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Best Restaurant week 2 West

Best Restaurants 2 West

2 West

2 West St. bet. Battery and 1st Pl.

Manhattan, NY 10004

• price: $$$
• phone: 212-344-0800 | fax: 212-344-3804
• website: ritzcarlton.com
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 Fun fact: the word "ritzy" sprang from Ritz hotels, and not the other way around. So you would probably expect considerable class from the onsite restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton, and this eatery does not disappoint. The modern American bistro features floor-to-ceiling windows, graceful décor, a colossal wine list and a diverse menu featuring all manner of organic, free-range and other thoughtfully sourced cuisine from land, air and sea.

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Best Restaurants 10 Downing Food & Wine

Best Restaurants 10 Downing Food & Wine

10 Downing Food & Wine

10 Downing St (at Sixth Ave.)

Manhattan, NY 10014

• price: $$$
• phone: 212-255-0300
• website: 10downingnyc.com
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Propelled by a pile of rave reviews (including a two-star rating from The New York Times), this glass-walled eatery has become one of Greenwich Village’s most popular new restaurants. The adulation is deserved: 10 Downing’s Mediterranean-influenced New American menu is extensive enough to warrant multiple visits. For your first meal, bring friends and share the selection of smoked and cured meats as an appetizer (they’re prepared on-premises), then try the striped bass with seckel pear, celery root, black trumpet mushrooms and mint pesto.

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Esperanto on Latin Spring/Summer Dining Guide

Esperanto on Latin Spring Summer Dining Guide

Esperanto

145 Ave C at 9th St

Manhattan, NY 10009

• phone: 212-505-6559
• website: timeout.com
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There"s a raffish, multiculti charm to the whirring overhead fans, live music and chili-pepper garlands at this low-lit spot. The tapas are consistently tasty, with a zingy tuna ceviche leading the way. Tuck into chayote salad with lime dressing, chicken roasted in a banana leaf, Brazilian pork stew or grilled seafood on greens. The cocktails--like an exotic kiwi roska--are fruity and well-mixed, and perhaps the best reason to come. The Latino libations are listed on a bright-yellow wall near the bar, but you"ll get caught in a mosh pit of mojito drinkers before you can squeeze your way to it.

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• Average main course: $14. MC, V

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Citrus Bar & Grill on Latin Spring/Summer Dining Guide

Citrus Bar & Grill on Latin Spring/Summer Dining Guide

Citrus Bar & Grill

320 Amsterdam Ave at 75th St

Manhattan, NY 10023

• phone: 212-595-0500
• website: timeout.com
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Pushing "Latin fare" with "Asian flair" (and a full sushi menu), Citrus brings East forcibly West in a Day-Glo conceptual whirl. White-clad sushi chefs slice and roll before a blazing, backlit sunset-orange screen. Bartenders in sleek black button-downs pour frosty margaritas and mojitos. A waitress serves a crowded table plates of spiced edamame, eel sushi rolls and sizzling quesadillas stuffed with cheese, corn and chili-lime shrimp, plus a molcajete of fresh guacamole. Flavors are vibrant and the presentation is glam; and judging by the joyful revelers, over-the-top creations like spicy tuna-banana rolls with jalapeño ponzu and avocado crema are perfect combinations. Just call it culinary cognitive dissonance, Upper West Side--style.
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• Average main course: $15. AmEx, MC, V

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• Good for Groups
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Shun Lee West is 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants

  Shun Lee West is 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants

Shun Lee West 
43 W. 65th St., 212-595-8895, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Shun Lee is the mother ship of haute Chinese, a classic showplace cherished by Upper West Siders and convenient to Lincoln Center. This branch opened in 1981 while its sister restaurant on the east side of Manhattan, Shun Lee Palace, has been around since 1971.
There's a reason they've lasted: owner Michael Tong gives demanding New Yorkers what they want, including low-carb and salt-free dishes and cheesecake and tiramisu for dessert. Christmas is the busiest day of the year, and for many Jewish families, dinner here on that day is a longtime tradition—last year, Shun Lee accommodated 1,400 Christmas Day diners. House specialties are poached whole fish, barbeque spare ribs and Grand Marnier prawns. The adjoining Shun Lee Café serves a more limited menu.

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Vanessa's Dumpling House is 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants

  Vanessa's Dumpling House is 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants 

Vanessa's Dumpling House
118 Eldridge St., 212-625-8008, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Vanessa's is hipster central, its steady line of customers sporting skullcaps, lip rings and hoodies. The crowd knows that this is where a hot and satisfying dinner can be had for $5. Very good fried dumplings (chive and pork) are four for $1; punch them up with sriracha or soy sauce. Eight boiled vegetable dumplings are $3. Then there are the sesame pancakes, which are actually substantial sandwiches made from puffy bread resembling pizza dough.
Variously stuffed with vegetables, pork or Peking duck, they range in price from $1.50 to $2.25. To drink are bubble teas and smoothies in flavors like green mango or coconut. The bustling ladies behind the counter keep the line moving, and there's camaraderie around the plywood tables. If you're looking for waiter service, go elsewhere—here it's serve yourself and bus your own tray.

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Szechuan Gourmet is 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants

  Szechuan Gourmet  is 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants

Szechuan Gourmet 
244 W. 56th St., 212-265-2226, Midtown West, Manhattan
Broadway tunes play on the sound system in deference to its Theatre District turf. Szechuan Gourmet is a pretty spot with low lighting, tasteful Chinese art and a pebbled wall. Judicious bloggers mainly agree it's the best in the area, attracting stylish Chinese couples and older Caucasian loyalists, many of whom stop in for takeout on the way home.
The menu is enormous, with 160 choices; ordering is done by number. For something superhot, try #45, ma po tofu, creamy cubes of tofu blended with minced pork and tongue-scorching chilies. On the sweeter side is #114, shredded moo shu pork with pancakes, or #107, which is stir-fried beef with scallions and miso. This is the second branch of the popular original on West 39th Street, with an upper level with space to accommodate large parties.

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Peking Duck House is 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants

Peking Duck House is 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants

Peking Duck House 
236 E. 53rd St., 212-759-8260, Midtown East, Manhattan
The name trumpets the main event here—if you want rich, crackly-skinned, carved duck, look no further. Peking Duck House is fancier than many Chinese places, with a coat check booth up front, a wall of fame that includes celebrities like Don Johnson, and waiters in black bow ties and jackets. At both gently lit branches, in Midtown and Chinatown, the menus are similar.

Glossy sesame noodles, Szechuan-style jumbo prawns, spicy scallops with dried bean curd as well as diced chicken with cashew nuts are served in crowd-pleasing portions. But it's really all about the duck, folded into pancakes like a burrito. It's nice to book the front table in the windowed café, and there's also a private party room in back.

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Joe's Shanghai is 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants

  Joe's Shanghai is 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants

Joe's Shanghai 
9 Pell St., 212-233-8888, Chinatown, Manhattan
Does Joe's Shanghai need any more attention? Since the neon-lit Chinatown branch opened in 1996, there's basically been a line out the door every night. More than 1,000 Yelpers have weighed in. And yet it deserves its place in the top 10, if only for the dreamy soup dumplings filled with pork or a combo of pork and crab (actually called "steamed buns" on the menu).

When the waiter approaches the table, it's assumed you'll get an order. Once that's dispatched, compile a list that includes cold sesame noodles, shredded turnip shortcakes (much better than they sound), moo shu pork and crispy yellow fish fingers with dry seaweed. The lion's head (stewed pork balls) is mighty fine, too. Communal tables are ideal for groups, and the festive atmosphere means you might hear "Happy Birthday to You" sung three times during a seating.

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Great N.Y. Noodletown is 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants

  Great N.Y. Noodletown is 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants 

Great N.Y. Noodletown  
28 Bowery, 212-349-0923, Chinatown, Manhattan
So brightly lit it almost hurts your eyes, Great N.Y. Noodletown is nevertheless a cult favorite among off-duty chefs, celebrities and late-night club kids. Ruth Reichl and David Chang are among its notable fans—Chang, especially, for the ginger-scallion sauce he was inspired to re-create at Momofuku Noodle Bar.

Plenty of working people come here day and night, too (it's open until 4am), simply because the poached chicken breast with the aforementioned ginger-scallion sauce, Cantonese-style wide noodles and baby pig on rice are so intoxicating. Other than merciless lighting, the decor consists of ducks hanging on hooks in the window and menus slipped under the glass tabletops. But you don't eat the decorations, and the food lives up to the hype.

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Chinatown Brasserie is 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants

  Chinatown Brasserie is 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants 

Chinatown Brasserie 
380 Lafayette St., 212-533-7000, NoHo, Manhattan
Chinatown Brasserie has a richly detailed interior, ready to serve as a movie set for a Quentin Tarantino bloodbath. The savvy restaurateurs behind it are Josh Pickard and John McDonald of Lure Fishbar fame. Done in bold red and black, with tasseled silk lanterns and a koi pond, it's clubby but not too posh. The welcoming bar and lounge serves happy-hour cocktails and dim sum snacks. Keep it in mind for special-occasion dining or if you need something convenient to The Public Theater. Lamb dumplings, chicken-garlic rolls, steamed pork buns and vegetable spring rolls are excellent ways to start.

The day-and-night dim sum program also allows you to make a whole meal of tidbits. Bigger dishes include Cantonese-style lobster with string beans; sea bass with chili and black beans; and General Tso's chicken with ginger and scallions

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A-Wah Is 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants

A-Wah Is 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants

A-Wah
5 Catherine St., 212-925-8308, Chinatown, Manhattan
A-Wah is a hole-in-the-wall gem that opened in 2010. Robert Sietsema of The Village Voice has already named it the number one Chinese restaurant in the City. Through the windowed kitchen up front, the cooks can be observed expertly hacking up Peking duck to drape atop noodle soups and Hong Kong–style lo mein or layer in a juicy sandwich.

Rice casseroles heaped in stone crocks are crowned with squab or Chinese sausage and minced pork; even take-out and delivery orders come in lidded casserole dishes, not plastic or Styrofoam. Eel, frog, jellyfish and pig's feet are also in stock for the aficionado of such delicacies. The small dining room is modest, with white-and-green-checked tablecloths and a flat-screen TV broadcasting videos of Chinese love songs.

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Restaurant Week - 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants

Restaurant Week - 10 of NYC's Best Chinese Restaurants

Give us your poor, your tired, your hungry masses, and we'll give you the best Chinese food outside of China. Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn each has its own Chinatown stuffed with tantalizing restaurants. Chinese food is rarely pricey, arrives lickety-split and hits the spot. And nothing says Christmas in New York like Chinese food (for Jewish families, at least), since Chinese restaurants are nearly always open.

Throughout the City, you'll find authentic versions of Cantonese, Hunan, Szechuan, Beijing and Hong Kong cuisine, plus cozy Shanghai specialists like Shanghai Asian Manor and Shanghai Asian Cuisine. In our slideshow, we highlight 10 of the most acclaimed, from classic institutions to new kids on the block. Forks are provided if Grandpa hasn't learned to control chopsticks.

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New York City Steak Hauses - Keens Steakhouse .

New York City Steak Hauses -  Keens Steakhouse

 Keens Steakhouse
72 W. 36th St., 212-947-3636, Midtown West, Manhattan
Keens, established in 1885, has seen it all: Teddy Roosevelt, William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, J.P. Morgan and a raid during Prohibition. Its most touching memorabilia is a framed playbill touted as the one Abraham Lincoln was holding when he was shot. Most mind-boggling is the collection of more than 50,000 clay pipes stowed on the ceiling, evidently bequeathed by long-dead tobacco-loving customers. Here's what else you need to know about Keens: the terrific pub menu is roughly half the price of the big-boy restaurant menu of jumbo steaks and mutton chops. The pub-size mutton chop is smaller, sure, but it's plenty thick and not gamy at all (it's really lamb). Prime rib hash is another dish that goes hand in hand with a stiff drink. The barmen are super-knowledgeable and have a dazzling scotch and bourbon collection. Before 8pm, an after-work crowd dominates, but later on, it's all seasoned regulars.

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New York City Steak Hauses - Knickerbocker Bar & Grill

New York City Steak Hauses - Knickerbocker Bar & Grill

Knickerbocker Bar & Grill
33 University Place, 212-228-8490, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Since 1977, this Greenwich Village mainstay has been known for its 28-ounce T-bone and barbecued St. Louis ribs as much as for its swinging jazz. On Friday and Saturday nights, longtime patrons slide into leather booths to hear greats like Ron Carter and Bucky Pizzarelli jamming until 2am. The burnished, wood-detailed dining room offers a home-away-from-home ambience and is adorned with original Al Hirschfeld drawings. Rich caviar pie and the classic Caesar are musts for every table. Night after night, steak after steak, Knickerbocker's is comfortingly consistent. Sides are a bonus—dreamy mashed potatoes and creamed spinach that's not overly creamy.

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New York City Steak Hauses - Michael Jordan's The Steak House N.Y.C.

New York City Steak Hauses - Michael Jordan's The Steak House N.Y.C

Michael Jordan's The Steak House N.Y.C.
Grand Central Terminal, 23 Vanderbilt Ave., 212-655-2300, Midtown East, Manhattan
Michael Jordan's takes a team-oriented approach, with a professional lineup of hosts, bartenders, waiters and sommeliers working together to guide you through a seamless—and captivating—dining experience. This is one of the City's most magnificent perches for people-watching, overlooking Grand Central's beaux-arts concourse. The New York strip, bone-in rib eye and porterhouse for two are juicy inside and charred outside, just the way they should be. New chef Michael Vignola recently launched a farmstead cheeseburger program, working with Murray's to highlight a different seasonal cheese atop the burger every month. (Who knew cheese even had a season?) The wine list is another wonder to behold, stocked with uncommon wines from both Europe and California with markups that don't gouge.

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