Serves some of the best Pizza and Italian on Arthur Avenue. Try the La San Matteo or the Polpettine Polenta E Caprino. The service here is amazing.
This causal restaurant at the northern tip of Manhattan puts a twist on comfort-food classics. Enjoy the lobster macaroni & cheese ($16) on tables from Nuovo Vesuvio, a restaurant on "The Sopranos." Read more.
Vegetables are the new meat at this elegant spot for shojin Buddhist cuisine like persimmon with sesame cream and fragrant rice balls called ohagi. Featured in Where to Eat 2011! Read more.
There's always an interesting and flavorful tofu treatment on the menu. Great for vegetarians and carnivores alike.
Pizzas are nicely singed. Also good: arugula with bresaola, pickled pig’s tongue, mackerel with lemon jelly, wood-roasted chicken, wood-roasted Berkshire pork chop. Read more.
Bitter greens salad with buttermilk dressing, the chop, and the Guiness chocolate cake. Say no more
If the wait's long, put your name on the list and hit its sister wine bar. Once the food arrives, though, nothing else will matter. Guard your plate - spaghetti with clams is irresistably delicious!
Recommended: Soups, steamed mussels, roasted halibut, pickled artichokes, hanger steak, roast chicken or game hen, chocolate pine nut tart. Read more.
The best place to remember why you love Manhattan takes you above the city while keeping you rooted in urban life. Walk through a field of wildflowers as cabs zoom along the street beneath you. Read more.
One of the city’s best views, and excellent food still, after all these years. A sunset reservation’s best, with rabbit and dumplings.
The Greenmarket-inspired menu at this rustic eatery features seasonal fare. Enjoy a romantic jazz soundtrack while you eat courtesy of the restaurant’s Friday Night Music series (7:30–10:30pm). Read more.
The best place to forget that you’re in NYC is crammed with gardens, forests and other quiet nooks that are perfect for chilling out. No visit here is complete without a stop by the Cloisters. Read more.
The best waterfront in NYC offers a unique view of the lower Manhattan skyline, aquatic features, such as a salt marsh filled with native cordgrass, and Jane’s Carousel, a restored ride from 1922. Read more.
The best place to find your inner Zen boasts relaxed, peaceful grounds. Claim a spot near the serene Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, surrounded by Japanese myrtle and cypress trees, and bliss out. Read more.
Gorgeous park on the Harlem River. Extensive community garden, too. Easy water access.
Grub Street's Cheap Eats says: "Fried chickpeas, $3, plus remojon, $14, plus Egipcio, $8."
The chef’s fondness for wild food is reflected in both the menu and the restaurant’s décor. When asked about the vertical herb garden growing in the dining room, a server once replied, “It’s alive.” Read more.
This is the best spa in NYC right now. A series of serene baths ranging from a superb flotation pool to hot and a truly amazing steam room that is the perfect temperature.
This is a hidden gem in New York's museum world. Make sure not to miss the Goya on view, a gorgeous portrait of the Duchess of Alba.
The Foundation is starting to offer tours via an online reservation system here http://www.juddfoundation.org/visit_ny. And an article on the restoration by the NY Times here Read more.
If you're here for a specific exhibit or event don't leave without taking a walk through Morgan's private study and the library. Absolutely astonishing rooms.
New York Magazine Cheap Eats issue says to try the adjaruli khachapuri, stuffed with feta and mozzarella and topped with a poached egg. Bonus: Georgian wines served in traditional clay cups.
Beautiful venue with awesome teas. A pleasant find on our walk through the village. They also have food and wine.
vegetarian chef who doesn't dismiss omnivores! (think house-smoked chicken & bacon) drinks: cold-pressed juices/smoothies, biodynamic wine, gluten-free (& non) beer, brooklyn-brewed kombucha
Soda machines from the future. 4K projection. Reclining, so-comfortable-you-risk-falling-asleep chairs. And best of all, pre-reserved seating (row E was the perfect distance from the screen)
This beloved dive is the best bar to sing your heart out in a group. Every night, a pianist mines the Great American Songbook well into the wee hours for Broadway babies from all over the city. Read more.
The best theater to see a movie that will change your life hosts new art-house titles (at its Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center), rep series and beaucoup festival offerings. Read more.
Sit at the back! The seats don't recline, so otherwise your neck will hurt as you crane it to see the show.
"The excitement in that room full of strangers is genuine, and infectious, and you might just hear a story, at the table or in the food, that you wouldn’t have otherwise." Read more.
Fort Tilden originally served as one of the most modern additions to the fortifications of NY Harbor. It was decommissioned as a military installation in 1974. Discover other NYC's war sites on MF: Read more.
Worth a visit as much for the history as the architecture. Follow it up with a visit to the Gropius House in Lincoln, MA to see a livable, family home that still meets rigorous modernist standards!
Imagine a playground that parents actually like: “If you create a park-like environment and people feel really free, adults hang out and participate like children do.” -Adriaan Geuze, West8 architect Read more.
Sit on one of the benches by the East River, toward the top of the park behind Gracie Mansion, and you'll get a cool breeze, a great view and a bit of serenity of soaking up the water vibe!
Claudette brings Southern France to Greenwich Village. Order the pieds paquets, it comes on a copper platter of tripe and pork sloshing dangerously in a garlicky rust-colored broth. Read more.
Mario Batali's menu is seasonal and full of family-style Italian dishes that taste like they've been passed down for generations.
Sit in the back garden, order the calamari with mint leaves and cauliflower appetizer. Along with spinach and buffalo cheese ravioli! Do try the tiramisu.
Incredible & beautiful. Standouts: baked ricotta, the ricotta cavatelli, grandma style pizza, the zucchini flower pizza, the vanilla ice cream. Skip the whole wheat spaghetti & hostess cupcake thing.
