NYC Recommendations
- Tyson Gach: https://foursquare.com/user/11467850
- Phil Oye: https://gist.github.com/philoye/240cf8c2d3636f74ed51
Smorgasburg: foodie market in various locations between April to November. Go hungry!
- 12 chairs: Israeli food on Wythe and S 2nd
- D.O.C. Wine Bar: Italian restaurant with Sardinian slant
- Bistro Petit: Driggs and S 3rd is a nice, tiny French bistro serving modern French cuisine, with North East Asian influences.
- St Mazie, south w'burg
- Zizi Limona's shakshuka, south w'burg
- Post Office: south w'burg, focuses on ryes
- Samurai Mama Japanese Izakaya
- Diner: 85 Broadway, corner with Berry
- Grand Ferry: nice bar for cocktails, which has happy hour oysters.
- El Almacen: :argentinian:
- Roberta's Pizza in Bushwick
- Dear Bushwick with its sister property Yours sincerely
- Tomoko - French patisserie
- Zenkichi - which is above a nice cafe during the day
- Rider - good burger and cocktails
- Misi
- Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club: Great cocktails, fun vibe, and ridiculous shenanigans that resemble sport.
- Buttermilk Channel: Cobble Hill with beautiful buttermilk fried chicken on waffles
- Across the road from Butter Milk Channel, you can find Prime Meats, and Rucula
- Clover Club: Also Cobble Hill for cocktails that even Phoye would endorse.
- Leyenda: Across the road from Clover Club and down a little this was started by people involved in CC. Fantastic cocktails and great tapas.
- Butter & Scotch: bar and bakery
- Pok Pok Thai: Columbia St. ave the wings, They also have Whiskey Soda Lounge
- Julianna's: pizza, Dumbo
- Olea: Mediterranean cuisine
- Emily's pizza, around the corner from Olea
- Camillo: Italian and negronis, Prospect Lefferts Gardens
- Van Brunt Stillhouse Distillery for their tours and cocktails
- Home Town BBQ: best BBQ in NY
- Red Hook Winery: for NY wines and cheese tasting
- Botanica cocktail bar, next to Widow Jane
- And lastly, not to forget Stevie Key Lime Pies!!
- Also White Moustache is based in Red Hook, but you can get their yoghurts in various shops. Amazing Persian style yoghurt.
- Ivan’s Ramen(!!) LES
- Yuji Ramen (or Okonomi!!) East Williamsburg. Yuji opened up a fish market around the corner, called Osakana, which has quick tasty cheap Japanese style lunches.
- Ippudo Ramen
- Setagaya (chain and love their veg ramen)
- Ganso Ramen
- Sweatshop — Williamsburg, a couple of Aussies opened a coffee shop on Metropolitan and offer vegemite and cheese jaffles, avo smash and decent coffee
- Black Brick - Williamsburg
- Budin coffee - GreenPoint
- Pudge Knuckles - Williamsburg
- Irving Farm
- Grumpy - chain
- Stumptown Coffee - chain
- Gorilla Coffee - Park Slope
- Culture Espresso - midtown
- Blue Stone Lane - midtown, next to Bryant Park, Times Square
- Ground Control - midtown but higher on 52nd and Lexington
- Little Collins - same ^
- Briciola: tiny little Italian wine bar with beautiful simple Italian food
- MEW Japanese Izakaya, midtown
- Sessanta Italian
- Jack's wife Freda
- Nomad cocktails bar
- Blank Slate: have the everything bagel
- Salvation Taco
- Booker and Dax
- Momofuku
- Her name is han
Use the subway all the time. It's bloody marvellous. Get a weekly metro pass. Pay once and then just swipe the rest of your trip.
Citibike is pretty great for people into cycling around a city too. Racks to park/return them are pretty common, giving you lots of options.
Cabs are good and relatively inexpensive but traffic is hell so they almost always take too long. Learn to love the subway. (even in the gross summer heat)