Your ~25 course meal will have you eating ramen for the next week, but cutting into what looks like a lump of coal to find it’s a beautiful slow roasted beet will make the price more palatable.
Specializing in Danish smorrebrod (small plates and open-faced sandwiches), spoon pickled herring and tomato compote over dense rye bread. Daters be warned: it’s a breath killing delight.
Around the cornier from fancier fish fare at Nobu, rumor has it they source from the same provider. Head on over for better prices, much more zen, and maki named after movies: Taxi Driver anyone?
Rustic and inviting, Forgione’s food is a mix of Italian cooking, French technique and a few Southeast Asian flavors. Get the juicy cooked-under-a-brick chicken and finish with the pumpkin soufflé.
With a menu featuring a perfect mix of French & Italian classics, we’d say go French with the boeuf Bourguignon or the oozing croque monsieur and Italian with the bucatini all’amatriciana.
The cold, cheap beer and juicy burgers make up for the blunt service (New York charm), and the crisp pan-roasted chicken atop buttery smashed potatoes is a solid foundation for lots of booze.
This joint has some serious eats (the strip steak with garlic butter and mountain of fries), but it’s totally acceptable to fashion a meal out of some crusty bread and the olives from your martini(s)…
Ditching the kitsch along with its old location, Kutsher’s features Jewish-American family recipes alongside more elevated dishes. Get Mrs. K’s matzo-ball soup: an almost-sweet dill-flecked consommé.
A plaster cow outside welcomes you in and homey food is served all day long, but breakfast is really what’s up. Get the sourdough pancakes with a side of homemade scrapple and you can thank us later.
The is food described as “family-style,” - if your family makes things like the truffled-ricotta-and-honey combo is on the seasonal crostini menu, consider yourself lucky.
