Fodor's New York City (Full-color Travel Guide) by Fodor's Travel Guides

Author:Fodor's Travel Guides [Fodor's Travel Guides]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Travel Distribution
Published: 2016-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Gramercy

This leafy, high-rent neighborhood, which has an old-world, old-money feel, is home to a few gems, tucked away down the long blocks of brownstones. Gramercy is a great place for a stroll before dinner.

BLT Prime.

$$$$ | STEAKHOUSE | A masculine, vivacious space is the showcase for bold, appealing Franco-American cuisine. Menu specials are scrawled on a blackboard. Everything is served à la carte, and prices are high, but so is the quality of every dish. Although there are poultry, veal, and lamb dishes on the menu—from lemon-rosemary chicken to a lamb T-bone—steaks are the main event. The dry-aged USDA prime steaks—pulled from a 30-foot-wide dry-aging room—are broiled at 1,700ºF, spread lightly with herb butter, and served with a choice of sauce (the béarnaise is perfection). | Average main: $40 | 111 E. 22nd St., between Lexington and Park Aves. , Gramercy | 212/995–8500 | www.bltprime.com | No lunch | Reservations essential | Station: N, R, 6 to 23rd St.

Casa Mono.

$$ | SPANISH | Andy Nusser put in his time cooking Italian under Mario Batali at Babbo before an obsession with Spain landed him his own acclaimed Iberian niche. The perennially cramped and crowded Casa Mono sends patrons to Bar Jamón, the wine-and-ham-bar annex next door, where you can pick at plates of jamón serrano while awaiting the main feature. Our favorite seats are at the Casa Mono counter overlooking the chef’s open kitchen. Though most menu items are delectably shareable, of particular note are all things seared à la plancha (grilled on a metal plate), including blistered peppers and garlic-kissed mushrooms. Like his mentor, Nusser has a weakness for the neglected cuts of meat, so check your food fears at the door. | Average main: $21 | 52 Irving Pl., at 17th St. , Gramercy | 212/253–2773 | www.casamononyc.com | Station: 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R to 14th St.–Union Sq.

Gramercy Tavern.

$$$$ | AMERICAN | Danny Meyer’s intensely popular restaurant tops many a New Yorker’s list of favorite dining spots. In front, the first-come, first-served tavern has a lighter menu—including a value-packed three-course prix fixe—along with great craft beers and cocktails scrawled on a board at the bar. The more formal dining room has a prix-fixe American menu, where choices include seasonal dishes such as marinated sea scallops with pickled peppers and fresh grapes, and rack of lamb with sunchokes, hazelnuts, and exotic mushrooms. Meyer’s restaurants—he owns several well-regarded eateries in the city—are renowned for their food and hospitality, and Gramercy Tavern sets the standard. | Average main: $37 | 42 E. 20th St., between Broadway and Park Ave. S , Gramercy | 212/477–0777 | www.gramercytavern.com | Reservations essential | Station: N, R, 6 to 23rd St.

Maialino.

$$$ | ROMAN | Named for its signature dish—suckling pig—the perpetually packed restaurant in the Gramercy Park Hotel is what it might look like if Manhattan and Rome collided: fashionable people eating in an Eternal City ambience. If you haven’t been to the Italian capital in a while, there’s plenty to reintroduce your

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