Ok NYC Du'ers... want to meet up Tuesday April 8 for dinner?

[Ava]

Mom and I will have to get your suggestions for somewhere for us to meet up and the best time to do so(us rural alabama folk are out of our element :rofl:). Somewhere affordable and good! ;)

We will be staying on 30th Street and Lexington Avenue.

:bounce:

[ThomCat]

1. Meeting at your hotel would be pretty easy.

There is a Lexington Avenue subway line. (The 4, 5 and 6 trains)

And you're right near a lot of very good very inexpensive restaurants. :9

Um, inexpensive by NYC standards. Y'all from Alabama might have a bit of sticker shock seeing that $15-25 per person is considered cheap.

[Ava]

3. actually we have those here too in causal but nice place

but we do have "country cooking" places that are 5 to 10 bucks per person, lol. :D then again nothing beats homecooked country cookin ;)
We are staying at the ramada inn.

btw, we decided to pay for an extra night so that we have two nights and two and a half days to see the city. we figured that while we were already going to be there, we should go ahead and see the city. ;)

[ThomCat]

7. That's awesome!

I hope you're planning to spend at least one full day in museums.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the best art museum for everything except modern art.

The Museum of Natural History is the place to go for dinosaurs and anthropology and botany and zoology. And the Hayden Planitarium. You can't miss the tour of the galaxy!

The Cloisters is the place to go for mideaval christian iconography.

The Guggenheim is the place to go for modern art.

If you don't have tickets to a broadway show you can do what locals do. Wait in line to see what tickets you can get at a discount same day at the TKTS booth. You don't get a lot of choices, but you get to see great stuff cheaply because they're undersold for a show.

Woo Hoo! I hope you get to see and do a lot of stuff! :woohoo:

[Ava]

8. how long does it typically take to wait in line?

if it is going to take a great deal of time, then we will have to just do it another time.

[ThomCat]

9. Not long at all.

I think the discount tickets go on sale an hour or two before the shows all start. Some days you'll wait an hour, but other days there isn't a line at all. So you wait in line for a little bit and then head to the theater for the show. :)

I haven't done this because I used to be able to get half price tickets through work.

But I think most of the people I know in NYC who attend shows regularly get their tickets this way.

[Ava]

10. we will have to check it out

thanks for the tip! :hi:

[HERVEPA]

20. Think about going to Off-Broadway or Off Off Broadway

Seeing a play in a small theatre or studio can be great.

[Ava]

22. is there a website where the plays are listed?

i would really enjoy that too!

[HERVEPA]

26. Check out this site Ava

http://www.offoffonline.com/#

[Ava]

29. thanks for the link

:hi: i think we are going to skip seeing any plays while we are there this time around so we can have more time to see the city, but maybe next time!

[Midlodemocrat]

13. When I lived in CT, I would go to NYC several times a month and

stand in the TKTS line. Saw some amazing shows that way and cheap!

Now, they're a client of mine. Which is great, except that I don't live anywhere near NYC. LOL.

[Ava]

14. i'll check that out

i know that looking at online tickets they are too expensive(200 bucks each) for us to go that way. maybe we can find some cheaper ones there. :hi:

[Ava]

16. have any suggestions for restaurants?

the hotel that we are at lists Belvedere Italian Restaurant as a place close that is good. do you know anything about it?

[ThomCat]

33. Belvedere Italian Restaurant

My boss thinks he's been there. If it's the same place then he says they had pretty good food.

If you like Italian food then there are two places I'd love to take you. I can pick one for our meetup.

There is an area with a bunch of Indian and Pakistani restaurants near your hotel too.

[Ava]

36. i'm a vegetarian

though not a strict one (still eat fish.. i'm one of that "bad" vegetarians, lol). so somewhere that is friendly to that would be great. i'm open to your suggestions!

[ThomCat]

40. I'm a vegan.

If I can eat there then you're probably safe. :P

[Ava]

41. i didn't know that

learn something new everyday huh ;)

now when we meet down chew me out for being a "bad" vegetarian :rofl:

[ThomCat]

42. I'm friendly. I promise not to lecture you.

Hell, I'm a vegan who used to cook meat dishes for friends. I was the best cook in our bunch. I am not in a position to lecture anyone. :P

[Ava]

43. good

us southerners don't like lectures ya know :P ;)

[avasmom]

47. so nice to meet all of you

thomcat, it was certainly a pleasure to meet you and the rest... i feel that i've made new friends and ava is lucky to count all of you as hers...

and the restaurant is AWESOME- truly authentic italian, rivals any food i enjoyed in italy... highly recommend to anyone...

-t-

[Tuesday Afternoon]

24. Thom,

I ate cheaper and better food in NYC over Christmas than here. The corner Deli/Store was fabulous!!
It was wonderful and very affordable. You guys don't realize that inflation has caught up everywhere !!

Rent...however ...that is another story ;)

[ThomCat]

34. That's true.

You can find some great food that is very cheap here in NYC. But often you have to look for it. :)

[Sanity Claws]

2. Welcome to NY

I can't make it but welcome to New York. I hope you and your Mom have a great time.

[Ava]

6. thanks

:hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Gonna be tough to get New Yorkers to eat supper at 4:30 pm.

:rofl:

Sorry, just making fun of your country rubeness, which though you are from the south is the same rubeness with which I grew up in, in which my relatives, if they haven't eaten supper by 4:30 or, God forbid, 5:00 at the latest, then they might as well as not eat because it's too close to bed time.

[Ava]

5. we eat dinner at 6 earliest

and that is actually pretty usual around here :shrug:

personally i loved how in italy they sat down late for dinner and had long meals full of conversation.

[Smarmie Doofus]

11. Me !

You rule.

When and where?

[Ava]

15. i'm open to suggestions!

like i said, somewhere affordable and somewhere close by would be great. also the later(though not too late because i have an interview the next day) the better for us since we will be walking around NYC that day and trying to see as much as possible.

[DarkTirade]

12. I hear there's a good Olive Gar...

I can't even bring myself to say it. :P

[Ava]

17. i actually like olive garden

but not while in New york ;)

[Ava]

18. bump

any suggestions?

[Fredda Weinberg]

19. You're about a mile south of Citicorp, which houses several fine

restaurants. I used to work in the building and deciding which cuisine was for dinner was one of the perks.

But luxury comes @ a price. Here's a sample menu

http://www.hillstone.com/pdf_menus/houstons/Houstons_Citicorp.pdf

Of course, the quality will be unsurpassed and you can expect attentive service.

[Pacifist Patriot]

21. Aw rats, I won't be getting to NYC until the 11th.

[Ava]

23. crap

:( :hi:

[Ava]

25. bump

[speedoo]

27. 8th is no good for me.

Sorry, Ava. Would love to meet you and your mom.

[Ava]

28. yeah, it's either 8th or 9th for us

because we leave on the 10th.

that sucks.. :( maybe next time :hi:

[Ava]

30. anyone still up for this?

:hi:

[Smarmie Doofus]

31. Is the 9th, Wendesday, a possibility? That would work better for me.

But I'll come in any case.

[Ava]

32. I'll have to check and see

my interview is at 2 and i'm not sure how long it will last.. at least a couple of hours. the way it works out we land at 3:35 tuesday and leave our hotel for the airport at 3:45. my interview starts wednesday at 2 and i'm not sure how long that lasts. we want to maximize our time there so i'm trying to figure out with our time and the interview when would be the best night to meet up. wednesday probably would be better, but i'll have to check it out with my mom.

[ThomCat]

35. I'm definitely in for this on either day. :)

:woohoo:

[Ava]

37. great, i'll check with mom and see if wednesday night is alright

it would have to definitely be later though, because like i said.. i don't know when i'm getting out of the interview

[ThomCat]

38. That's fine. I'm a New Yawker.

I am fine with eating late in Manhattan. :P

[Ava]

39. lol, i'm sure you are

:P

[Smarmie Doofus]

44. So... Belvedere Italian Restaurant?

Where is that exactly, Thom and/or Ava? And are we eating on Wednesday ( I hope ) or Tuesday?

And what time?

[WinkyDink]

45. Just had the best calamari over linguine at John's Pizzeria, 44thSt.

[Genevieve]

46. Best food is downtown

East Village and West Village.
And, it's more fun downtown too.