Let's talk about Food!

Lovelies, one of my favorite things to do (other than buy fabulous clothes & do musicals) is to Eat Delicious Food! Me gusta the comer & beber. (you all read Spanglish, right?)

So I thought today I'd list off some of my favorite NYC places to eat (and also one that I haven't been to yet that I WANT to go to!)

One of my all time favorite places to eat is Etc. Etc.

This is a small place on 44th between 8th and 9th, but they have half servings of pasta that are priced $9/$10 bucks! Can't go wrong with that! And because they bring you lovely bread baskets, you really don't need more than 1/2 portion of pasta. The wine list is fantastic. (I like the Cabernet myself) Plus they have a dessert selection that makes my mouth water, but if you just want a little something sweet, never fear - the little complimentary dessert balls of chocolate & vanilla are sure to be enough!


Now Etc.Etc.'s big sister Vice Versa is wonderful, too! (See dish above) This place is a tish more expensive, but well worth it - and in the summer they have an outdoor patio in the back that seats up to 25! Plus their wine list is even more killer than the little sister restaurant!

The atmosphere here is more traditional & upscale, but it still has a very fresh take and the creative dishes of food (and endless bread baskets) are lovely!


Also, Whym is just delightful. The owners said of their restaurant: "Whym concentrates on pepped-up remixes of hearty traditional dishes, playing with classics the way their logo toys with form (it reads the same even when it's flipped). Take for example the chopped salad, which here features asparagus, bosc pear, beet cubes, crumbled feta, and a basil vinaigrette. The best thing about the dish though is that it works and is delicious: this is not a reinvention for originality's sake, it is an exploration with real purpose."


I really want to try this place called Town. (It looks fancy, but not pretentious!) Here's what the review said on City Search.

The Scene Finding Town can be tricky: Unless you're spending the night at the Chambers Hotel, you might never even know it existed. Hidden in the back of the hotel, the dining room is comfortable, decorated in muted grays, suited to discussing real-estate ventures and other business.
The Food Chef-owner Geoffrey Zakarian cooks in a rich, high-gloss style, and there isn't a single dish on the menu that has not been intensely prepared and intricately thought out. His menu's high points bear witness that the good aspects of this approach far outweigh the bad: vivid, chemical-green chilled pea soup with prosciutto; savory escargots in a dense truffled risotto; fluke carpaccio with bracing blood oranges and mint. Save room for the better-than-average petit fours, the best of which is an unusual but great single-malt scotch tartlet.

Miss Musical's Tried & True:

Etc. Etc.
352 W 44th St
New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 339-4141

Vice Versa
325 W 51st St
New York, NY 10019
Phone: (212) 399-9291
Fax: (212) 399-9327

Whym
889 9th Ave
New York, NY 10019
Phone: (212) 315-0088


Miss Musical Wants to Try:

Town
15 W 56th St
New York, NY 10019
Phone: (212) 582-4445

I love me some NYC restaurants!