#The best new NYC restaurants to try this fall

#The best new NYC restaurants to try this fall

“The best new NYC restaurants to try this fall” After navigating not one, but two highly unusual years, 2022 turned out to be a different kind of unexpected for New York’s dining scene, with restaurants thriving all over town while the city otherwise struggles to find its post-pandemic footing. Thus far, we’ve had some memorable…

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#How the NYC restaurant scene defied the pandemic

#How the NYC restaurant scene defied the pandemic

“#How the NYC restaurant scene defied the pandemic” For New York City’s restaurants, the future is mostly the past – and that’s a good thing. The pandemic has not “changed everything” — despite outdoor seating, no-contact menus and earlier eating hours — as many predicted it would. The overlooked, underappreciated, mind-boggling – and happy —…

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#New Yorkers spending big money on luxury fine dining

#New Yorkers spending big money on luxury fine dining

“#New Yorkers spending big money on luxury fine dining” Here’s some hard-to-swallow news for grinches who say the pandemic has doomed fine dining in favor of share plates, butt-busting seats and ear-shattering noise levels. On the contrary, restaurants are returning to luxurious creature comforts and classically inspired cooking — and the astronomical prices that go with them. It…

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#Why NYC is still No. 1

#Why NYC is still No. 1

“#Why NYC is still No. 1” You want to be a part of it New York, New York. Greatest city on Earth . . . capital of the world . . . center of civilization’s gravity . . . and we’re turning into Al Capone’s Chicago. But we’re No. 1 in terms of filming movies and television. So many stars relocating…

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#Daniel Boulud’s Le Pavillon a bellwether for NYC dining

#Daniel Boulud’s Le Pavillon a bellwether for NYC dining

“#Daniel Boulud’s Le Pavillon a bellwether for NYC dining” What’s the big deal about an expensive, 80-seat restaurant opening on the second floor of a Midtown office building? Daniel Boulud’s Le Pavillon is only the most important new restaurant in New York City’s history. When it bows on Wednesday at One Vanderbilt, the soaring new…

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#Inside Daniel Boulud’s new restaurant Le Pavillion

#Inside Daniel Boulud’s new restaurant Le Pavillion

“#Inside Daniel Boulud’s new restaurant Le Pavillion” On Saturday, the city closed a swath of East 42nd Street because chef Daniel Boulud’s newest project, Le Pavillon, was expecting an unusual delivery: 10,000 pounds of black olive trees trucked in from Florida. A massive crane hoisted the 20-foot-tall trees to a group of workers perched on a…

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