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New York.

The places in New York that people cared enough about to send to a friend.

14 places · 14 HoodTips · 1 tipsters

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Places worth knowing.

2 places

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New York

Columbus Circle

Siberia

Midtown is full of expensive traps; descend the subway stairs for a beer and a place with a pulse.

HoodTip
New York

Hell’s Kitchen

Rudy’s Bar & Grill

Red vinyl booths, cold beer, a pig out front and a hot dog with every drink. Rudy’s knows exactly what it is.

Guides to New York.

Longer collections of places worth knowing.

Guide

12 placesAnthony Bourdain’s New YorkThe restaurants, bars and stubborn old New York institutions that earned Bourdain’s affection.

1 placesEating like Eric WareheimDave’s city-by-city compilation of the restaurants Eric Wareheim has praised, returned to or singled out over the years.

Latest HoodTips.

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Restaurant & Bar · New YorkLa Grande BoucherieDon't overthink the order. Sit at the bar, get whatever's on the ice, and have a glass of something white and cold. The food is French brasserie — good, not life-changing — but that's not why you're here. You're here because the room is one of the best in New York and most people walk straight past it. It's the 45 minutes where Midtown stops being Midtown.

By Dave