Anything & Everything New York (PART 2) - [please search thread before posting]

phatbear

PearlJam wrote: »

Cheers for the hint about the location of Shake Shack - I read the positive comments about it earlier in the thread but hadn't checked my map. The frozen custard has me intrigued but the queues might be a bit offputting.

I stumbled across shake shack behind the museum natural history, which is up by central park, on a warm sunday afternoon and we had our food in our hands with in 25mins, remember the food is cooked fresh, if you avoid the obvious times you will be fine.

pcg2001

phatbear wrote: »

I stumbled across shake shack behind the museum natural history, which is up by central park, on a warm sunday afternoon and we had our food in our hands with in 25mins, remember the food is cooked fresh, if you avoid the obvious times you will be fine.

adding to phatbear's advice:
be warned that the burgers are a bit small (about the size of the £1 mcdonald's burger), so you might as well get 2 while queueing. The fries are great as well. We shared a concrete and loved it - don't remember the flavour, but I asked the sales assistant for a suggestion.

floyd

For great cheesecake go to Roccos on Bleeker Street, a real italian pastry shop that does fabulous cakes, desserts, cookies and marvellous espressos. The italian ricotta cheesecake is incredible

Philippa36

floyd wrote: »

For great cheesecake go to Roccos on Bleeker Street, a real italian pastry shop that does fabulous cakes, desserts, cookies and marvellous espressos. The italian ricotta cheesecake is incredible

I shall definitely add that to my list of places to visit when I'm there next year.


(I'm planning on celebrating my 40th drinking cocktails in NYC)

greenface

so thats a manhattan and a cosmopolitan on the list then.
BTW we went to see Lion King in feb 2007 and you will be emotionally breathless in the first 5 minutes and happy/sad and all other emotions in between (is it still in the Minskoff) great theatre great sound you will love it highly reccomended

becky_rtw

phatbear wrote: »

I stumbled across shake shack behind the museum natural history, which is up by central park, on a warm sunday afternoon and we had our food in our hands with in 25mins, remember the food is cooked fresh, if you avoid the obvious times you will be fine.

I had cheesy chips to take out one drunken stumble back to my hotel from the subway - lush :D:D

I will be going back when I'm over in May to try out the frozen custard!

gregg1

greenface wrote: »

so thats a manhattan and a cosmopolitan on the list then.
BTW we went to see Lion King in feb 2007 and you will be emotionally breathless in the first 5 minutes and happy/sad and all other emotions in between (is it still in the Minskoff) great theatre great sound you will love it highly reccomended

We went to see the Lion King at the Minskoff last year and left in the interval along with many other people. Maybe we were unlucky but they had what must have been the worst child actor in the universe playing Simba. Also got peed off by people chatting on their mobiles all around us. Great theatre though - very easy to find, right on Times Square.

WaxiesDargle

HGLTsuperstar wrote: »

Welcome home Cas - my first trip to NYCX and staying at Hotel Beacon is just 30 days away!!!

Hi HGLTsuperstar

I stayed at the Beacon in August...check out Page 113 about the hotel and Page 116 about what we got up to day by day in New York...

EDIT: sorry I see that you've already read it!

floyd

I have really got post NYC blues, not sure when we are going back again but I miss it already and we've been back less than a week!

redrabbit29

How does this sound:

August 2nd - August 8th 2010 = 6 nights

FLIGHT: £525 return per person
HOTEL: £350 per person (cosmopolitan hotel in soho)

TOTAL: £875 per person


It's cheaper than I thought, and it looks quite good so may book it.