The Best Restaurants of New York City
Posted by Doug in Food, Travel at 4:47 pm The first bite of food I had in Manhattan, the first time I visited the city, will remain to be the location in my mind of one of the best restaurants. New York City of 1996 in Times Square. We walked into Ray’s Pizza after two days of no sleep and lots of time spent on planes. There was a short line at the counter, and the man working behind it yelled at me, “You want garlic knots!?!” I figured I’d better have garlic knots, even though I had no idea what they were. I also ordered a slice of pie, in New York it’s called pie, not pizza. We proceeded to our table with the red and white checkered table cloth. Billy Joel was playing, “Piano Man” from the speakers and I took my first bite. Now perhaps it was the lack of sleep, or the fact that I was in this city for the first time in my life, or that I was an actor ready to perform on 42nd Street, or maybe…the piece of pie was just that good, but I had tears in my eyes as I swallowed that first bite. And my love affair with the city began.
I have looked for other ‘best’ places to find my favorites throughout different cities, but there is just something about New York. Dim Sum in China Town, NY. Now I’ve had Dim Sum in Los Angeles and Chicago and San Francisco, but the morning in New York was different. I have no idea which restaurant we were in as the streets are winding and didn’t make sense in my head. But we were in a big, cafeteria style room and the waiters were pushing carts around and again, have no idea what I was eating, but it was out of this world. Best falafel sandwich? Just down a couple blocks from Alphabet City, for one dollar and fifty cents. Best cup of coffee, a very small place in Brooklyn. Best bowl of carrot soup, also in Brooklyn at a coffee shop/record store where the cat that lived there was curled on the chair beside me. Best glass of champagne…out of the bottle atop a friends apartment building at one in the morning. So, that said, perhaps it is just a bit of the spirit of the city that seems to make various items just taste better. But I’m sticking to Ray’s Pizza. That one at least, for certain is the best slice of pie in the world.
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