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Hi all,

I'm playing tuba at BAM with the Royal Shakespeare Company for 6 weeks (21/3 - 30/4) if anyone fancy's a beer or recommending some great places to eat/drink.

*just adding to this, we are bringing our golf clubs if anyone plays at all I'd really appreciate recommendations!

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All the best,

Ian

Ian1 wrote:recommending some great places to eat/drink!

http://www.bluewatergrillnyc.com/ Extraordinary

Cheers Michael.

Help me narrow it down -- what kinds of food do you like/not like? And where will you be most often?

There is a TON of good food in that city, but there are also a TON of generic "blah" restaurants that still draw large crowds of people. If you're there for 6 weeks, do some of the tourist stuff, but if I were you, I'd try to spend most of my time either above 59th street (either side) or below about 23rd street.

Lower East side has a TON of great restaurants, SoHo is expensive but has some non-expensive places too... but LOTS of amazing places.

I dunno... it's got everything you could ever want. What do you want?

Best sushi, burger joints, pizza, wings, bars with great beers... Things to see other than the 'usual' tourist stuff.

Just spent a month touring China and looking forward to a new experience.

6 weeks is a long time so personal recommendations very welcome!

Also (although they may be sold out) they are brilliant Shakespeare productions. Great music too...

Ian

McSorely's Old Ale House, 15 East 7th Street.

I was a "regular" there, back when I lived in town.

Bill Bell holds the ale drinking record (no joke, considering it's been there since 1854).

His album is framed on the back wall, next to the ladies' room.

I've spent a lot of time in Brooklyn, most recently December. Kulishkat gourmet felafel might be the best in the world, and is a few blocks away. It's a great and safe walk from your theatre to prospect park and the season is filled with great things to do there for free. Welcome to Brooklyn!

roweenie wrote: ... next to the ladies' room.

LADIES' room? When the hell did this happen?

UncleBeer wrote:

roweenie wrote: ... next to the ladies' room.

LADIES' room? When the hell did this happen?

Yes, indeed. Before women were allowed in, the gender-neutral sign "TOILET" was sufficient for the men's only restroom. However, once they allowed women in, they neglected (?) to replace the "TOILET" sign to a "men's room" sign.

Needless to say, (in a now 46 year old running gag), more than a few women have walked into the men's room by mistake...

(There is a separate restroom marked "LADIES", but it is off to the left, and not nearly as prominent.....)

Thanks much appreciated! Keep the tips coming...

Ian

Don't eat anywhere in Times Square
Try to avoid eating anywhere with too many tourists
If you have the $, pick a famous chef and eat at his restaurant
Lots of great food in the Lower East Side
Chinatown is fun, but if you want real fun, go to the Chinatown in Queens
Little Italy is too crowded, but worth going to. All the restaurants are basically the same, choose the one that looks best.
Go to a Mets game
Go to the Met Museum
Go to the top of the new WTC

Hope that's a little bit of help, probably not really. Too wide of a net, but really, its too easy to find good things there. Really just depends on what you want.

I lived there for almost 8 years, and only scratched the surface. Anything you would ever want, from Basque to Burmese, exists in that city.

Can't help you much with Brooklyn though, I only ever went a handful of times. The nice parts are nice, and the bad parts are very bad. I preferred to go to Queens to spend my "outer borough" time.

Michael Bush wrote:

Ian1 wrote:recommending some great places to eat/drink!

http://www.bluewatergrillnyc.com/ Extraordinary

Based on this recommendation I went there last night on my way to the Black Dyke concert, which was conveniently only two blocks away. An evening of great food and great music.

Hup

There's a multitude of fabulous places. Take a Saturday and explore the Union Square farmers market. Walk the neighborhood. Park Avenue South, then turn west toward the Flat Iron district- Teddy Roosevelts brownstone birthplace is on 19th or 20th; and then, when tired of walking, go into Gramercy Tavern and sit at the bar and order the Tavern Burger. It's a non menu item, only served on Saturdays, and is arguably the best burger in a city that offers many, but I guaranty you will not be disappointed. Union Sq Cafe is due to reopen soon, another fabulous place on Park Avenue South, and Il Mulino, possibly the best Italian Restaurant in the city is right there too( although this place can seriously set you back- a full dinner for one will set you back about the cost of a blokepiece!
If you're missing home, and don't mind the Scowsers, Carraghers on the west side is fabulous

Have a GREAT time. Peter Luger Steak House right there in Brooklyn is consistently
voted the Best steakhouse in NYC.

By the way, I played a RSC tour back in 1993 (The Winters Tale). Our first stop was a week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; then a month at the Kennedy Center in DC.

Working with the RSC was one of the artistically and personally satisfying gigs of my career.

Enjoy!!!