Pre-theater dinner, solved: how to eat well around the Broadway houses without missing curtain
The Theater District's fixed dinner math, explained: curtain times, kitchen windows, and the counters where a 5:30 table still gets you to your seat at 7.
Dining: Restaurants and Tables
The practical side of eating out in New York: when reservations release, which rooms hold seats for walk-ins, tipping and service charges, corkage rules, wine markups, dietary requests and what a large table costs once everything lands. Written for anyone booking dinner in a city that makes it complicated.
How eating out in the city works: reservation drops, walk-in timing, tipping norms, corkage, wine markups and the bill a table of six should expect.
A Manhattan bagel guide, block by block: where the line moves fastest and why
From the Upper West Side to Kips Bay, a working guide to the city's most competitive breakfast food — and how to read a bagel shop in the first ten seconds.