NOTES FOR NYC

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Vosges

Vosges Haut-Chocolat’s intriguing chocolate creations are made with the finest ingredients from around the world, sourced by Founder and Chocolatier Katrina Markoff. Three days following her graduation from Vanderbilt University, Katrina moved to Paris to pursue her dream of studying the culinary arts at Le Cordon Bleu. Using her palate as her guide, she then embarked on a world tour that began with an apprenticeship in Spain under the direction of Ferran Adrià and continued east through Southeast Asia and Australia.

The purple house of Vosges Haut-Chocolat and the concept of Travel the World through Chocolate™ were inspired by her journeys. Katrina’s fusion of indigenous spices, flowers, roots, herbs and liqueurs with premium chocolate creates a sensory experience that nurtures awareness of and appreciation for the world’s diverse cultures.

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Má Pêche

It’s nothing like the other restaurants in David Chang’s Momofuku confederation — of which Má Pêche is the largest and the first not in the East Village. Located in the basement of the Chambers Hotel, it is large and spacious, not very loud despite the rock music playing over the stereo, and the seats are all quite comfortable. You can even get breakfast. There is an enormous bare-wood communal table in the middle of the dining room, shaped like an X, surrounded by smaller tables along the walls, beneath giant sails of pinkish canvas that stretch up toward a skylight.

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Bubby

Defending the American Table, stealing Recipes from Grandmothers.

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Da Silvano

Chef and owner Silvano Marchetto is known for his commitment to innovation and high quality seasonal ingredients. The cuisine and wine selections have been at the forefront of the industry for decades. Marchetto was one of the first to introduce Americans to Tuscan cuisine and is responsible for bringing many of Italy’s finest products to the forefront of Italian cuisine in America.

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New Museum of Contemporary Art

Founded in 1977, the New Museum is a leading destination for new art and new ideas. It is Manhattan’s only dedicated contemporary art museum and is respected internationally for the adventurousness and global scope of its curatorial program.

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The Meatball Shop

The Meatball Shop is a fuss free kinda joint, roll up your sleeves and prepare for a ballistic, choose your own adventure food journey.

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Eileen's Cheesecake

Eileen has been baking for over 35 years and has received many accolades and recent TV appearences including New Yorks Best Cheesecake. The chocolate vanilla cookies are also worth the try, huge chunks of chocolate in it.

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230 Fifth

230 FIFTH is New York's largest outdoor Rooftop Garden and fully enclosed Penthouse Lounge. With breathtaking views of the NYC skyline.  230 FIFTH has two floors, one is fully enclosed (Penthouse Lounge) and private event rooms, as well as an outdoor rooftop. Our Rooftop Garden also has very large, oversize umbrellas for rainy days, or for very hot sunny days, we partially heat the rooftop in cooler months. 230 Fifth is a lounge however, we do offer a full food menu.

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Top of The Strand

The elevator releases you to the 21st floor, leaving you face-to-façade with the Top of the Strand’s most notable regular - the 102-story Empire State Building, holding court just beyond the slide-away glass ceiling.  With interiors arranged by set designer Lydia Marks (Sex and the City, The Devil Wears Prada) this intimate cocktail loft belies its almost-too-perfect NYC sightlines and chic-ness with a surprisingly unpretentious vibe. 

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Gotham Café

Great restaurant in UES. Serves breakfast and lunch, it has WiFi and and also some take away snacks and homemade yogurt. 

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Island Burger & Shakes

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Carmine's

Carmine's is a family style restaurant offering exceptional value to its guests through the many dishes of Southern Italian cuisine. Restaurateur Artie Cutler crafted the Carmine's concept with a singular vision; bringing his guests "wow-factor" sized portions and making any meal feel like an Italian American wedding feast. Platters of homestyle antipasto, pasta, decadent seafood or meat entrees, and of course homemade desserts are all staples at Carmine's, meant for sharing amongst friends and family. When great food and wine are supported by friendly and knowledgeable service, the results are magic - we want every day to feel like a Sunday afternoon at Grandma's!

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BareBurger

Bareburger is a micro-chain of organic burger restaurants. As of today, we have seventeen locations in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Long Island. Bareburger restaurants offer mouth-watering organic burgers and sandwiches, fresh salads, delicious shakes and sharable snacks in environmentally sustainable, eco-friendly locations. Our belief is that organic food tastes better and is better for you, and that sourcing our ingredients locally benefits our communities. Our menu features a variety of meats, including traditional beef, chicken, turkey and lamb; exotic options such as elk, bison, ostrich and boar; and mushroom, veggie and black bean burgers for our vegetarian and vegan guests. Bareburger also offers a number of savory and sweet salads, organic beer and wine, and kid-friendly cubby meals for the littlest diners.

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Fat Cat

Fat cat is a diverse cultural institution featuring live music, games, art space and innovative educational programming. Our musical offerings highlight emerging artists and legends of genres ranging from jazz to latin, classical and world music. We sustain the tradition of late nightly jam sessions which makes New York the jazz capital. These sessions allow young musicians to earn their chops alongside veterans, and provide pages for a living musical language to be (re)written.

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Small Jazz

It earned a reputation in the 1990s as a "hotbed for New York's jazz talent" with a "well-deserved reputation as one of the best places in the city to see rising talent in the New York jazz scene". Its jazz musicians are noted for being "talented, though largely unknown" while its music is characterized as "modern versions of bebop and hard bop".

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Gotham West Market

Is a first-of-its-kind retail and dining destination in New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. Features eight premiere artisanal food purveyors, each providing a unique amenity for residents and the surrounding community.

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Ivan Ramen

Ivan Orkin’s story is one of legend in the food community: a self described “Jewish Kid from Long Island”, Ivan realized his dream of cooking while doing it in Japan on his terms.

Armed with a degree in Japanese from the University of Colorado Boulder, Ivan immediately moved to Japan upon graduating and cemented his love of everything Japanese.

He returned to the US in 1990, and after some career experimentation, found his way to the Culinary Institute of America where he finally found his calling.

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