Raoul’s
There’s forced cool and there’s real cool and Raoul’s in SoHo, which has been around for fifty years, is the real deal. I grabbed a five PM reservation yesterday (that’s how cool it is: the only reservation you can get is for five PM) before seeing a show at The SoHo Playhouse, not really knowing much about what to expect except that Raoul’s always shows up on lists of SoHo’s best restaurants.
The Burger Joint 2.0
One of our favorite New York secrets, back when we lived here in the early aughts, was nestled behind a red velvet curtain in the lobby of The Parker Meridian hotel. If you were going to see a show or a concert at Carnegie Hall, you’d walk through the ornate marble lobby and, against all odds, wind up in a delightful, greasy spoon called The Burger Joint.
