New York Restaurants - Not For Turists Review

It is always a hard time trying to find the best restaurants in Manhattan.  At almos all times you finish your search with a Zagat or Michellin guide on your hands, and many times more you finish going to the same restaurants as usual.

NFT (Not for Turists) website compiled a list of really nice restaurants, and divided into: cheap, hit, old, pizza, ethnic, meat, meatless, expensive and their favorite.

This doesn't mean that you will retire your restaurant guides, but for sure it is a better way to start. I went to a lot of restaurants mentioned by NFT and I can assure you that their list is pretty decent in all categories (which sometimes are forgotten by the guides).

http://www.notfortourists.com/Overview.aspx/NewYork/Restaurants

Corner Bistro - The Home of the Bistro Burger

A long time before restaurants started to cook hamburgers as gourmet food, Corner Bistro was there. Treating hamburger as hamburger, but giving to it the taste and the place as it deserves.

Figuring on 10 of 10 lists of best burger in NYC, Corner Bistro remains untouchable. It is just a perfect spot for a perfect cooked hamburger or a Bistro Burger (as it is called there). The Bistro Burger is actually a bacon cheeseburger, with artisanal hamburger cooked the way you like it.

My way? Medium rare.

Bistro Burger with Fries and Dark Mc Sorley's

The side fries are amazing! Crunchy and not a deposit of oil, it makes your meal special.

What more I could say? BEERS!

With a good variety of beers, my top choice is a $2.5 Mc Sorley's Dark (they have the ale as well).  Mc Sorley’s is a local Brewery established in West Village in 1854 (http://www.mcsorleysnewyork.com/).

Corner bistro is located at: 331 W 4th St (at corner w/ Jane Street)

(212) 242-9502
http://cornerbistrony.com/

Just one more thing to remember: They don’t accept credit card, so bring money!

How many bars have glasses with shape of beer?

Don't ask for the menu - Look at the wall.

Best Cocktail Bars in Manhattan

Following my search for the best Manhanttan, I started a search for the best cocktails bar of Manhattan.  The next step is to drink a Manhattan on each one of them, to have, then, my final veridict.

The list is below:

Name	Location
Babbo Restaurant	110 Waverly Place, New York
Tropica Restaurant	200 Park Avenue, New York
Flatiron Lounge	37 West 19th Street, New York
Temple Bar	332 Lafayette Street, New York
Milk & Honey	134 Eldridge Street, New York
Bemelmans Bar @ Carlyle Hotel	35 E 76th St, New York
Blue bar @ the Algonquin Hotel	59 West 44th Street, New York
King Cole Bar @ St. Regis Hotel	2 E. 55th Street, New York (Invented the Bloody Mary!)
Angel's Share @ Village Yokocho	8 Stuyvesant Street, New York
Little Branch	22 7th Ave S, New York
Employees Only	510 Hudson Street, New York
Old Homestead Steakhouse	56 9th Ave, New York
Brandy Library	25N Moore Street, New York
East Side Company Bar	49 Essex Street, New York
Pegu Club	77W Houston Street, New York

* M&H will be hard to go, entrance is by referral and appointment only, by paying an annual fee of approximately U$500. Perhaps one of this days I call London and convince Jacqueline to let me in (http://www.mlkhny.com/new-york.php).