Plan my weekend in Manhattan - Page 4

God, 48 sounds so old.


- B

Cafe Des Artistes closed last fall, FYI

I am a big fan of Il Buco. Also Blue Hill.

For drinks - the cocktail thing was dying down a bit, but go early and have a bartender's choice at Little Branch. August also has great brunches.

Damn it, now I miss New York - I really need to move back.

This is why I suggest Chanterelle.


- B

Plano is in Texas and thus Kobe club bitches

How out-of-towner is your date? If she is not as jaded as someone of your advanced age, I think that West Side Story and South Pacific are both good date shows.

Have you ever walked around Brooklyn Heights? That can be fun and interesting, and you could do brunch or lunch at the River Café.


- B

The River Café is tourist-approved. Women especially love it. If you haven't been, you should go. The two best NYC restaurant views are from there and from Asiate at the Mandarin.

The City ballet just had a great all Robbins show, which including a suite of the West Side Story numbers. Unfortunately, you'll miss it...you might have won cool points with your date.


- B

If not already suggested, consider late night drinks at Birdland on Friday or Saturday night. I have a few years on Plano and the room is fun, the drinks good, and the music can be wonderful.

An under-rated, IMHO, place for lunch would be David Burke's Townhouse. If you walked around the West Village and lower Chelsea, you could do lunch at Toqueville, another under-rated place. Both would be very pricey for dinner, but relative bargains for lunch.

Certainly walking around the EV is fun, the little shops all along the side streets from 11th to 6th between Avenue A and 2nd Ave are inteesting and women certainly seem to enjoy them. You could have dinner at a nice Argentinian-style steak house called Buenos Aires (on 6th between A & B) and finish by listening to Jazz at Bistrouge on 13th near Avenue A (check ahead for hours and line up).

The all Robbin program ends tomorrow, actually the opening piece Dances at a Gathering is more satisfying than the WSS.

Again, Marie's will fit the bill.

The place is a bona-fide dump. The bar is stocked like a low-class Bar Mitzvah. Now the CBGB's is closed, the bathrooms at Maries Crisis' are the WORST in the city. The liquor is watered down and I wouldn't drink from one of those glasses without rubbing purell on the rim.
But then the brilliant piano players begin and the crowd starts to get giddy and then some chubby tragic girl attempts a song from Sunset Blvd. and we all clap wildly even though we know we're only prolonging her agony. The next thing you know it's two AM and you are touched by the old-timers and inspired by the young kids and amazed at the skills of the pianist....and it's just great.

lefty