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Dig in: A Record 43 Hotel Restaurants Sign On for NYC Restaurant Week with $38 Dinners and $25 Lunches

July 22, 2015/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry Trucco

Two more courses to go.

If it’s late July it must be NYC Summer Restaurant Week — the lip-smacking week in name only that stretches just short of a month and serves up three-course prix-fixe deals designed to stave off summer doldrums (and keep restaurants humming during the slow season).

This summer’s magic numbers are $25 (lunch) and $38 (dinner). More than 360 restaurants are on board including 43 at hotels, a record by our reckoning. Read more

Times Square Francophiles: 3 NYC Hotels Celebrating Bastille Day & French Restaurant Week

July 13, 2015/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry Trucco

Feeling French? But of course. It’s perfect storm time — the Tour de France (July 4-26), Bastille Day (July 14) and French Restaurant Week (July 13-19) rolled into one big week, with a few bits extending beyond. Here’s where to go if you’re in a Blue, White and Red mood in Midtown.

Three NYC Hotel Rooftops Where You Can Catch a Movie and Feel the Breeze

July 10, 2015/in Hotel Food and Drink, Hotels and the Arts/by Terry Trucco

Outdoor movie screenings enjoy a long, illustrious history (think drive-ins). But a hotel rooftop can do the trick, too. Here’s where to catch a flick (and drink something other than Diet Coke) during the long, hot New York summer. Read more

Four NYC Hotels For Watching the July 4 Fireworks

July 1, 2015/in Hotel Food and Drink, Hotels and Holidays/by Terry Trucco

Ka-boom

It’s almost birthday time for one big country, and who needs candles when you’ve got fireworks?

This year’s July 4th sparklers, courtesy of Macy’s, explode over the East River, shot from barges floating between East 23rd Street and East 34th Street. You can see them from anywhere in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, provided there’s no tall buildings to obstruct your view (good luck). But a rooftop lounge at a well-placed hotel all but guarantees a great view (and drinks and food to boot). These four hotels are going all out to celebrate a big 239th for the USA. Read more

Celebrating National Fromage Day at Sofitel NY

June 2, 2015/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry Trucco

In its continued efforts to trumpet All Things French, Sofitel New York reminds us that June 4 is National Cheese Day (news to us, too, but never mind). It’s a fine day for cheese enthusiasts to stop by the hotel’s Gaby Brasserie Française for a tasting with fromage supplied by the estimable Murray’s Cheese. Read more

Biting Into National French Bread Day at Sofitel NY

March 20, 2015/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry Trucco

It’s not just the start of spring. Saturday March 21 doubles as National French Bread Day. (It’s also National Puppy Day this year, but never mind).

A great baguette (crisp on the outside, full of holes on the inside) is worth celebrating, or so believes the French-inflected Sofitel New York. Read more

Chew On it: NYC Restaurant Week — and $38 Three-Course Dinners — Are Back

February 4, 2015/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry Trucco

Dig in.

What do you need to pull yourself through a bleak, frigid, snow-soaked winter that seems endless, no matter what a certain genetically clairvoyant Staten Island rodent predicted earlier this week? Comfort food. And to guarantee it at an agreeable price NYC Restaurant Week Winter 2015 rolls into town February 16 through March 6 with 340 participants, more than ever before. Read more

So Long, Cafe Edison — Times Square’s Storied Coffee Shop Cooks Up Its Final Cheese Blintz

December 21, 2014/in Hotel Food and Drink, Hotels in the News/by Terry Trucco

I swiveled on my worn leather stool, sipping a chocolate egg cream and taking in the scene from my spot at the formica counter. There aren’t many places in Times Square where you can get an egg cream anymore let alone one as good as mine. But come Monday, there will be one less.

Cafe Edison, the coffee shop at the Hotel Edison, closes its doors for the final time when the last customer leaves tonight. Read more

Is Jean-Geoges at Trump International Hotel & Tower the Best Hotel Restaurant in New York City?

October 23, 2014/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry Trucco

It is if you’re going by the latest Zagat Guide. The annual exercise in uber-crowd-sourced reviewing unveiled its best lists for 2015 today, and a handful of hotel restaurants landed at the top of the heap.

Jean-Georges also racked up three stars — the equivalent of an A+ — from the Michelin Guide, the only hotel restaurant so anointed as we reported earlier this month. Read more

Cheers! The Savoy’s Stylish Cocktail Menu That Doubles as a Collectible

October 21, 2014/in Hotel Food and Drink, Hotel Shops and Collectibles/by Terry Trucco

When my daughter was little she had a Harry Potter book with pop-up pictures of Hogwarts, Hagrid, Hermione and the gang that, truth to tell, I looked at more than she did. She’s still too young to drink legally, so people like me must be the intended audience for the latest twist in cocktail culture — the pop-up picture cocktail menu. Read more

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