Restaurants Perfect For Celebrity Sightings
our suggestions
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L’Artusi
228 W 10th St., West Village, NY 10014L’Artusi can officially go on our list of favorite restaurants in this town. A few things stand out as qualifications for such an honor – outstanding and consistent food, great service, good music, and some ancillary entertainment that comes in the form of great people watching.
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Babbo
110 Waverly Place, Greenwich Village, NY 10011Of all the Batali restaurants, Babbo is the one most aligned with the Infatuation ideals for good eating. Del Posto, Lupa, Otto and Eataly have a tendency to be filled with faux-New Yorkers, which Stang covered in depth in the Lupa review. Babbo (and Casa Mono) are where the real motherf*ckers are at. When we [...]
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Café Habana
17 Prince St., Nolita, NY 10012An amazing little place that’s worth the wait. Quite possibly the coolest eatery in New York City.
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Pure Food And Wine
54 Irving Place, Gramercy, NY 10003You obviously know by now that we’re not vegetarians. At times, this site feels like little more than a lengthy discussion about skirt steak and pork parts. Why then, are we giving so much love to a restaurant serving only raw food? Because while we may not be vegetarians, we are devoted hedonists, and Pure Food and Wine is all about pleasure.
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Topping Rose House
One Bridgehampton – Sag Harbor Turnpike, Long Island, NY 11932We’ve spent a lot of time on this site, and others, discussing The Hamptons and its food scene. While the local produce and seafood are as good as it gets, that hasn’t translated into a more refined dining scene worthy of your big bucks. We love Lunch, Estia’s Little Kitchen and Round Swamp Farm as [...]
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Russ & Daughters
179 East Houston Street, Lower East Side, NY 10002When the lights went out and the water came flooding, we couldn’t help but wonder if this could be it. If Sandy were to permanently conquer lower Manhattan, what would we have missed the most? A bagel with belly lox, cream cheese, tomato and capers from Russ & Daughters, the LES institution of smoked fish [...]
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Barbuto
775 Washington St., West Village, NY 10014A trendy spot, but for a more sedate group…not the hair gel and high heels crowd that you find a few blocks north in the meatpacking district. Simple food, top quality ingredients, a good wine and beer list – all the makings of an Immaculate Infatuation mainstay.
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Nobu
105 Hudson St., Tribeca, NY 10013Some say Nobu is old news, but we say it’s still as good as Japanese food gets. Especially if someone else is paying.
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Freemans
End of Freeman Alley, Lower East Side, NY 10002It’s painful going back and reading a lot of the reviews I wrote two and a half years ago, especially this one. Freemans was not only the first review ever written for this website, but my first stab at a restaurant review period. There was nothing Immaculate about my writing skills back then. Although its [...]
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Locanda Verde
377 Greenwich St., Tribeca, NY 10013An Infatuation favorite, Locanda Verde is a very good restaurant, and it is so because the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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