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Originally posted by xo_kathy
Thank you P-n-C! Please, please, please do NOT go to TGI Fridays or Olive Garden when you are here!!!! I hear of so many tourists who say "Wow, the Chicken Ceasar at the NYC TGI Fridays was so expensive!" You should NOT come to NYC and eat at the same places you can eat at in your own town!
In fact, that website that was posted earlier - the NYC visitor's guide - has a list of restaurants participating in 'Restaurant Week' which is when restaurants offer a prix fixe meal (an apprtizer, entree and dessert for a set amount). The official week is over today, but many of the restaurants are continuing to offer their lunch prix fixe for only $20.04. That's a great deal for lunch in one of these "fancy" places. Make sure to take advantage of those deals or the places that have 'pre-theatre' menus!
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This advice is so good, I'm going to repeat it!! You're in New York - don't do the chains while you're there!! Explore, enjoy! There are so many little quirks (like the doggie basin on one of the Avenues
Third? I forget!), and I only wish you were going when the weather was a bit better.
Katz's is in almost every Woody Allen movie, if you're a fan. Stop at the goofier looking places that real New Yorkers go to, and learn what a cheese danish is supposed to taste like!
This might sound hokey, but fully discuss where you'd like to go with the people you're more apt to spend time with NOW! Don't wait until you're in Times Square and say, "well, now what?" At the same time, be ready to try something that wasn't on the list, should the opportunity arise. TCKTS is great for saving money, but it also takes a lot of time (in my experience).