The Neapolitan Tree at The MET
The Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche
is alight in the Medieval Sculpture Hall of The Metropolitan Museum of Art through January 6.
This long-standing holiday tradition is a favorite of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world. A vivid eighteenth-century Neapolitan Nativity scene—embellished with a profuse array of diminutive, lifelike attendant figures and silk-robed angels hovering above—adorns the candlelit spruce. Recorded music and lighting ceremonies add to the enjoyment of the holiday display.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 5th Avenue, at 82nd Street.
Before or after your visit to the MET, enjoy a wonderful lunch, brunch, soup or snack at nearby Centolire Cafe & Panini, where healthful and delicious meal are offered at equally wonderful prices. Centolire Cafe & Panini is located at 1167 Madison Avenue, between 85th and 86th Streets.
Holiday Shopping
If Holiday Shopping means a new bottle of olive oil, select spices, and bags full of fall produce, head to Union Square. Running from 14th Street to 18th Street, between Broadway and Park Avenue South – Union Square offers the ideal shopping grounds for delicious holiday recipes from Union Square Cafe.
Filed under Children in New York City, Enjoying New York City, Great Sites about NYC, Navigating New York, New York City, Restaurants, Shopping, Vegetarian - Vegan | Comment (0)Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
At The Museum of Modern Art through January 25, 2010.
MoMA is located at 11 West 53th Street, just across the street from one of the best Italian restaurants in town –Il Gattopardo– we hope this week-end you might enjoy both.
Happy Birthday Dirt Candy
In honor of Dirt Candy’s first birthday (or perhpas also for their inclusion in Michelin 2010) Dirt Candy’s appetizers are $5.30 (they served their first customers at 5:30) and all entrees are $10.29 (they opened their doors on October 29), and free birthday cake through the weekend.
October 29, 2009
Filed under Children in New York City, Enjoying New York City, Navigating New York, New York City, Restaurants, Vegetarian - Vegan | Comment (0)Get-away in midtown
Mad46 — offers a skyline view and refreshments in midtown.
Monday through Thursday 5pm – midnight
Fridays 3pm – Midnight
Saturdays 8pm-2am
45 East 45th Street, at Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017
For other ideas on where to eat, shop and play — check out our mobile edition of MyUrbanSherpa.
Filed under Bars, Enjoying New York City, Navigating New York, Nightlife, Restaurants | Comment (0)Candle Cafe
Candle Cafe is a healthful place for you and the planet.
Candle Cafe is located at 1307 Third Avenue, at 75th Street. They serve lunch and dinner seven days a week.
Filed under New York City, Restaurants, Vegetarian - Vegan | Comment (0)McKeown Irish Pub
If you are looking for a Guinness on draught to go with your scotch whiskey and bangers,…McKeown, 1303 3rd Ave, 74th & 75th St.
Filed under Bars, Enjoying New York City, Navigating New York, Nightlife, Restaurants | Comment (0)Centolire Cafe and Panini
Neighborhood locals and museum-goers will now find a ground floor café and Italian sandwich shop in addition to Centolire’s elegant second floor, sunlit dining room with banquet seating overlooking Madison Avenue at 86th Street. The café menu features soups, salads, Panini, open-faced sandwiches and sweets, all delicately prepared from seasonal ingredients, all under $10 per entrée.
Centolire Café & Panini is open seven days a week from 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM.
Centolire Café & Panini is located at 1167 Madison Avenue, 85th & 86th Street on New York City’s Upper East Side. Telephone 212.734.7711
Filed under Enjoying New York City, Museums, Navigating New York, New York City, Restaurants, Vegetarian - Vegan | Comment (0)Konnichiwa Inakaya
Welcome this elegant Japanese restaurant to the South west lobby of NY Times building — Inakaya.
620 Eighth Avenue, New York, 212.354.2195
Filed under Enjoying New York City, Navigating New York, New York City, Restaurants | Comment (0)Historic Bars & Restaurants in New York.
In September 2007, when we opened My Urban Sherpa, we wondered how we could keep up with all the restaurant openings in town. Now we are sprinting to keep up with restaurant closings.
New York may be down – but we’ve been down before. And we’ll get up again.
As a tribute to the city’s perseverance, we’d like to bring to your attention several bars and restaurants in town that made it through worse.
Pete’s Tavern 129 East 18th Street @ Irving Place (212) 473-7676
With cafe tables on Irving Place and a cozy wooden bar with character, this neighborhood favorite has been whetting whistles since 1864.
Russ and Daughters 179 East Houston Street @ Allen & Orchard Streets (212) 475-4880
Reputed for their outstanding caviar and smoked salmon, we love them for making the Jewish delicacies our grandmothers no longer can. Russ & Daughters, a 4th generation family run business founded in 1914.
Katz Delicatessen 205 East Houston Street (212) 254-2246
New York’s favorite Jewish delicatessen since 1888.
The Old Homestead – celebrating 137 years in business.
56 9th Avenue @ 14th & 15th Streets (212) 242-9040
And speaking of steak houses,
Peter Luger Steak House, Brooklyn
Peter Luger has been serving steaks since 1887.
178 Broadway (718) 387-7400
Neighborhood bars who’ve made is past 1929 will also make it past 2009 -
The White Horse Tavern Happy 129!
567 Hudson Street @ Perry & West 11th Street (212) 989-3956
Old Town Bar & Restaurant
Gramercy’s favorite since 1892.
45 East 18th Street @ Park Avenue South & Broadway (212) 529-6732
21 West 52nd Street @ 5th & 6th Avenues (212) 582-7200
The 21 Club, shown above, was built and 1871, and survived in style, the prohibition, the Great Depression and the financial joys and sorrows of the years since.
Please pay a visit to your neighborhood bars and restaurants — it is the best to keep their doors open.
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