My Urban Sherpa

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

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

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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.

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.

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

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

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 Club

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.

Mandoo Bar $$

Illustration by Matt Rota.

Mandoo Bar ($$)
2 W 32nd St
Between Broadway & 5th Ave
212 279 3075

Small but modern restaurant, look for the ladies in the window making fresh dumplings. Seating for two or four. There’ll be a line, but it moves fast –so is the service.

Goon Mandoo (4 Pcs) $4.99 Pan Fried dumplings filled with pork and vegetables
Vegetable Goon Mandoo (4 Pcs) Pan-fried dumplings filled with carrot, onions, mushrooms and other assorted vegetables
Fried Tofu Fried tofu with special house soy sauce $6.99
Baby Mandoo (16 Pcs) Boiled bite size dumplings filled with pork and vegetables $7.99
Mool Mandoo (10 Pcs) Boiled dumplings filled with pork and vegetables
Vegetable Mool Mandoo (10 Pcs) Boiled vegetable dumplings filled with mixed vegetables

Nearby Attractions
The Morgan Library & Museum
Illustration House
Jim Hanley’s Universe
Empire State Building

This entry is an excerpt from a book compiled by Charles Hively, publisher of 3×3 Magazine on the occasion of ICON5, to share some of the wonderful and affordable restaurants in New York. The book is available for purchase at Amazon.