I’m planning a trip to NYC in May. I haven’t spent any significant amount of time in Manhattan in 10 years so I’m thinking I will spend a couple of days walking around and am looking for some culinary destinations - places where I can grab a snack or a light meal. Ideally they will be places with counter service or lots of takeout, rather than sit down meals, though willing to make some exceptions.
(I’ll also be spending time in Brooklyn with friends but since they live here I’ll defer to them on restaurants for that portion of my trip.)
Do folks have suggestions of places to grab a bite? So far I’m thinking about slices, bakeries, ice cream, sandwiches, bagels, but I eat pretty much everything delicious. I’m coming from SF, so we have a lot of dumplings and tacos, but I’m down with those too if there’s something particularly wonderful.
I’m probably staying in Soho or West Village but want to walk a lot and am willing to travel for good food, particularly if there are 2-3 places within walking distance of one another. Also likely going to hit an art museum or two, so could use recommendations near the Whitney, Guggenheim, or MoMA if you have those.
On the UES, when I visit the museums, I’ve enjoyed sit down meals at Café Sabarsky inside the Neue Galerie. I also have had coffee and cake at the Lady M location around East 70th and Madison.
I also like small meals and snacks as I walk around Manhattan. I haven’t been since 2019, so I’m out of the loop, but one of the small meals I remember from my last visit was the breakfast sandwich at the Sullivan St Bakery location on 9th Ave in Chelsea.
Falafal from Nish Nush (Tribeca), rice roll from Joe’s Rice Roll (Canal St.), pizza from Upside (Midtown West) or Scarr’s (Lower East Side) or Slice Joint (Lower East Side) or Mama’s Too (Morningside Heights), manousheh from Manousheh (Lower East Side), dosa from the Dosa Guy (Washington Square Park). To start you off.
I was at Nish Nush today. What I tend to order all the time and like best there is their falafel trio and some of their soups (the red lentil today was nice). The sabich is the best thing I’ve had at Taim.
Is ice cream something you’re considering? I recommend Il Laboratorio del Gelato, which also has the virtue of being just across the street from Katz’s.
