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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Haha. Nope, we're just at 27. Based on some of your previous comments in this thread, if that's edging on best dish ever in Calgary then it must be good. I'll assume your best dishes ever were elsewhere. If you only had 1-2 nights in NYC what restaurants would you do? We're doing another long weekend there next month, and could use a couple of new places. (We always do Maya one night, but wouldn't mind branching out.)
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Ha, well, my best dishes ever include things like a bag of mozzarella in Padua, a lobster roll from a roadside shack in Maine, and 4-euro pizza in Naples... so it's not always necessarily a fine-dining restaurant. I think my best ever fine-dining experience was in San Sebastian, Spain though...that town has a ridiculous amount of good food.
Keep in mind I've been living outside of NY for over a year now, but some places that come to mind that you could try Ive listed below.
Zenkichi - Williamsburg. The best Japanese food I've ever had....and none of it was sushi. Did some ridiculous 8-10 course tasting menu, with a sake tasting with every course.
Pylos - Lower East Side. Some really great Greek Food.
Dogmatic - Union Square. Just really awesome fancy-ish hotdogs. Great for on the go, and a location you're always around anyway.
-6th Street between 2nd and 1st Aves has great cheap Indian food. Great lunch specials for cheap.
-If you're there over a weekend, I recommend going to Williamsburg and attending Smorgasburg, a great outdoor food market. It's a little hipstery, but also offers a great view of the Manhattan skyline. Plus you can take the water taxi there, which is a great cheap way to get on the water.
You can always go the high end route of course in NY (ie. Momofuku, La Bernardin, Perse....all fantastic) but I think the magic of the NY dining scene is that you can get really amazing food at reasonable prices. Something that Calgary has not yet achieved, but I'm hoping it will in a few years.
A lot of great restaurants on this list though:
http://nymag.com/restaurants/wheretoeat/2012/