Can I ask someone, anyone, to recommend some nice but inexpensive and centrally located restaurants in those cities? somewhere easy to get to and that won't break the budget?



UPDATE!!

OK... orgnotes are coming, but in the meantime

in New York we're meeting Sunday 8th April (that's THIS COMING Sunday )

6.30pm Hard Rock Cafe Times Square - in the Lobby area just before you're seated.

-----


in Chicago we're meeting Sunday 15th of April 6.30pm at Leona's Restaurant - 3215 N. Sheffield


-----


in Las Vegas you can check out the Invasion thread


-----


in San Francisco we're meeting Tuesday 24th April at 6.30pm at Chow Restaurant


-----


and finally in LA we're meeting Saturday 28th April at 7pm at The Stinking Rose
[Edited 4/3/07 7:43am]

I like Bubba Gumps at Pier 39 in SF, and Also a place called Joe's Crab Shack, that's across from Fisherman's Wharf, you get a ton of crab for a great price.

Have fun, when will you be in SF??

babooshleeky said:

are they reasonably priced? Bubba Gumps sounds cool... I'll be there the last week in April

do you like indian food? then when in NYC, you MUST go to curry row!

it's 4th street between 1st and 2nd avenue in lower manhattan. the entire block is indian restaurants - just pick the one that looks best to you...they're all good and inexpensive.

also, if you like pizza, try Two Boots Pizza - they're all over the place in Greenwich Village. They specialize in New Orleans-style pizza - VERY yummy tomato sauce and crust, and toppings ranging from traditional to kinda crazy. Also very affordable, and very cute restaurants.

But really - in NYC, you can trip over a rock and find a great place to eat.

Natisse, in SF, go to Little Italy.....on Columbus Ave. (the only diagonal street in SF) there are a whole bunch of nice restaurants.....really cool! It's near Lombard St. (which I know you want to see.....). I was at Bubba Gumps on Pier 39 and thought is was a rip off.....

AH! there's a little italy district in NYC, too...lots of great italian restaurants. just find mott street and you should be in good shape. i don't remember any one specific restaurant that's best...i always just picked whichever was least crowded because they were all good to me.

plus, ya never know who you'll run into in little italy...david bowie and iman live in that neighborhood, ya know...
[Edited 3/30/07 8:44am]

thanks guys! looking for somewhere to organise meetups... thanks again

Natisse said:

Bubba Gumps is pretty low priced...not fast food cheap but reasonable for what you get. And a fun atmosphere.

If you wanna go fancy in LA, go to the Roosevelt Hotel/Restaurant in Hollywood on de blvd.....it's fookin' awesome!!!!!

abierman said:

Hey. I like Bubba Gumps dude!!! You should have tried Joe's Crab Shack!! That was good!!!

The one yer talking about sounds good too, Little Italy, never been there and I grew up just outside S.F. We use to go to Original Joe's Itailan place...mmmmm, yummy

thanks again guys

abierman said:

A block from the PYRAMID building. That's the area Aksel is talking about.

M

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

oooh I use to work close to the Pyramid bldg.!!!!

babooshleeky said:

Isn't it great. You can get porn AND a burrito.


M

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

man.....6 years ago I was in SF with my mom for a wedding, after that we spent a couple of days in SF, staying an Inn on Columbus Ave. Mom, ofcourse, wanted to go to bed early so she went to the inn and I was strolling in that area.....got to Broadway where all the stripjoints are...I was in for a lapdance! Not familiar with SF-lapdances some, some bitch talked me it to getting one from her and her friend in a seperate room.....she said: 'we will get you off.....' as if she knew that was exactly what I wanted.....I must say that it turned out to be the worst stripjoint-experience I've ever had in the US.....cost me a lot of money as well!


I walked out and had a burrito.....

abierman said:

serves u right!!
jk....my friends and I use to go to this club called the Paladium(spelling?) near broadway, way back in the day....late 1980's...those were the days

abierman said:

In a Pee Wee Herman voice...."I love that story."

miss ya Aksel.

M

babooshleeky said:

I never went to the Paladium but I used to go to Club X at the Trockadero Transfer on Utah.
Those WERE the days.

M

babooshleeky said:

damn I bet I saw you there...that's where I saw Sexuality on the video screen first.

grew up in Pittsburg

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

hey was that the club that mazerati played at when they came to the city back in about '85?

in both SF and LA
http://www.thestinkingrose.com/

butterfli25 said:

I think so. I know Jesse Johnson performed there but not sure about Mazerati.

M

I remember when M.C. hammer DJ'd at the Paladium in S.F...damn...
[Edited 3/30/07 13:46pm]

ehuffnsd said:

been there!!!!


Garlic all the way!!!

SF: My favorite place is Millennium but it's in an vegetarian/vegan/raw restaurant. Other places are the Soluna Lounge (Californian), Betelnut (pan-Asian), Zazie's (French), Fior d' Italia, and El Mansour or Aziza (Moroccan).

You can pretty much go anywhere in either the North Beach or Haight disctrict and find good eats.

Enjoy and welcome!

double post.
[Edited 3/30/07 14:30pm]

Arriba Arriba Mexican Cuisine / Hell's Kitchen

51st & 9th avenue.

I eat here alllll the time. The staff is friendly. Great, casual NYC dining (after work, meet up, big group, two people, lunch, dinner -- whatever). Open late, they play popular music, you can talk and laugh and have fun. The Sangrias are goooood. Strong drinks, delicious food. Make this an option if you can.

It can get really loud in here on most nights. So if you have a group they'd blend in.

The guy in the middle of this photo waited on us a few times. He's nice.

thank you everyone for your suggestions!!!

so who's in San Fran and LA and wants to meet up the last week/weekend in April?

Come to Harlem and check out Spoonbread if you wanna get some real soul food.


Oh yeah, and when are you coming to NY again?

NWF said:

just in the process of organising and sending out orgnotes... SUNDAY!!! you got it free still?