First off, did anyone else raise an eyebrow at the NY Restaurant Week dates?
Math wasn’t our major in college, either, but July 21-August 15 sounds like more than seven days…
…but we probably shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. After all, we’re looking forward to around three weeks of eating three course meals all over New York City for only $25 per lunch or $38 per dinner! That’s almost pulsd-worthy!
(Almost).
We do $29 dinners *with* wine included, but this isn’t about us.
It’s about the fact that NYC foodies are about to descend upon 314 more-reasonably-priced-than-usual restaurants (and yes, we’ll be among the crowd - purely for research, of course, to find out which are the best and what we need to turn into a pulsd special).
Here are some tips to help you navigate the madness that is NY Restaurant Week(s)!
1) Don’t just show up expecting to go in without a reservation. That might work at times during the off-season, but NY Restaurant Week is definitely the on-season for participating restaurants. You’re about as likely to be seated as the 1 train is to make it from Uptown West to the Financial District in under ten minutes.
Dream on.
2) Remember life isn’t a bottomless brunch and if you try to wash your meal down the way you do ours, there will be (financial) repercussions.
Yeah, we know - it sucks. But it’s better to go in to your NY Restaurant week aware that you’ll be paying for those mimosas than to come out wondering what happened to your fall vacay budget.
3) Don’t try to go every day for every meal. You will run out of either stomach space or patience, possibly both.
Three weeks of 3 course meals twice a day will take a total of days and days and days to eat, not to mention all that time waiting to be seated, place your order, receive your order, get your check, and leave behind the slow walkers.
At most, do one meal a day - and even that, for most, will be pushing it. Scheduling three or four a week, if you’re going to go for the full duration of the week(s), is much more reasonable.
If you’re super hard-core and planning to go for every meal every day, though, definitely send us your photo collage of all that food - @pulsd on Instagram.
#picsoritdidnthappen
What are YOUR top tips for NY Restaurant Week?
Where are you planning to dine?