NEW. YORK. CITY: Our ultimate guide to Manhattan!
The city that never sleeps…..
& neither will you if your anything like us! New York gets us every time. So much to do, see, buy, eat and drink! Here are a few of our current faves:
DO / SEE / SHOP .
- The Highline (Start in Meat Packing and walk until you’ve had enough)
- 911 Memorial/Tribute Museum – 911 Greenwich Street
- Levain Bakery – ONLY in America. Buy a cookie and walk to Central Park. You’ll need the walk!
- Wholefoods Market
- Chelsea Market
- Whitney Museum
+ - Your Classics (Central Park, Top of The Rock Observation Deck, Broadway Show, Ground Zero)
- Brooklyn Bridge – Walk from Manhattan to Brooklyn & reward yourself with a take away Grimaldi’s pizza in the park looking over NYC!
- Little Italy
- The 3 B’s: Bloomingdale’s / Barney’s / Bergdorf Goodman
- Greene Street – Soho
EAT .
- Beauty & Essex – (Hidden gem behind a pawn shop) – Lower East Side
- Vandal (Beauty & Essex’s sister restaurant!) –Lower East Side
- Mercer Kitchen – Soho
- Buddakan – MeatPacking/Chelsea
- Bare Burger (“organic”) & Shake Shack (ha “not-organic” but oh so delicious lunch spots
- La Esqina (A hidden gem aka Mexican restaurant below a ‘Corner Deli’) – Nolita
- Tao Uptown (Sunday Dim Sum – Seasonal) – Upper East Side
- Momofuku Noodle Bar – East Village
- The NoMad – Flatiron
- ABC Kitchen – Union Square
- La Sirena – Meatpacking
- Nobu – Tribeca
- Four Seasons – Mid Town East
- Jimmy - The James Hotel - Soho**
DRINK .
- Mr Purple – Hotel Indigo, Lower East Side**
- Le Bain – The Standard Rooftop, Chelsea Highline**
- NoMo Soho – Soho
- Dante – (Australian owned) – Lower West Side
- Catch – Meat Packing District**
- The Gansevoort Hotel Roof Top – Meat Parking District**
- Poco – (Weekend Bottomless ‘Boozy Brunch’ hot spot) – Alphabet City
- The Press Lounge – Hell’s Kitchen**
- Bar Hugo - Roof Top Bar at Hotel Hugo - Soho**
- Top of The Strand – Mid Town West
- Refinery Rooftop – Mid Town West**
- The Empire Hotel – Upper West Side
- The Press Lounge - (Located on the Ink48 Hotel Roof Top) - Hell's Kitchen**
- The Wyth Hotel - The finest view's of Manhattan - Brooklyn**
BREAKFAST / COFFEE.
- Blue Stone Lane (Australian owned, glorious Melbourne style coffee) –
- Two Hands (again, Australian owned & amazing!) – Multiple locations including Mott Street (near Little Italy) & Tribeca.
- Blue Bottle Coffee – Rockefeller-Center, Bryant Park & Chelsea
- Jacks Wife Frida – West Village
- Russ & Daughters – Lower East Side
**Rooftop views