City & Travel Guides
Tribeca Film Festival dining guide
Now showing: haute sushi, savory arepas, rustic pastas and lotsa cannoli
You’ve got the tickets, you’ve got the festival guide, and now you’ve got…hunger pangs. Why fill up on overpriced candy and popcorn when there’s a glut of great dining options in downtown Manhattan? Herewith, our picks for local restaurants within blocks of theaters showing this year’s crop of Tribeca Film Festival entries.
Filed under: City & Travel Guides || Published in: Metromix.com
Solo love
No date for V-Day? Order up some company at these communal tables.
There’s perhaps only one day a year when some New Yorkers—usually proud to wear their “single” tag as a badge of honor—shrink away from restaurants in shame: Valentine’s Day. But why should only the happy couples enjoy the culinary spoils while singles cower at home hatching plans to poke cupid in the eye with his own arrow? There must be a better bet.
Turns out, there is. Although communal tables are nothing new to New York City’s restaurants, the concept is gaining in popularity, with many new spots deciding to include a communal space in addition to conventional seating.
Communal tables not only promote conversation between adjacent diners, but also save the solo diner from uttering (and enduring) that traumatic concept: “table for one.” Plus, what better way to eyeball your neighbor’s food in between eyeballing…your neighbor. Ah, the joys of singlehood.
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Brooklyn Heights: Heights of Living
With its tree-lined streets and brownstones aplenty, it’s not difficult to see why Brooklyn Heights has long been one of New York’s choicest neighborhoods.
“It’s just far away enough from the city to relax,” explains local blogger John Loscalzo, but not so far as to make one feel isolated from the goings on in Manhattan.
Locals also cite a feeling of quiet and safety, and the beautifully maintained architecture as chief among the neighborhood’s attractions.
Filed under: City & Travel Guides || Published in: AM New York
A Sydneysider’s guide to the “real” Tel Aviv
With more than 200 bars and an even greater number of restaurants and cafés, Tel Aviv boasts an after-hours life that comes close to New York – it’s known as “the city that never stops”. But the task of finding Tel Aviv’s best entertainment can be daunting for tourists. All too often, this can lead to frustration, desperation and a sad settling for mediocrity. As the final whistle blows on a day of play at the Maccabiah Games, why not try one of the activities recommended below.
Filed under: City & Travel Guides || Published in: The Australian Jewish News