Eating Out in New York

Eating out in New York is expensive, much more so than in most other American cities, as visitors have found out to their sorrow. What’s more, in many restaurants, especially the fancy French ones, even if the food is good the help is so snooty to unfamiliar customers that you want to see the whole staff horsewhipped. Let’s face it: without customers, a waiter would be out of a job. Courteous service is as important as good food and pleasant surroundings: and it is possible to find New York restaurants that have all three, at various levels of expense and formality.

The Four Seasons, possibly the best-known luxury restaurant in the country, is expensive; but, if you have the money, you can be assured of grand surroundings, elegant, imaginative food, and help that is intelligent, concerned, and polite (even to guests without reservations and to women eating alone: my spies tested these points).

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Eating out in New York is expensive, much more so than in most other American cities, as visitors have found out to their sorrow. What’s more, in many restaurants, especially the fancy French ones, even if the food is good the help is so snooty to unfamiliar customers that you want to see the whole staff horsewhipped. Let’s face it: without customers, a waiter would be out of a job. Courteous service is as important as good food and pleasant surroundings: and it is possible to find New York restaurants that have all three, at various levels of expense and formality.

The Four Seasons, possibly the best-known luxury restaurant in the country, is expensive; but, if you have the money, you can be assured of grand surroundings, elegant, imaginative food, and help that is intelligent, concerned, and polite (even to guests without reservations and to women eating alone: my spies tested these points).