Sarabeth's West on the Upper West Side
On Saturday and Sunday mornings (and, often, in the afternoon), restaurants in New York City become flooded for brunch. At some restaurants, people can wait hours for a table. As warmer weather approaches and more outdoor seating options become available, the ritual becomes even more enticing. If you’re in NYC with kids, these are the best spots on the west side:
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A gourmet cup o' Joe at Gimme! Coffee in lower Manhattan
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We’ve already told you about the best places to lounge over coffee in New York, so what about drinkers who could care less about the lounging but are super-serious about the Joe? New York has actually been a little late to the artisan coffee craze that has swept West Coast cities like Seattle, Portland and San Francisco over the past decade, but the city is now home to several notable specialty coffee shops.
Cafe Grumpy: When this local mini-chain, which operates its own roasting facility in Brooklyn, opened a Chelsea outpost in 2006, they brought in two Clovers, the $11,000 machines that give baristas a wide degree of control over each single-brewed cup. When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wandered into the shop to try a cup, he liked it so much that he ended up buying the company that makes those machines. Cafe Grumpy’s sole Manhattan shop is just a few blocks from the GEM Hotel, with two more locations in Brooklyn. 224 West 20th Street
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Bouley TriBeCa
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New York’s Greenwich Hotel garnered lavish critical praise in May 2009 for chef Andrew Carmellini’s new restaurant Locanda Verde, which replaced the lackluster and universally, uh, panned restaurant Ago. But the hotel’s neighborhood, TriBeCa, has four other dining options well worth a visit for a special night out.
Bouley: The flagship of chef David Bouley, who’s been cooking in TriBeCa since 1985, this French-inspired restaurant is best known for its $95 six-course degustation menu that New York Magazine critics declare “ethereal.”
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