Honeymoon in New York... calling New Yorkers...

Thanks guys.

Nobu's not really my bag as far the food goes, I'm not a big japanese fan

Minetta Tavern looks great though.. Schillers, Pastis and Balthazar are on my list already. I like Keith McNally's restaurants looks. That style's getting popular here.
Kesté too, gotta have some NY Pizza!

Want to check out La Esquina too.

What about bars?
I know the guy behind Milk & Honey, White Star & Dutch Kills, so we'll hopefully hook up with him while we're there and get the lowdown.

Going to pay a visit to the High Line park and stop by The Standard. What else is good in the Meat Packing District?

Hopefully staying down Greenwich Village way.

Heya!

It was awesome. We had an amazing time thanks. It was all over far too quickly though, it absolutely flew by. The weather was fantastic.. mid to high 80's pretty much every day we were there. Perfect weather for walking all over Manhattan all day every day!

We explored everywhere from the tip of Manhattan all the way up to ~90th Street and the Guggenheim/Museum of Natural History, I found a great guide book that told the history of New York and had walking tours based on different eras in the development, so we got off the regular tourist trail and saw more of the New York that we really wanted to see. We explored a different area each day which made being based on 29th street absolutely perfect. Still did some touristy things.. went up to the Top of The Rock, walked through Times Square (and kept walking!), paid our respects at Ground Zero, didn't take a carriage ride through Central Park though, didn't bother with going over to the Statue of Liberty, we preferred to see the things that really interested us rather than tick boxes.


We had dinners at The Breslin, La Esquina, Cafe Select, The Antique Garage and Kesté Pizzeria. Stopped by a whole load of other places for drinks and looked in loads of places I wanted to see and that we'll try to eat at when we go back, there are simply too many bars and restaurants I wanted to see!

The missus absolutely loved New York, she's dying to go back asap! Wants to hang out some more in The West Village and Meatpacking District rather than trying to see everything in one trip again.

Walked over the Brooklyn bridge and had a wander around Dumbo one afternoon, went back over there on the Saturday for the Dumbo Art Festival. Really want to see more of Brooklyn and Williamsburg.

Enjoyed every minute of it, we had to drag ourselves out of the Meatpacking District to get to the airport on the Sunday. Sad to leave, and can't wait to get back there.

Thanks to all of you for your input into this thread, I'll be coming back to it before the next trip.

The wedding day was awesome too and the wife looked amazing!!