Before or following the performance of a Broadway performance, or any time.
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Lodi
The chef Ignacio Mattos, owner of Estela and Altro Paradiso, launched this all-day café and a bakery and bar located at Rockefeller Center earlier last year. The location is just outside the Theater District proper; Lodi was created to pay homage to Italian Aperitivo culture and is the perfect place to grab a bite before a show. Antipasti, cheeses, and meats comprise the majority of the menu. However, you can also choose more extensive courses for a second course and one of the café’s famous paninis to make it a bit more substantial.
Osteria La Baia
The chic new restaurant near Rockefeller Center is an ideal place to enjoy Broadway dining. The menu at Osteria La Baia concentrates on coastal Italian food, offering five types of Crudo and antipasti, including the grilled octopus served with wood and includes a variety of barbecued options such as branzino whole as well as lamb chops. For more oversized menu items, the restaurant serves pizza, pasta, and other entrees such as Dover sole saltimbocca and Cacciatora rabbit.
Urbanspace
The new food hall opened inside the AXA Building provides an informal dining option for those who want a quick bite before or post-show. Urbanspace Food Hall houses outposts of a variety of famous NYC establishments, so you can enjoy Roberta’s lobster rolls, wood-fired pizzas at Seamore’s, as well as cakes and coffee of Partners Coffee without ever leaving Midtown. The restaurant also hosts Tomo Tomo Ramen and tsukemen restaurant by the chef Tomo Kubo and his team of The East Village’s Tabetomo and Call Me Pasta, a fast-casual restaurant concept that is part of The Pasta Bar in SoHo, together with other restaurants to complete the list of nine locations.
Aldo Sohm Wine Bar
Before a show, visit the Aldo Sohm Wine Bar for light snacks and a glass of wine. The bar is a relaxed spot to drink wine by bottle, glass, or even a flight, with dishes that have been influenced by the skilled team of the restaurant that has won awards. The name originated from the famous sommelier from close by Le Bernardin. The bar’s wine collection includes more than 40 different wines by the glass and more than 200 bottles of wine on its ever-changing menu. It also offers the finest cheeses, charcuterie, and other dishes such as whole cooked cauliflower, lamb merguez with spice, and a Tarte flambee made of applewood-smoked bacon, onions caramelized, and chives.
Danji
Danji is a Korean restaurant that is a popular neighborhood spot featuring upscale small plates, operated by chef Hooni Kim. The menu includes yellowtail sashimi, crisp vegetable dumplings, and bulgogi beef sliders served with spicy pickled cucumber and scallion salsa, along with other dishes such as braised short ribs stuffed with rice and root vegetables and kimchi-fried rice, bacon, and soy-poached cod topped with spicy daikon. Choose a la carte menu or choose the $68 tasting menu, which includes the best dishes from the restaurant.
Guantanamera
Go to the northernmost part of the Theater District, and you’ll get some of the best Cuban food available in the city. Guantanamera’s Midtown location serves all the most popular dishes, including pernil and Cubano sandwiches to more substantial chicken and fish dishes, as well as beef dishes served with congri, maduros, and other side dishes. It’s also among the few places where you can regularly enjoy happy hour specials on Wednesday, Tuesday, and Thursday, each dedicated to serving a unique cocktail for only $6. The restaurant also plays live Cuban entertainment every night. So, make sure you stop in after a performance to enjoy the shows all night.
Joe Allen
Just a few blocks away from Times Square, Joe Allen has been a favorite for Broadway performers, crew members, and guests for more than 50 years. This is logical considering that Joe Allen’s website provides current show times and curtain times at the theaters located in the area. The casual tavern serves meatloaf and half-roasted chicken with potato mash and burgers. The restaurant is open for breakfast every day.
La Grande Boucheri
With four dining options downtown, you might have had dinner at any of these Boucherie restaurants in the past. However, until you’ve been to this Midtown dining space and you’ve never experienced anything like it before. With more than 400 seats inside the 5,500 square-foot area and 174 seats out on the same size covered walkway that runs along 6 1/2 Avenue, La Grande Boucherie is one of the very great dining establishments in NYC.
Le Bernardin
Suppose you’re thinking about Le Bernardin, an iconic staple of NYC gourmet dining for over 35 years and run by chef Eric Ripert before your performance. In that case, you’re probably not able to reserve a table. However, if you’re seeking the ultimate way to finish your evening at the Theater District, plan and make sure you secure reservations at the seafood-focused French restaurant. Prix-fixe menus start at $185 for a person with four-course menus (or the equivalent of $115 to have a 3-course dinner before the matinee) and can go all the way to $480 for a Chef’s tasting, which includes a wine pairing.
Los Tacos No. 1
The popular restaurant in the city has four locations throughout Manhattan, and, luckily for the show-goers, one of them is right inside Times Square. Los Tacos No. 1 was founded by two people from Southern California and another from Tijuana, Mexico. The casual taco shop offers a primary menu that serves the best carne asada and adobada and tacos with pollo asado available in town. They also do quesadillas, tostadas, and chips with salsa or Guacamole.
Russian Samovar
This restaurant of the Rat Pack has been a fixture in Midtown for a long time, so should you be looking for an authentic NYC evening from beginning to finish, go to Russian Samovar. The upstairs restaurant and piano bar are often packed with live music, and the house-made vodka flows continuously from the bar.
Sardi’s
With caricatures of famous people adorning these walls quaint white-tablecloth dining area, It’s no wonder that Sardi’s has been an iconic Broadway tradition for years. Between the theater superfans, actors that perform on stage, as well as other Broadway professionals who stay hidden away in the back, the restaurant is an ongoing audience both before and after shows for traditional dishes such as French onion soup as well as cannelloni au gratin and filet mignon with reduction of red wine.
Serafina
With 10 locations in the city, there’s a good chance you’ve been to Serafina previously, making it an Italian restaurant a solid bet for a pre-or post-show meal. Serafina’s concept was indeed born when Vittorio Assaf and Fabio Granato were on the sea, and they were dreaming about the perfect pizza. However, the menu is complete with pasta, dishes like Chicken Parmigiana and Milanese, and a variety of appetizers. So it’s a must to go for the traditional pizzas.
Victor’s Cafe
The renowned Cuban restaurant has been a fixture for diners in Manhattan since 1963. It is currently run by the owners’ daughter and grandchild, Sonia and Monica Zaldivar. Victor’s Cafe pays homage to traditional Cuban dishes such as Carnaval salmon, ropa vieja, and Cubano sandwich in a desirable and lush setting that transports guests to Cuba.
