Staying at High Line Hotel, where to eat?

Doing a quick NYC vacation!

I liked Fig and Olive on 13th Street. Not far from where you are staying. Fun Mediterranean themed food.

www.figandolive.com

Steak place on 8th Ave, btwn 14 and 15. Outdoor restaurant at Dream Hotel, Pasta Place in Chelsea Market, Morimoto, Park Bar

salinas for tapas

Red Cat (24th/10th Av), Cookshop (20th/10th Av), El Quinto Pino (24th/9th Av) wine bar and tapas, Porchlight (28th/11th Av) for drinks

Oh yes. Red Cat.

Bubbys for Brunch/Lunch

+1 Bubbys

Third for Red Cat (tempura green beans), or maybe Txikito for Basque small plates. Alta Linea looks interesting, too, if it's open, although I haven't been there so I can't vouch for the food.

ALTA LINEA The owners of L’Apicio, Anfora and L’Artusi will open this seasonal outdoor restaurant in the leafy courtyard of the High Line Hotel this summer. Picnic baskets will be sold. The hotel is in a building that was originally part of the General Theological Seminary, dating to 1895: 180 10th Avenue (20th Street).

We're on for Red Cat! Thanks all!

We like Bubby's a lot, too, but they have a new chef, and the menu is much smaller than before. Has anyone been there recently?

We live eight blocks from the High Line, and would you believe I haven't been on it yet? Oy, New Yorkers!

Meme. 11th and Bank. GREAT Mediterranean food. Ate there last weekend, most recently.

Tom,

The High Line is a narrow walkway filled with tourists, which is why I think most locals avoid it.

Red Cat was delicious (the tempura string beans might be in the top 10 things I've eaten), and the high line hotel was a blast. We stopped in to Hauser and Wirth to see Mike Kelley's Kandors, also totally worth it.

dave said:
Tom,
The High Line is a narrow walkway filled with tourists, which is why I think most locals avoid it.

Except that it's amazing and the tourists are actually polite and don't stop in the middle of the street like the tourists do walking down Broadway or 7th in the Times Square area in the summer. There's a main reason why many sights are tourist attractions just as there is a main reason why many books become classics and/or best sellers. They should not be missed regardless of the fauna invading the native species.

Check out The Park, 118 Tenth Ave, there are trees and birds inside, good drinks, funky.

As someone who works over here... anywhere but near here. Everything is too trendy and overpriced! Granted, I'm usually here around lunch time and the thought of spending over $20 on some overpriced food daily changes my attitude.

I'm actually a big fan of The Meatball Shop, which is over on 22nd/9th. As a vegetarian I find their veggie meatballs awesome, especially with the Parmesan sauce. Ovest is pretty good for pizza and related fare as well - some of the appetizers there are quite good. A good strategy is to get a bunch of things and share.

As far as the High Line. You're welcome! Because I totally made it. If by made it you mean keeping the computers working for people that designed it!

Edited for sarcasm...

If you could help make it more like an actual park and less like a fashion show runway, that would be appreciated* (Not that I care too much anymore as my new office is further away now).

qrysdonnell said:
As someone who works over here... anywhere but near here. Everything is too trendy and overpriced! "> Granted, I'm usually here around lunch time and the thought of spending over $20 on some overpriced food daily changes my attitude.
I'm actually a big fan of The Meatball Shop, which is over on 22nd/9th. As a vegetarian I find their veggie meatballs awesome, especially with the Parmesan sauce. Ovest is pretty good for pizza and related fare as well - some of the appetizers there are quite good. A good strategy is to get a bunch of things and share.
As far as the High Line. You're welcome! Because I totally made it. If by made it you mean keeping the computers working for people that designed it!

See, this is where I get to shrug my shoulders and say "I just run the computers".

The third section (when it gets completed as Hudson Yards fills in) is designed to be a little more open, having learned from prior sections. Without actually checking the timelines involved, I think it's the only section that was started after knowing quite how popular that thing had become. Section two is especially cramped, I think that was somewhat because of reacting to people that wanted more plants ("Make it more like a park?")

So are the people there part of a fashion show, or are they tourists? They can't be both, have you SEEN tourists!

ArchBroad said:
Edited for sarcasm...
If you could help make it more like an actual park and less like a fashion show runway, that would be appreciated* (Not that I care too much anymore as my new office is further away now).

qrysdonnell said:
Because I totally made it. If by made it you mean keeping the computers working for people that designed it!

Oh that's awesome. I remember seeing the installation of models and digital renderings at the Museum of Modern Art back in in 2005, and for the life of me I could NOT figure out how it was going to be a park.

Full disclosure, I've used the High Line for my own family photo shoot as well...

But the entire time I was like "where's the actual park?"

qrysdonnell said:
See, this is where I get to shrug my shoulders and say "I just run the computers".
The third section (when it gets completed as Hudson Yards fills in) is designed to be a little more open, having learned from prior sections. Without actually checking the timelines involved, I think it's the only section that was started after knowing quite how popular that thing had become. Section two is especially cramped, I think that was somewhat because of reacting to people that wanted more plants ("Make it more like a park?")
So are the people there part of a fashion show, or are they tourists? They can't be both, have you SEEN tourists! ">

ArchBroad said:
Edited for sarcasm...
If you could help make it more like an actual park and less like a fashion show runway, that would be appreciated* (Not that I care too much anymore as my new office is further away now).

I like the High Line. My brother was in town for a convention at the Javits, and we met for lunch and strolled (Chelsea Market for lunch selections). It's really nice at night, so I hope the OP takes the opportunity to stroll then - we did a similar "mini-vacation" a couple of years ago at the Jane Hotel. Last time we went was last month, when we visited the new Guggenheim.

It is a park, imho, just an urban park. The best part of a park in NYC is the people, and there are always assorted characters on the High Line.

I'm attaching some pictures. The first is a little fellow who landed on a plant there, the second is a "park like" setting, and the third is some art, part of an installation. Oh, and they had the "Lego Building" location this summer, lots of people gathering to build all sorts of fantastical things.

Okay, picture attaching did not go well. This is the second one.

Third.

And Legos.

Believe it or not they are beginning to work on a Lowline Park in NYC, the first in the world. If you google it you can read about it.

And the High Line is where people come from all over the world, to enjoy stunning views of New Jersey. Just thought I would toss that out there.