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There are still no free lunches in this town, but you can get a damn fine one on the cheap. With the success of Restaurant Week, that glorious time of year when many of the city’s finest restaurants offer inexpensive lunches and dinners, many restaurants have kept the prix fixe lunch throughout the year.
Menus are usually Monday through Friday and choices are limited to two or three selections for appetizers, entrée and dessert - so picky eaters should call ahead for the day’s offerings.
The best part? For less than the price of an entrée you get three courses at places with three stars from The New York Times. So casually drop that you ate at Gotham Bar and Grill or Montrachet yesterday, and while everyone thinks you’re money, you’ll have the satisfaction of good taste, fuller gut and heavier wallet.
New York’s Most Debonair Prix Fixe Lunches
Jojo $24.07
160 East 64th Street
New York, NY 10021
212-223-5656
My favorite restaurant of the Jean-Georges Vongerichten empire (16 somewhat distinct restaurants worldwide), this place is quirky-classy. Set in a plush UES townhouse, the focus here is much more on food (of the upscale French variety) and service (gracious and charming!) than Mr. Vongerichten’s trendier meatpacking district joints (think: Spice Market and 66).
Gotham Bar and Grill $31.00
12 East 12th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-620-4020
Alfred Portale lays claim to inventing tall food stacked precariously high, using those culinary rings so everything has a perfect circle. That was 13 years ago, today his food is equally delicious and his restaurant, a New York institution. With tall columns supporting an impossibly high ceiling, a spectacular marble bar and refined American food, Gotham feels oh-so New York and the food is really wonderful, if no-longer groundbreaking.
Montrachet $20.00 (Fridays only)
239 West Broadway
New York, NY 10013
212-219-2777
Now that they’ve redone their Miami Vice-looking interior you can get some ultra-refined classic French food in a setting worthy of the cuisine. This is the place that started it all for Drew Neiporent, owner of the Myriad Restaurant Group that also operates, Tribeca Grill, Nobu and Crush Wine and Spirits.
Tocqueville $24.07
1 East 15th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-647-1515
Co-owners Jo-An Makovitzky and chef Marco Moreira recreated their contemporary French-American restaurant, just off Union Square. The food is inspired the nearby Greenmarket, enhanced by French techniques and served in the same room with the same reverence as if you were ordering their $105 tasting menu.
Bolo $24.07
23 East 22nd Street
New York, NY 10010
212-228-2200
Bolo deserves a lot of respect for serving excitingly spicy contemporary Spanish food.
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