I Want to Be Alone

When solo diners aren’t looking for company.

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Restaurant food poisoning etiquette.

Visiting from Boston on a daytrip to the city. We will be begin a day of walking and wandering at the Guggenheim and end at Canal St around 6pm. If you were to make such a trip(in jeans and sneakers) where would you stop for...

You could try the fine dining restaurant in the Guggenheim Museum. I haven’t been but I’ve heard excellent reports. Bound to be touristy though.

, the restaurant in the Guggenheim is wonderful, run by Martin Beritasegui. My other favs in Bilbao are Victor Montes, in Plaza Nueva (the Merluza – hake – baked with potatoes is sublime), and El Perro Chico, near the...

Cantinone Gia Schiavi di Gastaldi Lino (its address is 992 Dorsoduro, which doesn’t mean much, but is near the Peggy Guggenheim collection on a fairly major Canal)." "You’ll find the place just SW of the Accademia...

a few years ago and which my cousins loved last summer. Tel 041-5230089. Great people-watching. Corte Sconto nearby has been recommended often on this board — mostly shellfish. Across in Dorsoduro, right behind the Peggy...

One of the few places where ``hipness'' (god, I hate that word) and good food are not mutually exclusive is Canteen, an almost thrilling new American grill down beneath the Soho Guggenheim—or more to the point, beneath the...

monzu was in soho, under the guggenheim museum. closed years(2-3) ago. matthew kelly owned, it was fairly good.

checking out this board, just find a restaurant packed with Italians and no English menu. Point at what you want and enjoy. Although it is pre-1900, if you do one thing in Italy, in Florence see Michaelangelo’s David. No...

suggestions for these four days. We are also open to all suggestions for activities. So far we only have plans to see Avenue Q and Nine Parts of Desire. We’ll do the Guggenheim, and maybe National Museum of the American Indian....

He is going to have a tough time of it in Venice, where the emphasis is most definitely on seafood. One restaurant that features meat is Ai Gondolieri, behind the Peggy Guggenheim museum. Very high end ($$$$) and one of the best...

for amazing cannelloni. Vini da Gigio (Canneregio, near Ca’ D’Oro). Ai Gondolieri (behind the Peggy Guggenheim) an elegant establishment serving amazing meat dishes (unusual for Venice). Reservations recommended for all...

I have to say that lunch at the Guggenheim museum restaurant was the best meal we had on a visit to Bilbao last month. I don’t take notes, so I can’t remember in detail what we ate, but it was innovative without being...

Hee-hee—I once went on a blind date with a fairly pretentious guy who took me to a rather splendid party at the Guggenheim museum—tons of food and drink laid on and a good band. I commented on how delicious some...