Does anyone know a good japanese restaurant in new york?

Karuma Zushi is one of the best - 7 East 47th Street at Fifth Avenue - 2nd Floor. It can be very expensive, but if you go for lunch, the specials are less than $20. A great experience.

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A huge, impressive all-you-can eat Japanese/sushi buffet with made to order sushi and custom made stir fries, and tables and tables of very fresh food is Todai on East 32nd and Madison

http://www.todai.com/menu_hotentresse.html

A restaurant with the real "flavor" of New York is Katz's Deli on Houston Street near Ludlow on the Lower East Side interesting area to walk through (note: we prounounce this Howz' ton not like the Texas city). There are two areas at Katz's - one is self-service and one is waiter service. Definitely sit in self-service - you go up to the counter, order your sandwich and, tip the counterman a dollar or two. He, then, will put much more meat in your sandwich than a waiter will bring you. (A few years ago several reporters went to Katz's with a small scale - some sat in waiter service and some sat in self service - all the self service sandwiches had at least a quarter of a pound more meat).

To add to the New York experience, drink a cream soda or celery tonic with your meal. Sandwiches are big enough to share - get an order of fries and you're all set. My favorite there is tongue and corned beef on a club roll.

Read about Katz's

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Near Union Square: Via Emilia on East 21st Street and Park Avenue. Appetizers are unusual and outstanding - gnocco fritto - large platter of Italian coldcuts served with delicious little fritters; tigelle (not served in too many places) hot biscuits with proscuitto and melted cheese; wonderful soups, good pastas, fish is always fresh. Some desserts are outstanding.

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In the West Village: Da Andrea on Hudson Street and West 11th Street.

Excellent pastas - I especially love their clam sauce, they, too, make tigelle, can get very crowded on weekends.

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In the Village: Sapore on Greenwich Avenue and Perry Street - Lunch here has to be the biggest bargain in New York - $6 for soup or salad, coffee and a main dish, including good pastas - $3.00 more and you can have excellent fried calamari or grilled salmon as an entree. This is a very small cramped restaurant, but, in warm weather, there's lots of pleasant outdoor seating.

Greenwich Village:

AOC Bedford (at Downing Street) excellent food and service

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Great Cuban food at Little Havana on Cornelia and Bleecker

Charming wait staff

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Gene's Italian on West 11th off Sixth Avenue - very good, especially the seafoods and desserts

Theatre District:

Le Madeleine on the corner of 43rd and Ninth serves a good three course prix fixe dinner for $32.- Even better value - 3 course dinner after 8pm - $24.

http://www.lemadeleine.com/dinner.htm#...

West 46th Street between 8th and 8th Avenue (very close to Times Square) has so many restaurants, the block is known as "Restaurant Row". There are at least five Italian restaurants.

One I highly recommend is Becco - it's owned by the tv chef and cookbook author, Lidia Bastianich and her son. They serve a special lunch for about $18 -the dinner is about $25 -three pastas (they change every day) - all you can eat and a delicious appetizer of either a Caesar salad or a platter of mixed seafood with grilled vegetables. It gets crowded - you should make a reservation.

Pomaire is one of my favorites - it's New York's only Chilean restaurant - excellent fresh fish, wonderful bread, charming waiters and a great wine cellar.

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Brazil, Brazil - a really fun place - you have different options - cold salad bar about $10, cold salad bar and hot buffet about $14 and salad bar, hot buffet and MEATS - about $18. If you get the all you can eat meat, the waiters come by with huge skewers of steak, roasts, chickens, spare ribs - if you want some, you turn the flag to green, if you don't want it or are taking a rest, you turn your flag to red. You can also order something a la carte here. Desserts and beverages are not included in the price.

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There is a bar, the Joshua Tree, that serves a very good lobster with baked potato and corn for $15.

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If you like Spanish food (from Spain, not Mexico - it's an entirely different cuisine), Costa del Sol on 50th Street and Ninth Avenue is wonderful - for $25, you get a complete dinner with a ton of choices - AND IT's GOOD! You get a choice of soup or salad - (I never order salad when there's another choice, so I can't comment). My favorite soup is the Caldo Gallego - from Galecia Spain - a delicious hearty soup with bacon, chorizo sausage, white beans, kale and other vegetables; you can also order the cold gazpacho or a chicken soup with noodles. You have a choice of more than twenty entrees - at least six different shrimp dishes - my favorites are the very lightly floured shrimp with wine sauce and the garlic shrimp - HUGE portions. You can also order salmon, paella, a whole lobster with butter sauce, various chicken dishes, mixed seafoods, veal., pork chops. These come with saffron rice and string beans - large platters on the table for everyone. You also get dessert and coffee - the cheesecake is good, but you can have flan or rice pudding or icecream. As if all this food weren't enough of a bargain, if two of you order this three course dinner, you can get a bottle of red or white wine for only $6 more ($3 each)

The best area for inexpensive, ethnic cuisines are in the East Village. Walk down First Avenue - 14th Street to 1st Street and walk up Second Avenue and find something that's entirely different for you (there are Tibetan restaurants, Argentinian, Domincan - you name it, it's there - be adventurous - 6th Street and First Avenue - more than a dozen Indian restaurants - block is called Curry Lane - I don't like any of those restaurants - everything tastes the same, but they are very inexpensive)

Be sure to get to Chinatown in lower Manhattan and, if you have time, go to the Asian area in Flushing, Queens - outstanding restaurants.

And, if you want great pizza, go to Brooklyn - DiFaro's, Spumoni Gardens, Grimaldi's.

Buy yourself the magazine TimeOut New York - that will tell you what's happening in New York for the week - events, sales, shows, movies, museums, etc.

Have a great trip.

For Japanese, I recommend Haru. While it is upscale, it won't deplete your wallet like Nobu would. The sushi is always very high quality, and I've always had great meals.

If you like Korean food, I definitely recommend that you visit K-Town (Korea Town). It is a strip of restaurants on 32nd street right near the Empire State Building.

There's ton of them.

You should specific which area you will be visiting.

Go to www.menupages.com. You can look at various restaurants of all types, in all corners of the city and check the ratings of them.

If you are looking for Sushi, one of my favorite places is this new, small place called Hawaii Sushi on 2nd Ave and 77th St. Cheap and good.