Midtown East
Venues and stops in this neighborhood
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6 places · 2 venues · 4 stopsEverything we cover in Midtown East, A to Z. Pick a venue for what is on, or a stop for somewhere to be before or after.
Philippe Delgrange opened this as the relaxed counterpart to Le Bilboquet, his restaurant of the same name a block away. Fourteen hundred square feet across the ground floor and the basement, doing coffee and pastries during the day and salads, sandwiches and quiche through lunch, with wine, beer and champagne if the afternoon goes that way.
Monday to Friday 7am to 7pm. Saturday 8am to 7pm. Sunday 8am to 6pm.
A burger counter on First Avenue that started in the 1950s and has been run since the late seventies by Mahmoud Mostafa, who goes by Jim, alongside his son Abe. Three tables, twenty-three burgers on the board, and the most adventurous topping is blue cheese. The grease of several decades is part of the air.
Monday to Friday 7am to 8:30pm. Saturday 8am to 5:30pm.
Maxfield Parrish's Old King Cole was commissioned for the Knickerbocker on 42nd Street and moved here in 1932. Fernand Petiot mixed the drink he called the Red Snapper behind this bar in 1934, because the name Bloody Mary was thought too coarse for the address. Doors at 4pm.
Daily 4pm to 11pm
Established in 1884, and the reason it still looks like 1884 is that the owner would not sell. A 47-story tower went up around it in the late 1960s and the original building lost its top two floors rather than the whole thing. Buddy Holly proposed to his fiancee here in 1958.
Hours are not confirmed by the operator