RESTAURANT ROW

So you’ve been visiting Manhattan with your friends for a couple of days and you guys are starting to get tired, but naturally there’s still so much more to see! It’s about lunch time and you are hungry, of course. I’ll tell you a secret, don’t tell anyone else, so it can still be a secret…

At Restaurant Row, on W 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, you’ll find quite a few excellent restaurants.

It seems incredible that W 46th Street has been able to maintain its beautiful looks just a block away from the agitated and crowded Times Square. From Eighth to Ninth Avenues, you’ll find one of the best restaurants in New York, in an area that doesn’t look or feel like Midtown Manhattan filled with loud tourists and business people at all.

Italian restaurant La Rivista is one of the first restaurants you’ll see when you get to Restaurant Row.

Famous Broadway Joe’s.

Brazil Brazil with excellent Brazilian food and traditional caipirinhas.

You’ve been recently flirting with a sexy Brazilian at work, school or in your neighborhood who looks as hot as Gisele Bundchen or Jesus Luz and you still don’t know what caipirinha and feijoada are? You’re kidding me! You’ll find these and other quite weird sounding names in traditional Brazilian cuisine at Brazi Brazil. The restaurant has a list of very interesting and tasty dishes, such as frango Copacabana, farofa and lula frita, but please don’t you think it has anything to do with popular President Lula, it’s not traditional to fry the president… well, unless it’s extremely necessary! Lula is actually the Portuguese word for calamari. Yes! You heard it right, I really said Portuguese! Contrary to what many Americans may think, Spanish is not spoken in Brazil, and Portuguese is actually the only official language; so don’t try to use that poor sounding Spanish you learned in high school to impress your Brazilian flirt, because you may actually be laughed at. Now just relax and we’ll explain a bit of this cuisine to you:

Feijoada /feiʒuˈadɐ/, /fayzhoo’ada/: a stew of beans with pork and beef meats, it’s considered a national Brazilian dish, brought to Brazil by the Portuguese back at the time of colonization. The name feijoada comes from feijao, which is Portuguese for beans.

Caldo verde: a soup made of mashed potatoes, mashed onions and minced collard greens, served with chouriço, a type of Brazilian sausage.

Coxinha: this appetizer is made of minced chicken and seasonings in wheat flour batter. The shape of it is that of a chicken thigh, thus it’s called coxinha, which is the word for little thigh, because originally it used to be made of the chicken thigh.

Frango Copacabana: sauteed chicken breast in mushroom brown sauce.

Polenta mineira: it’s cornmeal cooked with ground beef and cheese.

Caipirinha: a drink made of cachaça, a sugarcane based rum, which is traditionally served on the rocks with fresh lime and sugar. At summer time, it’s really great to have it blended with sugar and lime, or any other fruits, such as orange or strawberry. I’ve never asked them to prepare it for me as I recommend it here, but I’m sure if you ask nicely they’ll make it for you. It’s worth asking.

Broadway Pub & Club.

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The Ritz is a quite small bar in the neighborhood, and it gets pretty crowded in the evenings. Now I wonder how Madonna and her boyfriend managed to sneak in and out about a year ago, at a party thrown on the second floor.
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Restaurants and Bars by Lucas Eller