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Best After Hours Place
Dorians
1616 Second Ave.
(212) 772-6660
This is the kind of place that never stops hopping! Even after 2:00 in the morning, this place gets packed. Its also crazy on Saturday night!
Best Cheap Date
Grays Papaya
402 Avenue of the Americas
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(212) 260-3532
Stop at this fun hot spot made famous in Sex in the City. Its standing room only, no seats, but you and your date can share two hot dogs and a drink for under $3.
Best Club
Lotus
409 W. 14th St.
(212) 243-4420
The neighborhoods gone friendly upscale and it makes you want to come back again and again, especially to this high-profile club with a killer Pan-Asian menu.
Best Creative Date
Horseback Riding In Central Park
The Claremont Riding Academy
(212) 724-5100
This is another great way to see Central Park. Rent a horse at this venerable stable, trot around
Best Place for a Laugh
Dangerfields
1118 First Ave.
(212) 593-1650
You can count on the acts at Rodneys self-named comedy club to have a good time. Call to see whos on the bill that night.
Best Place for Coffee and Dessert
Sticky Fingers Sticky Fingers
131 Ave. A
(212) 614-0560
Fresh pastries, brownies, and other sweets galore at this tiny Alphabet City haunt will keep attracting you. Theyre all finger-licking good.
Best Place To Buy a Gift
Tiffany & Co.
(212) 230-6000
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You cant go wrong at this jewelry store. Buy someone special a little something (even a silver key ring) wrapped in Tiffanys trademark blue box and they will be thrilled!
Best Restaurant for a Second Dinner Date
Ida Mae Kitchen N Lounge
1400 Broadway
(212) 704-0038
Dress casual and dig the menu that combines refined Southern soul food with French cuisine in comfy surroundings, and a midtown location. Share a dessert; its more fun.
Best Restaurant for First Dinner Date
Isabellas
359 Columbus Ave.
(212) 724-2100
Their classic food is guaranteed good! This UWS restaurant caters to any taste and youll feel comfortable here too.
Best Restaurant for Lunch or Brunch First Date
Sarabeths Kitchen
1295 Madison Ave.
(212) 410-7335
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Find great food, great people, and a great part of town on a Sunday. Their place at the Whitney Museum gives you a two-for-one location to get to know your date and talk art!
Best Special Occasion Restaurant
Tavern on the Green
1 W. 67th St.
(212) 873-3200
Other location: Broadway
Set in the heart of Central Park, everything about this restaurant puts you in romance central. Request seating in the Chandelier Room, which looks into the park.
TOP FIVE DATES
An afternoon walk in Riverside Park
155th St. to 68th St.
The East River has Lady Liberty but the Hudson has its magic too, especially a walk through Riverside Park, which follows the river. Everyone loves the intimacy of the park (only about a city block wide) and you will too, especially around the ultra-atmospheric boat basin at 79th St.
Any Indian restaurant anywhere along E. Sixth St.
Treat a date to something new and exotic in any one of the dozens of great and cheap Indian restaurants on Sixth St. between and around First and Second Aves. The heady aromas of masala and curry are hypnotizing, as are those gauzy head-wrapped sitar-players in the windows!
Chinatown for dinner and Little Italy for coffee,
Canal St.
Canal Street officially divides Chinatown from Little Italy, and youll never be as happy to see two cultures a block apart and doing their best to make you happy. Theres so much to see youll have a lot to talk about.
Drinks at the Pen-Top Bar at the Peninsula Hotel
55th St. and Fifth Ave.
(212) 956-2888
If you want to feel elegant, glam, like a player on top of the world, take your date to the bar at the top of this ultra-sophisticated hotel. The view says power and romance!
Free movies at Bryant Park
42nd St. and Fifth Ave.
Not first-run flicks, but great oldies projected on a screen in the park on 42nd St. and Fifth Ave. Theyre free and a fun scene on a lovely night with a film buff at your side. Be forewarned: BYO popcorn.
