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DateNew York, NY 10002
(646) 602-6263
Clinton St. Baking Company
Categories:
Bakeries,
American (New),
Breakfast & Brunch
Neighborhood: Lower East Side
New York, NY 10003
(212) 777-1930
Panya Bakery
Category:
Bakeries
Neighborhood: East Village
I'd spent the better half of the day being sick after a dodgy encounter with a fried chicken bento I picked up at Panya, but couldn't resist cleaning my plates at Porsena. How's that for an endorsement?
New York, NY 10002
(212) 677-4380
Ultra
Categories:
Hair Salons,
Nail Salons
Neighborhood: Lower East Side
So yeah, it's totally ghetto un-fabulous and they have the charm of a Time Warner Cable location, but it's $10 for polish that doesn't spill onto my cuticles, and therefore I'll be going again.
(Nail place is on the ground floor; hair salon is upstairs.)
New York, NY 10016
(212) 679-0442
Sarge's New York Delicatessen
Category:
Delis
Neighborhoods: Midtown East, Murray Hill
Hopefully I'll get my $18 back (since I'll never get my 2 hours back), although the girl hung up on me when I called to tell her I needed to cancel the order. I see other comments about the service here and suddenly it all makes sense.
New York, NY 10002
(212) 353-8859
Bikram Yoga Lower East Side
Category:
Yoga
Neighborhood: Lower East Side
It's a hot, sweaty, stinky, tough workout that was happily non-competitive -- everyone was focused on not passing out rather than who was doing the poses best, I think. The staff didn't feel especially friendly as all the other reviews suggested but were pleasant enough.
On another note, is it really necessary to say "namaste" after a class? Hindi speakers must die a little inside every time they hear it. It must be kind of like when Bloomberg goes into El Bloombito mode at press conferences.
New York, NY 10005
(212) 964-6688
Equinox
Categories:
Gyms,
Sports Wear,
Day Spas
Neighborhood: Financial District
The gym itself, as I said before, is great - but management and customer service are embarrassing for the amount of money you pay. These people will never get back to you on anything and when you finally corner them, they swear up and down that they emailed and left you messages (but somehow you don't actually get any of them). If you chase them and get them on the phone, they use that opportunity to turn it into their sales call to try to sell you shit you're not interested in while dodging the real issue at hand. And if you need to cancel your membership for whatever reason, they will make you provide proof of a reason they deem good enough for you to leave: personal medical records, personal financial records showing that you've lost your job, paperwork showing that you've moved more than 25 miles away from an Equinox (I'm sorry but does anyone travel 25 miles to go to a gym?). Uppity, arrogant and pushy.
1 Previous Review:
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5/15/2011
I'm not the gym-going type, and this Equinox location is paving my way to becoming a gym rat.
The place is well laid out, and has friendly, knowledgeable staff. It hardly ever smells like socks/armpit (only exception is when this one guy comes in every so often and I immediately start bleeding from my eyes), and the staff keeps it incredibly clean. Filtered water fountains, minty face towels in the refrigerator, new equipment in perfect working order. Great classes and personal training sessions.
It never gets too crowded here, although I hear overachieving Wall St types come in droves early in the morning, before going to their high-powered banking jobs -- but again, I'm not the type, so I go in for my leisurely workouts later in the day.
Monthly fees are high ($170 or so), but I figure if I spend $170 and work out 5 times a week because I like it, that's better than spending $50 a month and never going because it's smelly and crowded.
New York, NY 10003
(212) 539-0966
Atlas Cafe
Categories:
Vegetarian,
Vegan
Neighborhood: East Village
New York, NY 10009
(212) 228-8011
Whitman's
Category:
Burgers
Neighborhood: East Village
Fries were great. Crack kale was a tad oily but you can't really go too wrong with kale.
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Yelping SinceNovember 2009
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First of all: they packed a lidded cup with ice for my Diet Coke. That's class. And they taped down the lid so the ice cubes wouldn't go everywhere. I wanted to give the delivery guy a hug.
The chopped salad looked so sad and tiny for $10, but then I started eating it and it was just so crunchy and fresh and unputdownable. Everything in there was chopped to the same dimensions. There is a major Type A manning the veg station over there. I salute you, veg-person. Stay anal.
As for the chicken and waffles, what can I say? I started with the chicken: crispy, perfectly seasoned, really juicy. Didn't want it to stop, but I forced myself to put it down and try the fluffy waffle, which came with a maple butter drizzle that should be a standard condiment for all breakfasts the world over. Pretty perfect.