Best Guide Book for NYC?

What is the best guide book out there....

Something that has a list of different atttractions and areas and places toeat etc? There are so many out there, what is the best one? Something not too big and heavy to carry...

Best Guide Book for NYC?

If you%26#39;re coming from Boston I%26#39;d head to your local chain bookstore and get a copy of Time Out New York (the magazine not the guidebook). It will have the most up-to-date listings of restaurants, clubs and bars and things to do for the week, as well as any special exhibits at the museums, free things to do, shopping listings etc.. Then you can pick up a smaller book that has streetmaps and listings of the tourist sights.

Best Guide Book for NYC?

Well, if you want to know where the Empire State Building is, AND the nearest ATM, hospital or shoe repair, check out the Not For Tourist series (NFT). The books are very small and compact, and very, very thorough.

You can see each and every page on line (';they kid you not';):

https://www.notfortourists.com/newyork.aspx

Thanks...

I guess I want to know say if we were headed to the MET, what the best place to eat nearby is..... that sort of thing.

It鈥檚 like asking what the best movie is and then being disappointed when someone comes up with Citizen Kane. You were recommended the 2 best guides in the city. If you want something else then only you can choose it.

I think you need to spend a couple of hours in the travel section at your local bookstore. You鈥檙e question is just to vague and subjective.

Nope, it is not that at all. I am not disappointed by the response. Sorry, but you spoke too soon. There are so many guidebooks out there and al I was doing was clarifying hte type of info that I would be interested in knowing baout. Some just list a bunch of attractions but it would be very easy if there were a list of palces ot eat or attractions nearby other attractions.

yes, specific questions are the best type.

The Met has a very nice cafeteria (much nicer than the word ';cafeteria'; suggests.). Check it out.

Otherwise, you can walk to Madison Ave, Lexington or Third Avenue for places.

If you want a good deli experience, check out Pastrami Queen:

www.menupages.com/restaurantdetails.asp鈥?/a>

Here%26#39;s a great way to find places to eat near attractions:

Go to www.newyork.citysearch.com

Enter the name of the attraction.

When you click to the listing, look on the lower left side of the page. There will be a column that says: ';Find Nearby....';

hotels

movies

bars

restaurants, etc, etc....

Thanks queensboulevard!

Also, check out

www.menupages.com

You can only search by name, cuisine and location (not by feature, such as ';late kitchen'; or ';group dining%26#39;.) You can view the actual menus on line and print them out.

I don%26#39;t know if either of the following is still being published or whether they have a New York guide, but I have used both of them in the past for other cities and, as I recall, they are organized more or less in the manner you describe:

1. ';Access'; series (e.g., ';Access London,'; ';Access Hawaii';) edited by Richard Saul Wurman.

2. Knopf guides (oriented towards the arts and beautifully illustrated, but on the heavy side)

I think that the big problem with finding a guidebook that will give you a great list of places to eat is the time factor. Many restaurants will close, change hands, lose their chef or simply fade in the time between the book being written and it appearing on the bookshelves.

My advice would be to get a good guidebook which shows you where the attractions are, what else is nearby and places to eat (even if they are, inevitably, out of date) and then do an area search on menupages to find out what is current.

Having said all of that, you still need to be cautious. We walked around for half an hour trying to find a sports bar we had read about on the web only to discover that it had closed 3 years ago!

My recommendation for a great guidebook would be the DK Eyewitness Guide to New York available at good bookshops and through Amazon. It%26#39;s portable, informative and packed with photos and drawings.