{"id":1439,"date":"2012-01-09T21:01:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T02:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2012-01-09T21:01:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T02:01:54","slug":"top-nyc-restaurants-location-location-and-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/top-nyc-restaurants-location-location-and-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Top NYC Restaurants: Location, Location, and Location"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Location, as always, matters.<\/p>\n

This excellent Grub Street piece<\/a> explains where NYC’s wealthiest residents (Upper East Siders) eat. It also goes into why top tier Midtown & Downtown restaurants (like Per Se<\/a> & Momofuku Ko<\/a>) have to be so culinarily exceptional to earn those set menu dollars.<\/p>\n

Bundle<\/a> looked at spending habits and explains that NYC’s wealthiest spend their money at pricey neighborhood options:<\/p>\n

In fact,\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0of the places whose clientele consists of more than 15 percent luxury spenders are on the Upper East Side, and all are low-key places like\u00a0Mezzaluna\u00a0and\u00a0Bar Italia\u00a0\u2014 not to mention a surprisingly large number of neighborhood sushi spots.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Less affluent diners in Manhattan (from midtown, lower Manhattan, or outer\u00a0boroughs) avoid uptown and dine at closer top restaurants as an investment:<\/p>\n

When diners do spend hundreds of dollars on dinner at a restaurant in the East Village (maybe after waiting in line, since\u00a0no reservations are accepted), this data shows us it’s likely a significant investment. And the only way a restaurant will keep customers like that coming back is to offer them an exceptional experience with cutting-edge food.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition to non-UES residents patronizing top restaurants, NYC has a huge food tourism industry. Top NYC restaurants are destination dining options for those out of state or out of country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Location, as always, matters. This excellent Grub Street piece explains where NYC’s wealthiest residents (Upper East Siders) eat. It also goes into why top tier Midtown & Downtown restaurants (like Per Se & Momofuku Ko) have to be so culinarily exceptional to earn those set menu dollars. Bundle looked at spending habits and explains that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[299,219,687,956,122,957],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-2","tag-food","tag-nyc","tag-per-se","tag-restaurants","tag-top","tag-ues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}