Clearest sign you\u2019re over-Tweeting: You can\u2019t turn up any mention of when exactly you walked through the sheets and towels at Macy\u2019s en route to and from dinner with a view of the Empire State Building. And we really did eat dinner, after a fashion, in a department store. Blame the Insatiable One for her incessant touting, albeit with disclaimers; at some point you just give in and go out, especially on a night when your consort has to be in the creative-food desert that is West Midtown. How much worse could Stella 34 be than 90 percent of the craptastic places on Ninth Avenue?<\/p>\n
Answer: If it weren\u2019t for the schlep through the merch, you could actually see making this a destination. From a window table, that view<\/a> is pretty 1930s NY. And the pizza was surprisingly good, despite the Olive Gardenesque prose selling it (\u201cwater meticulously sourced from local wells to match the natural spring water in naples). We chose right, I suspect, with the $18 Diavola: \u201csan marzano tomato, salami piccante, mozzarella, pecorino-romano.\u201d The Cat loved the kittybag.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, the other half of our dinner in a department store, the vitello tonnato, really looked like sliced crumpled calf on a small plate with too much fris\u00e9e and too little tuna creaminess. Still: wines are served by the quartino ($12-15 for white, $12-16 for red). And the view is pretty great. As long as you don\u2019t look left or right to see who\u2019s at the next table and how much they\u2019re not even Roombaing but Hoovering. WIGB: Not likely with so many great alternatives opening everywhere. But if I were a tourist . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Clearest sign you\u2019re over-Tweeting: You can\u2019t turn up any mention of when exactly you walked through the sheets and towels at Macy\u2019s en route to and from dinner with a view of the Empire State Building. And we really did eat dinner, after a fashion, in a department store. Blame the Insatiable One for her… Continue reading